US915577A

US915577A - Culinary utensil.

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Publication number: US915577A
Application number: US42707808A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edwin T Farmer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-04-14
Filing date: 1908-04-14
Publication date: 1909-03-16
Anticipated expiration: 1926-03-16

Description

E. T. FARMER.

CULINARY UTENSIL.

APPLIoATIoN FILED APR.14,`19 0s.

915,577. l Patented Ma1-.16,1909.

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UNTE SAFE@ ATENT FFC.

EDWIN T. FARMER, OF CARTHAGE, MISSOURI.

CULINARY UTENSIL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWIN T. FARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carthage, in the county of Jasperv and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Culinary Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in culinary utensils, being particularly directed to an implement in the use of which the mashing of vegetables, such as potatoes, may b e accomplished in an efficient and expedit1ous manner.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a potato masher in which the operative sectionis constructed entirely of a single length of material so divided as to impart two distinct crushing operations to the material in a single movement of the implement.

The invention will be described in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which l Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a potato masher constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line 2-2 of Fig. l.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, my improved potato masher is made up in so far as the operating parts are concerned of a single length of material, as a section of wire 1.

In the form illustrated the material is bent at one end to provide a handle loop 2, from which the material is projected for an appropriate distance to provide a stem 3. At the lower end of the stem the material is bent in the form of a helical spring 4, the coils 5 of which increase in diameter respectively toward the lower end of the spring, the relative sizes of the respective coils being immaterial except that they must be of such size that each particular coil is adapted to fit within the next lower adjacent coil when pressure is applied, so that in so far as the spring portion of the implement is concerned pressure upon the lowermost coil, or upon the handle, will cause the respective coils to fit one within the other and present a single face at the bottom of the spring having a series of convoluted strands. From the lowermost coil of the spring section the material is projected in the form of an extended coil 6, the diametricallyopposite portions of which are on a plane at Specification o Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14, 1908.

Patented Marc-l1 16, 1909.

Serial No. 427,078.

an angle to the vertical plane of the implement so that the terminal of the coil 6 is spaced from the initial point thereof a distance greatly in excess of the distance between the coils 5 of the spring ll. At the terminal ofthe coil 6 the material is formed into a main spring portion 7, in the formation of which portion the material is made up of a series of convolutions 8 disposed in the same plane, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The juncture of the coil 6 with the first or main convolution of the spring portion 7 is preferably secured against accidental displacement by a clip 9, so as to maintain the convolutions 8 in a horizontal plane. The main spring portion 7 constitutes what will'be hereinafter termed the main crushing section of the implement, while the spring portion l constitutes what will be hereinafter termed the auxiliary crushing portion of the implement. By virtue of the extended coil 6 disposed between the main and auxiliary crushing portions, it is obvious that in use pressure applied to the handle portion of the implement will cause the auxiliary crushing portion thereof to be forced downward onto the main crushing portion, the coils of the auxiliary crushing portion under the essential pressure arranging themselves in a proximately a horizontal plane and there y forming in eifect an auxiliary crusher, which, at the point of its most eiiicient operation, is practically a duplicate of the main crusher, except that the convolute lengths of the auxiliary crusher when so arranged are much closer together than are the convolute lengt-hs of the main Crusher.

The use of the implement is obvious, it being understood that pressure applied to the handle portion will secure an initial though somewhat coarse mashing of the material by the engagement of the main crushing portion with such material. Continued pressure subjects the material, initially operated on by the main Crusher and forced between the convolutions of said main crusher, to the action of the auxiliary crusher. `A double crushing action is thus effected in a single movement of the implement, and by virtue of this double action the material is more efliciently and quickly reduced to the desired state than would otherwise be the case.

While preferring that the implement be constructed of a single length of material throughout, it is, of course, obvious that the present invention will be equally eilective by inserting the stem 3 of the implement in auxiliar)T handle member of wood or other material.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is: n

l. A potato crusher including a main crushing section and an auxiliary crushing section, said sections being arranged one below the other for successive ei'l'ect upon the material in the operation of the crusher.

2. A potato Crusher including a main crushing section and an auxiliary crushing section, said sections being arranged in superimposed relation, and a spring connection between the sections.

3. A potato Crusher comprising a main crushing section including a spring member having the convolutions arranged in the same plane, and an auxiliary crushing section including a spring member of helical form, the main auxiliary crushing sections being arranged in superimposed relation.

4. A potato masher made up of a single length of material formed to provide a stem, a helical spring member, an open spring coil below said spring member, and a crushing member of convolute form arranged below the helical spring member and having the convolutions arranged in the same plane.

5. A potato Crusher including a handle, an auxiliary crushing section carried at the lower end ol' the handle, and a main crushing section arranged below and carried by the auxiliary crushing section.

A potato crusher including h andle, an auxiliary crushing section arranged at the lower end of the handle, a main crushing section arranged below the auxiliary crushing section, and a spring connecting the main and auxiliary crushing section.

7. A potato crusher comprising a handle, an auxiliary crushing section arranged at the lower end of the handle and including a spring member of helical form, and a main f crushing section arranged below and carried by the auxiliary crushing section, said main crushing section including a spring member having the convolutions arranged in the same plane.

In testimony whereof l allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN T. FARMER. Witnesses:

J. H. l"iYrLBUr-z,

H. F. GRIDER.