USRE9774E - whittemoee - Google Patents

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' n H. WHITTEMOR'E,

.Assignor to H. S. WHITTEMORE. Apple Parer, Gorer, and Slicer.

Reissued June 21,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID H. VHITTEMORE, OF ORCESTER, ASSIGNOR TO H. S. WHITTEMORE, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPLE PARER, CORER, AND SLICERE SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,774, dated June 21, 1881. Original No. 93,574, dated August 10, 1869. Application for reissue filed May 17, 1881.

To all whom it mag concern Be it known that I, DAVID H. WHITTEMORE, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple Paring, Goring, and Slicing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, due reference being had to the accompanying drawin s.

I igure 1 is a side view of my improved apple parer, corer, and slicer. Fig. 2 1s an end view, and Fig. 3 is a plan.

The same letters indicate the same parts 1n each.

A is the frame, made" all of metal, which I have heretofore made with metal standards on a wood board. B is the screw to hold it to the table while using; C, the fork on which the apple is placed; D, the paring-knife; E, the slicing and coring knife; F, the carriage holding both knives; G, the slide-rod for the carriage F; H, the screw-shaft, giving mot on to the carriage by the arm I. J is a projection on the screw to release the holder K. L is the crank-wheel, giving motion to both the screwshaft H and fork-sh aft M by gears gearing into it upon opposite sides. is the apple-fork, made with three tines, for holding the apple to be pared, cored, and sliced.

The carriage is made to both slide and turn freely on the rod G, and has aprojeoting arm, I, the end of which fits between the threads of the screw H. r

The holder K is pivoted at one end to the carriage F, and the other is so formed as to hook over the screwH and rest on it, holdingthe arm I into the screw.

At t is a stud, against which a projection, I, on the screw hits to throw off the holder.

The paring-knife D is hung on pivots at the bottom of its stem, and has a spring to press it against the apple, and a stud at 0, resting on the edge a. of frame A, to guide the knife 1) clear of the fork when not paring, the spring m allowing the knife D to conform to the sur-- face of the apple while holding it to its work.

The fork O is set at an angle with the sliderod G, as shown in Fig. 3, giving a taper to the core left by the knife.

. convenient and effective parer, corer, and

The frame being placed on the edge of atable, a turn or two of the screw 13 will hold it firm- 1y. The apple or object to be pared is placed on the fork O and the carriage F turned to place, as in Fig. 2. The holder K falls over the screw H, and, motion being given to the crank, the carriage F is drawn along, bringin g the knives to the apple. If it is desired at any time to release the carriage, a slight backward motion of the screw raises the holder and lets the carriage fall to the position shown in Fig. 2 in'dotted lines, or when the apple is finished the projection J hits the stud 'ion the holder and throws it oh.

The advantages of this machine over those patented by me in 1857 for the same purpose, on which this is an improvement, are manifest: The facility of paring small apples without using the whole length of the slide; the greater security against getting out of order by having the frame all of metal; making the screw or feed shaft separate from the fork-shaft and placing it parallel with it, thus shortening the machine to make it more compact; the power being applied to the carriage through 75 this additional screw-shaft and placed in the position, as shown, moves the carriage better than when the screw is upon the fork-shaft, as in the old way and others, making it a more 8o slicer and when the slicing-knife is removed for simply paring the apple the slide can be more readily disengaged as soon as the paring is done.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The holder K, hung to the carriage F by a pivot at one end, the other end made with a hook or hasp to hook over the screw H to hold the carriage with the knives in position when an apple is being pared and sliced, and allowing the carriage to tip back or unhook when the apple is finished, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the projection J on 5 the screw with the holder K and its stud 73, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the fork G and its shaft with the paring and slicing device, consisting of the carriage, knives, screw feed-shaft mo or driving apparatus, and metal frzunepwhen rights of the frame, and furnished with gearcombined in the manner and for the purposes wheels meshing in opposite sides of said inabove set forth and described. ternal gear, substantially as described.

4. In an apple-parer, the combination of the DAVID H. WHITTEMORE. 5 internal peripheral gear with a. fork-shaft and Witnesses:

the screw feed-shaft for the slide-carriage, par; AUG. A. NICHOLSON,

allel to each other, extending through the up- W. F. HELLEN.

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