An Improved Vegetable and Fruit Washing Device.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 18th Sept., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vegetable and Fruit Washing Device.
I, FRIEDRICH BERNHARD HEINICKE of 23, Hauptstrasse, Leipzig-Gohlis in the
Empire of Germany, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object a vegetable washing device which allows more
particularly of salad and other vegetables, fruit and the like being very
conveniently and rapidly cleansed.
Such a device is shown in the accompanying drawings from which the essential
points and construction of the vessel may be clearly seen.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of the device with a sieve or strainer arranged
therein.
Figure 2 is a view of the sieve or strainer.
Figure 3 an elevation of the sheet metal vessel.
The device consists essentially of a sheet metal pan or vessel, Figure 3, in which
a sieve or strainer, Figure 2, is placed, the form of which is suited to the form of
the pan. The strainer or net is of course made somewhat smaller so as to allow
of its being conveniently inserted and a space is provided between the bottom of
the sieve and the bottom of the pan by the arrangement of small feet a as shown
in Figure 1, in order to allow the washed off dirt to easily and completely
accumulate.
After the sieve placed in the pan filled with water has been filled with the
vegetables to be cleaned the apparatus is vigorously shaken several times by its
handles b, and the contents are thereby shaken or turned over so that all dirt adher-
ing to the vegetables or fruits is removed and passing through the sieve is
deposited on the bottom of the vessel.
Fruit may be sufficiently cleaned by slowly pouring water over it, any leaves
adhering thereto float to the top and are there easily scooped off. The dirty water
may then if desired be poured off and replaced by clean and the sieve containing
the fruit again placed in the same for re-washing. It usually suffices in the case
of fruit, potatoes and the like to merely pour the water over them.
The sieve may of course be coarse or fine according to the kind of fruit, and it
may also be used for drying the vegetables by shaking or swinging them in the
sieve alone after they have been washed. For this purpose a lid or cover is
necessary which may be added to the apparatus if desired.
A simpler form, of the apparatus consists in providing a removable sieve over
the bottom of the pan.
It is self evident that the pan may be of any suitable form and be made of any
suitable material such as sheet iron, zinc, enamelled iron, porcelain, earthenware
or the like.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A device for washing fruit, vegetables or the like, consisting of an unper-
forated vessel (Figure 3) having a sieve at a certain distance above its bottom
substantially as herein before set forth.
2. A device for washing fruit, vegetables and the like, consisting of a sieve
arranged within an unperforated vessel to partially or wholly cover the inside of
the vessel whilst leaving an interstice between the sieve and the walls of the vessel,
substantially as herein before set forth.
3. The construction and combination of parts taken as a whole forming the
improved device for washing fruit, vegetables and the like, substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this ath
1907
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.