Improvements in Choppers for Culinary Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Choppers for Culinary Purposes.
We, JOHN HENRY WELLS 5 Byrne Road, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton.
Managing Clerk, and GEORGE RHODES 44 Oxley Street Wolverhampton
Umbrella Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
follows:-
be as.
A handy chopper substantially as per drawings, for easily chopping such domestic
substances or stuffs, as parsley, mint, ingredients for stuffings, or salads, consisting
of two, or more metal knives placed with their sharp edges downwards, and fixed
in a frame of wood or metal or any other substance we may choose to employ; the:
whole being surmounted by a handle which may be grasped easily by the hand.
The universal method now in force is to chop such substances as the above
mentioned with an ordinary table knife by holding the two extremities of it with
both hands; the improvement in our invention on this ordinary method, both as.
regards ease and speed, will be apparent, for the chopper can be used with one
hand, and each chop will cut with a greater proportion of effect according to the-
multiplicity of knives we may adopt. It will also remove a source of danger
which prevails under the present method of cutting the fingers while using a
common knife.
We reserve to ourselves the privilege of making the frames of any shape and to
use more than one substance in them if necessary, and we may fix or set the knives.
to the frame in any manner whatever.
As regards the shape of the knives they may be straight as shewn in drawing A
or curved as in drawing B, and the position of the knives may be with the length
of the blades running across the frame at right angles with the axis of handle or
they may be placed in any other position we may choose to adopt.
In drawing C we shew other styles of frames that may be adopted together with
different positions of the knives or blades. For convenience in drawings A and B.
we shew 4 blades or knives as a nominal number.
The handle we use is an ordinary one.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1891
JOHN HENRY WELLS.
GEORGE RHODES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Choppers for Culinary Purposes.
We, JOHN HENRY WELLS, 5 Byrne Road, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton
Managing Clerk, and GEORGE RHODES 44 Oxley Street Wolverhampton
Umbrella Maker, 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 :-
A handy chopper, substantially as per drawings for easily chopping, and mincing
such domestic substances or stuffs as parsley, mint, and other herbs used as
ingredients for stuffings and salads, or for mincing suet:-consisting of 2 or more
metal knives placed with their sharp edges downwards and fixed in a frame of wood
or metal or any substance we may choose to employ; the whole being surmounted
by a handle which may be grasped easily by the hand.
In using the chopper the herbs or stuffs are placed upon an ordinary domestic
chopping board or table, the chopper is held in the operator's hand, and the stuffs

page_text: are cut through or minced by continued upright forcible chops, the knives passing
through the stuffs until they make contact with the board.
The universal method, now in force is to chop such substances or stuffs as those
before mentioned with an ordinary table knife by holding the two extremities of it
with both hands. The improvement in our invention on this ordinary method
both as regards case & speed will be apparent for the chopper can be used with
one hand, and each chop will cut with a greater proportion of effect according to
the multiplicity of knives we may adopt. It will also remove a source of danger
which prevails under the present method of cutting the fingers while using a common
knife.
We reserve to ourselves the privilege of making the frames of any shape & to use
more than one substance in them if necessary and we may fix or set the knives to
the frame in any manner whatever.
.
The object of this invention is to effect a saving of the time occupied in mincing
domestic stuffs by providing a multiplicity of cutting edges and this we do eitber
by using 2 knives of any bent or curved form that will gain a multiplied area of
cutting edges (as compared with straight knives) as shewn in drawings E, or by
using 3 or more knives of straight shape as shewn in drawings A, of curved shape
as in drawings B or of any other form we choose to adopt.
The shape of knives as mentioned in foregoing paragraph refers to them as they
appear in plan. Their cutting edges in elevation may be a uniform straight line as
underside of Fig. 1 in drawings F, or curved as underside of Fig. 2 drawings F.
The position of the knives may be with the length of the blades running across
the frame at right angles to the axis of handle, or they may be placed in any other
position we may choose to adopt.
In order to give an idea that different styles of frames & positions of knives may
be adopted under this Specification we include drawings C and D.
The handle we use is an ordinary one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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A chopper which may be used with the hand containing 2 knives of bent or
curved shape or 3 or more knives of straight, curved, or other shape as sub-
stantially described in the foregoing Specification, fixed and set to a frame in any
manner whatever, the whole being surmounted by a handle, for the purpose of
chopping or mincing domestic stuffs as mentioned upon an ordinary chopping board
or table.
Dated this 26th day of March 1892
JOHN HENRY WELLS.
GEORGE RHODES.