Year: 1895

page_text: I, FELIX CARRIER, of No. 6 Rue Bautte, Geneva, in the Republic of Switzerland,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of an implement principally intended to be used by
people having defective teeth with a view of hashing or masticating by hand at table
those aliments which necessitate such mastication.
The apparatus may be used in the kitchen in place of the well-known hashing-
machines with a view of preparing the meat for the cooking. My improved
hashing-implement will be very useful for sick or old people and for travellers.
My improved hashing or masticating implement is formed of two handles hinged
to one another and having their upper ends formed like a comb and the teeth of one
of these combs being adapted to be engaged within those of the other comb. Each'
tooth of the one comb is formed so as to exactly fill out the space between two
teeth of the other comb and vice-versa and their edges are sharpened so that if
a piece of meat or other aliment is engaged between the said combs it will be hashed
to pieces by the sharp edges of the combs and pressed by the teeth of one of the
said combs through the slots of the other one if the handles are pressed one toward
the other. There is further provided a spring which is intended to reopen the tool
after the handles of the same have been pressed together. The implement may
further be provided with a latch of any suitable description to hold it closed when
not in use.
The teeth of the combs will preferably be provided with one or more series of
recesses or outcuts with the object of preventing the aliment acted upon by the
combs, from sliding along the said teeth instead of being seized and cut off by
the same.
The number of the teeth of each comb may be varied at will and the handles
may be made of any suitable shape whatever and provided with suitable designs or
ornaments.
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1005
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Hashing or Masticating Instrument.
I, FELIX CARRIER of No. 6 Rue Bautte, Geneva, in the Republic of Switzerland,
Clergyman, 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 consists of an apparatus designed to artificially masticate food stuffs.
The improved apparatus in no way resembles the hashing machines as employed
for kitchen purposes.
It is composed of a kind of hand-pincers which may be
constructed and finished in any suitable manner, in order that it may be placed on
the table like a knife or a fork. The improved instrument will be found of great
service to aged persons and invalids.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown by way of example a simple form of
the improved masticator.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the instrument with its teeth and handle arms
open and
Figure 2 shows the two handle arms closed and held in position by a closing
device.
The instrument is composed of two arms or handles A and B connected by a
hinge C and having their extremities male in form of a comb or a series of blades,
which cross each other and the blades A¹ passing between the blades B' and
vice versa. The blades of each arm are sharp edged and fill up exactly the intervals
between the blades of the other arm when the instrument is closed. It therefore
follows that the food stuffs placed between the series of blades A' and B' are
minced thereby when the instrument is closed, that is. to say when the handles A
and B are pressed together. The food stuffs thus minced or masticated fall at
each side of the instrument across the intervals of the said blades.
A spring D tends to separate the handles, A and B from each other after each
operation.
The instrument is completed by a closing device which consists of a lever E
pivotally connected to and retained by a pin e at the extremity of the handle B.
A small transverse bar d passing at right angles to the locking lever and forming
a rigid part thereof, serves to maintain the instrument in its closed position during
the time it is not in use, by engaging into the curved extremity of the handle A.
The said bar d also serves to facilitate the opening when desired. This kind of
closing device is preferable to any other because the opening movement is effected
inside and does not therefore interfere in any way with the working operation of the
apparatus when the same is open.
The notches a' of the blades of the instrument serve to prevent the food stuffs
from sliding along the said blades instead of being seized by them.
The number and the shape of the blades, as well as their position either transverse
or inclined, may of course be varied as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
:-
1. A masticator the characteristic features of which are the combination of arms
or handles, such as A and B, with combs, such as A' and B₁, formed by blades
with sharp edges, these blades crossing each other in such a manner that the blades
of each of the said combs exactly fill the interval between the blades of the other
when the instrument is closed.
2. In a masticator such as that described in the first claim, notches, such as a¹,
erving to prevent the food stuffs from sliding along the blades.

page_text: 3. In a masticator such as described in the first claim the combination of the
handles A and B with a spring D.
4. In a masticator such as hereinbefore described, a closing device pivotally
connected to one handle and capable, by means of a small transverse bar, of holding
the instrument in its closed position.
Dated this 21st day of February 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.