A Fruit or Vegetable Parer or Scraper, or a Combined Parer or Scraper and Slicer.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Fruit or Vegetable Parer or Scraper, or a Combined Parer or
Scraper and Slicer.
I, CHARLES JACOB BROWETT, General Manager of the firm of Griffiths and
Browett, Limited of Bradford Street, in the City of Birmingham (a communication
from abroad by R. Hewetson, of Broadway, New York, United States of America)
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an instrument or apparatus for both paring, scraping
and slicing fruit or vegetables, although the paring and scraper parts, may be
used independent of the slicer.
The said instrument which is made from thin sheet steel, is made of a figure some-
what resembling a spoon, and with the bowl or head part pierced, with obliquely
directed grating shaped openings, with knife edges directed immediately contiguous
to the fronts of the said piercings.
The other or after end, terminating the shank or handle part, has a slicer, as
hereinafter described, whilst the side of the fore part has a lipped cutter, for
the removal of the eyes from vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots and the like.
Thus, the bowl or head part which is convex concavo, and flattened upon its
outer side, is square shaped, with the middle part crosswise pierced with inclined
openings, with portions of the outside or front boundary edges of the metal of them
turned downwardly into inclined cutters, lips or scraping burrs, which when ground
flat, form cutter or scraper edges, projecting a little beyond the under convexed
surface, of the bowl or head part as aforesaid.
The said metal at the front boundary edges of the openings, which are the back
edges to the bars intervening between the openings, may be directed below the under-
side of the bowl, to a greater or less degree according to the cutter required,
but in every case, the said cutters must be made to rake rearwardly, so that when
the instrument is used, the same is drawn from front to back over the vegetable or
fruit to be pared or scraped.
The parings or scrapings, pass away upwardly through the piercings, and are led
that way by the raking back of the cutting edges.
The eye remover consists of a convex-concavo shaped spout, encircled by a
cutting edge.
The slicer at the after end of the instrument, consists of a cross piercing,
with the metal at the middle of the after of it, bulged upwardly, forming an
arched shaped opening, with the boundary edge, contiguous to the piercing ground
flat into a cutting edge.
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Slicing is performed by drawing the said after part in contact with a fruit
or vegetable to be sliced, when the cut off portions pass rearwardly through
the arched shaped opening.
The said after part of the instrument, is preferably shaped concave, alike unto
the figure of a shoe horn.
с A 1000
CHARLES JACOB BROWETT,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant:

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Fruit or Vegetable Parer or Scraper, or a Combined Parer or
Scraper and Slicer.
I CHARLES JACOB BROWETT, General Manager of the firm of Griffiths and
Browett Limited, of Bradford Street, in the City of Birmingham, (a communication.
from abroad by R. Hewetson, of Broadway, New York, United States of America)
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 relates to an instrument or apparatus for both paring, scraping.
and slicing fruit or vegetables, although the paring and scraper parts, may be used!
independent of the slicer.
The said instrument, which is made from thin sheet steel, is made of a shape
resembling somewhat that of a spoon, and with the bowl or head part pierced with
obliquely or other directed grating-shaped openings, with knife edges directed
immediately contiguous to the fronts of the said piercings.
The other or after end, terminating the shank or handle part, has a slicer, as
hereinafter described, whilst the side of the fore part has a lipped cutter, for the
removal of the eyes from vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, and the like.
Thus the bowl or head part, which is convex concavo, and flattened upon its
outer side, is square shaped, with the middle part crosswise pierced with inclined!
openings, with portions of the outside or front boundary edges of the metal of
them turned downwardly into inclined cutters, lips or scraping burrs, which when
ground flat, form cutter or scraper edges, projecting a little beyond the under
convexed surface of the bowl or head part as aforesaid.
The said metal at the front boundary edges of the openings, which are the back
edges to the bars intervening between the openings, may be directed below the
underside of the bowl, to a greater or less degree, according to the cutter required,
but in every case, the said cutters must be made to rake rearwardly, so that when
the instrument is used, the same is drawn from front to back over the vegetable or
fruit to be pared or scraped.
The parings or scrapings pass away upwardly through the piercings, and are led
that way by the raking back of the cutting edges.
The eye-remover consists of a convex concavo shaped spout, encircled at front by
a cutting edge.
The slicer at the after end of the instrument consists of a piercing, with the metal
at the middle at the after part of it, bulged upwardly, forming an arched shaped
opening, with the boundary edge contiguous to the piercing ground flat into a
cutting edge.
Slicing is performed by drawing the said after part in contact with a fruit or
vegetable to be sliced, when the cut-off portions pass rearwardly through the arched
shaped opening.
The said after part of the instrument, is preferably shaped concave, alike unto
the figure of a shoe horn.
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Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a plan of a combined
instrument, for the paring, scraping, and slicing of fruit, potatoes and other like
edibles.
The parer or scraper part or parts of the instrument, are fashioned from the
bowl, whilst the slicer part is made from out of the end. of the handle.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section of the said instrument, and shown in
use as a parer.
Figure 3 shows one of the parer or scraper cutters upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 4 is a transverse section on the dotted lines A. B. Figure 1, whilst
Figure 5 is a transverse section on the dotted lines C. D.

page_text: Figure 6 is the slicer end of the instrument turned over, whilst
Figure 7 is a section of the same upon the dotted lines E. F.
a is the bowl or front part of the instrument made sunken or alike unto a square
bowl. bare slicer or scraper knife edges, slightly raking downwards, and forming
the front boundary edges to the grating shaped gaps or clearances c, wherethrough
the paring or scraping upwardly and outwardly passes. One side of the bowl or
head of the said instrument has a lip shaped cutter d, for the removal of the "eyes"
of potatoes, or like sinkings in fruit and other edibles.
e is the concaved stem of the instrument, terminated by a bridge shaped ende,
with the boundary edge e³, formed into a knife cutting edge, adjacent to the
clearance piercing e, of the after end e¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
First: A combined scraper, parer, and slicer for fruit, vegetables and other like
edibles, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-A combined vegetable, fruit and the like parer, scraper and slicer
made from thin sheet steel, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly:
:-A combined vegetable, fruit or the like parer, scraper, slicer
and "eye" remover made from thin sheet steel, substantially as described and
set forth.
Dated this 11th day of November 1892.
CHARLES JACOB BROWETT,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant..