Improvement in Cake Cutters.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE DI DUIFICATION.
Improvement in Cake Cutters.
We, LEVI WILLARD SNELL, and ALFRED BARTHOLOMEW CHARLES, both
of 41 Lansing Street, Utica, Oneida County, State of New York, U.S.A.
Inventors, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in cake cutters. It is the object of
my invention to provide a cake cutter that will eject the cake from the cutter
when cut, and having a cutter that is capable of cutting a piece from the centre
of the cake; the central cutter being removable, adapting the cutter for use as
a cutter not cutting out the centre of the cake.
In the drawings similar letters and Figures of reference refer to corresponding
parts in the several figs.
Figure 1 shows in side elevation my improved cake cutter.
Fig. 2 shows a top or plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 shows the cutter in side elevation from a different point of view than that
in which it is shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 shows a vertical section of a cutter including the central cutter.
Fig. 5 shows a vertical section of a cutter having the removable central cutter
partially removed.
Fig.
shows a vertical section including the central cutter, with the central
cutter in position for use.
Fig. 7 shows a vertical central section of the cutter (the removable central
cutter and spring being shown in elevation) containing a cake of dough as cut.
Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail in section of the outer cutter-rim, and a portion of
the follower.
Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail view showing one of the springs for securing the
central cutter.
Referring more particularly to the reference numerals marked on the drawings
in a more specific description of the device, 1 indicates the handle of the cutter
spanning the top of the cutter and attached to a cylindrical cutting-rim 2.
The rim may be made in a true circle or irregular or "crimped," as desired.
In the upper end of the cylindrical rim 2 is provided a head 3, provided with
air-holes 3 and a central opening for receiving the removable central cutter 4,
which is slightly conical with its larger end upward. The central cutter 4 is
provided with spring catches 5, secured to the sides of the cutter and adapted
to engage the head 3 within the central opening, for the reception of the central
cutter, and to secure the central cutter. The upper ends of the spring-catches 5
form handles for operating the same.
Secured to the inside of the head 3 at one side of the central spring therein
is secured a spring 6, which makes several convolutions towards the bottom of
the rim 2, and has attached to its other end a follower 7 which has a central
opening for the central cutter.
The follower is concaved on its under face and is provided with a rounded rib 7°
near its edge, and an upwardly-inclined rim or edge 7 directly outside of the
ribs 7ª.
The operation of the device is so simple and well understood that extensive
description is unnecessary.
When the cutter is struck into a sheet of dough the follower is forced upward
against the tension of the spring, and the dough is cut by rim 2. The central
cutter 4 also cuts out the centre, which passes into and through the inner cutter as
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page_text: several cuts are made. The rim 7b and rounded rim 7° only come in contact with
the dough. As the cutter is raised the cake of dough between the rim 2 and
central cutter is expelled.
By grasping the ends of the spring-catches 5 and bringing them towards each
other as far as may be the central cutter is released and may be removed, either
for the purpose of cleaning, or to enable the cutter to be used without the central
cutter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed. we declare that what
we claim is :
1. The combination, with a cake cutter, of a concave follower having a circum-
ferential rounded rib, and a spring for actuating the follower.
2. The combination, with a cake cutter, of a perforated concave follower having
a rounded circumferential rib and upwardly inclined flange or rim, and a spring for
actuating the follower.
3. The combination, in a cake cutter, of an outer cutting rim, a central cutter, a
concave follower having a circumferential rib and upwardly-inclined flange or rim
and a spring for actuating the follower, as described.
4. The combination, in a cake cutter, of an outer cutting rim, a removable
central cutter, catches for removably securing the central cutter, a concave
follower, having a circumferential rib and upwardly inclining flange or rim, and
a spring for actuating the follower.
Dated this 19th dow of Anzil 1909
W. H. MUNNS,
Applicants' Agent.