Improvements in Apparatus for Slicing and Cutting Vegetables and Fruits.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Slicing and Cutting Vegetables and
Fruits.
[ WILLIAM HERBERT DAWSON of 65 Monton Road, Eccles near Manchester,
Salesman do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a hand tool whereby the whole of a
potatoe or other vegetable or an apple or other fruit may be sliced at one operation
or may be similarly cut into chips or strips-and consists of a by preference
rectangular frame supporting the necessary blades or cutters at the desired distances
apart, in the case of the slicing apparatus and of a similar frame supporting the
cross-blades set at right-angles to each other in the case of apparatus for cutting into
chips or strips-These cutter frames are arranged to act as hand stamping dies
(which are interchangable) being supported in use in a detachable handle fitted
with a socket similar to a joiner's brace or with a scrow clamping socket arranged
upon the ferrule of the handle. The same handle can be utilised for supporting an
apple corer a potatoe-parer and other tools now used separately and thus my
improved apparatus constitutes a multiple band tool for various culinary operations.
In the case of my improved slicing apparatus I sometimes affix the frame to a
suitable base and arrange that the vegetable shall be sliced by being forced between
the blades by suitable blocks operated by a hand lever.
Dated this 12th day of March 1889
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Slicing and Cutting Vegetables and
Fruits.
1 WILLIAM HERBERT DAWSON of 65 Monton Road, Eccles near Manchester
Salesman do hereby declare the nature of my said invontion and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement
The object of this invention is to construct a hand tool whereby the whole of a
potato or other vegetable or an apple or other fruit may be sliced at one operation
or may be similarly cut into chips or strips-the cutter frames of which apparatus
are arranged to act as hand stamping dies (which are interchangable) being
supported in use in a detachable handle. The same handle can also be utilised for
supporting an apple-corer, a potato-parer and other tools now used separately and
thus my improved apparatus constitutes a multiple hand tool for various culinary
operations.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of my improved
slicing and cutting apparatus complete as a hand-tool. It consists of a by preference
rectangular metallic frame a-illustrated separately (on a larger scale) by inverted
plan view in Fig. 2 and by transverse section Fig. 3-across which frame are affixed
the necessary steel blades or cutters 6 parallel to each other at the desired distances
apart in the case of the slicing apparatus (see plan view Fig. 2.) or supporting cross
blades e as illustrated in separate plan view Fig. 4-set at right angles to each other
or in cellular form in the case of apparatus for cutting vegetables or fruits into chips
or strips.

page_text: These metallic frames a are themselves supported in use in a frame d provided
with a shank e capable of fitting into the screw clamping socket of a detachable
handle y or similar to that employed in a joiners brace.
In this manner I provide a set of cutters practically forming hand stamping dies
which are interchangeable in the same supporting frame d.
This same handle g can also be utilised for supporting my improved apple corer
and parer combined illustrated in side view Fig. 5. and back view Fig. 6-the
paring blade or entting slith being formed by slitting the semi-tubular part then
pressing the metal at one side of the slit outwards and sharpening it into a bit like
edge for paring vegetables and fruits. Or the same socketed handle may similarly
support in use a potatoe parer as indicated in Fig. 7. or a potatoe masher as
illustrated by side view Fig. 8 and inverted plan view Fig. 9. or other tools hitherto
used separately and thus my improved apparatus constitutes a multiple hand tool
for performing various culinary operations.
It will be obvious that my improvements hereinbefore described are applicable to
each of the several tools separately and apart from the multiple characteristic herein-
before described and that any one of the said tools may be made and used for its
own separate purpose.
In the case of my improved slicing apparatus I sometimes affix the frame to a
suitable base and arrange that the vegetable or fruit shall be sliced by being forced
between the cutters or blades by suitable blocks operated by a hand lever.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1st. The improvements in apparatus for cutting and slicing vegetables and fruits
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2nd. In a tool for cutting vegetables and fruits the employment of a supporting
frame fitted with interchangeable cutters or dies in conjunction with a detachable
handle capable also of supporting an apple corer and parer combined or a potatoe
parer, potatoe masher or other like tool and constituting together a multiple hand
tool substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 12th day of December 1889.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.