AN IMPROVED POTATOE AND FRUIT PEELING MACHINE
Year: 1884

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I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for AN IMPROVED POTATOE
AND FRUIT PEELING MACHINE, a communication to me from abroad by the firm
of E. Herzog of 18 Katharinenstrasse, Leipzig, in the kingdom of Saxony,
Manufacturers, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved potatoo and fruit peeling machine. The
nature of the invention and the mode of performing it will be understood by
reference to the accompanying drawing Figs. 1 to 9 intended to illustrate the
machine.
The machine consists of a frame serving as a bearing to the shafts A, B and C.
The shaft A is provided with a crank D and is turned by hand. Tho rotation
is imparted by two wheels E and E¹ in the ratio of two to one on the shafts B
and C, so that the latter revolve uniformly and twice as rapidly as the shaft A and
turn the potatoe held by the head stocks F F provided with blades a and a'.
By the rotation of the shaft A the screw b is also set in motion and serves to
actuate the toothed segment G.
The toothed segment G is connected with the knife lever H on which is mounted
the elastic movable blade holder I, which is pressed against the potatoe at a given
pressure. The peeling of the potatoe always takes place from the same side. The
blade on the holder I is adjustable by means of the screw e and the tongue f¹
for the purpose of cutting a more or less thick poel and it is conducted by the
segment around the potatoo until the latter is completely peeled. Thereupon the
turning of the crank is discontinued and the peeled potatoe is removed by shifting
the shaft B by means of lever K and by withdrawing the headstock F from tho
potatoe.
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After this the arm g of the disengaging lever L is adjusted so that its second
arm h seizes the pin and shifts the plate M on which are pivoted the knife
levers H and I, whereby the teeth of the segment G which are kept ongaged by

page_text: the spring kare thrown out of gear with the screw 6 whereupon the knife is
thrown back into its original position by means of the spring 7 mounted on the
pivot n of the knife lever H.
The original position is determined by the stop m.
The machine may also be provided with an arrangement which permits of
cutting off from both ends of the potatoo those parts which were seized by the
headstocks F, F.
The arrangement for this purpose is as follows:
On the disengaging lever K, there is a spring p carrying a pin o which supports
the knife N stretched by the spring r.
During the peeling the knives N, N¹ are situated below the potatoo and when
the pecling is terminated the knife N is deprived of its support formed by the
pin o owing to the pressure of the knife levor I on the end p₁ of the spring p
whereupon the knife N is thrown upward and cuts through the potatoe, close to
the holder so that no finishing is required at this part of the potatoe
In the same manner as the knife N is worked the knife N₁ which is mounted on
the equally stretched spring engaged by pin o¹ is worked. The pin o¹ is
disengaged owing to the pressure of the knife lover I against the curved levor P
which is pivoted at 8, in consequence of which the pin o¹ of the lever P¹ is shifted
and the spring is disengaged.
The curved lever P is situated below the plate M and is firmly connected with
P¹ by a common pivot.
For the purpose of sharpening the blade by the machine itself an emery
wheel Q, is mounted on the shaft A. For the purpose of adjusting the blades of
the head-stocks F F¹ so that the same may be made to penetrate more or less deep
into the potatoe the machine is provided with the adjustable sleeves R R³ scrowed
on the shafts B and C.
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page_text: I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67 Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declaro the nature of said invention for AN IMPROVED POTATO
AND FRUIT PEELING MACHINE, a communication to mo from abroad by the firm
of E Herzog, of Reudnitz, Leipzig, 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 improved potato and fruit-peeling machine. Tho
nature of the invention and the mode of performing it will be understood by
reference to the drawing-Figs. 1, to 9, filed with the provisional specification and
intended to illustrate the machine.
The machine comprises a frame, serving as a bearing to the shafts A, B and C.
The shaft A is provided with a crank D and is turned by hand. The rotation
is transmitted by two wheels E and E' in the ratio of two to one to the shafts B
and C, so that the latter revolve uniformly and twice as rapidly, as the shaft A,
and turn the potato, held by the head-stocks F F provided with blades a and a'.
By the rotation of the shaft A the screw b is also set in motion and serves to
actuate the toothed segment G.
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The toothed segment G is connected with the knife lever H, on which is
mounted the elastic movable blade holder I, which is pressed against the potato by
a spring d. The peeling of the potato always takes place from the same side. Tho
blade on the holder I is adjustable by means of the screw c, and the tongue f¹
for the purpose of cutting a more or less thick peel, and it is conducted by the
segment G.around the potato, until the latter is completely peeled.
Thereupon the turning of the crank is discontinued, and the peeled potato is
removed, by shifting the shaft B by means of the lever K, and by withdrawing
the headstock F from the potato. After this, the arm g of the disengaging lever L
is adjusted so, that its second arm h_seizes the pin and shifts the plate M, on
which aro pivoted the knifo-levers H and I, whereby the teeth of the segment G,
kept in gear by the spring k, are thrown out of gear with the screw b, whereupon
the knife or the knife lever, loses its hold and is thrown back into its original
position by means of the spring, mounted on the pivot n of the knife-lever H.
.The original position is determined by the stop pin m.
The machine may also be provided with an arrangement, which permits to
cut off from both ends of the potato those parts, which were seized by the
headstocks F Fr.
The arrangement for this purpose is as follows:
On the disengaging lever k, there is a spring p carrying a pin o, which supports
the knife N, stretched by the spring r.
During the peeling the knifes N N are situated below the potato and, when
the peeling is terminated, the knifo N is deprived of its support, formed by the
pin o, owing to the pressure of the knife-lever I on the end p¹ of the spring p.
whereupon the knife N is thrown upward and cuts through the potato close to
the holder, so that no finishing is required at this part of the potato.

page_text: In the same manner as the knife N, works the knife N', which is mounted on
the equally stretched spring r¹, engaged by pin o¹. The pin o' is disengaged,
owing to the pressure of the knife-lever I against the curved lever P, which is
pivoted at 8, in consequence of which the pin o¹ of the lever P' is shifted and the
spring is disengaged.
The curved levor P is situated below the plate M and is firmly connected with Pl
by a common pivot.
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For the purpose of sharpening the blade of by the machine itself, an emery
wheel Qis mounted on the shaft A. For the purpose of adjusting the blades of
the headstocks F F' so, that the same may be made to penetrate more or less deep
into the potato, the machine is provided with the adjustable sleeves R R³, screwed
on the shafts B and C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the naturo of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what
I claim is
1. A potato- or fruit-peeling machine, comprising in its construction an elastically
'movable knife-lever J connected with a segment lever H, the latter being turned
by a scrow thread b, formed on the shaft A, the plate M and the lever H being
mado adjustable for the purpose of releasing and throwing back the segment G, by
means of lever L, pin i and spring k and
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2. A pair of shafts B and C, provided with adjustable headstocks F F¹, the said
shafts being turned uniformly by means of wheels E E¹, and serving to produce a
uniform rotation of the fruit, mounted in the machine.
3. The combination of shaft B with lever K, adapted to disengage the shaft.
4. A cutting instrument, provided with adjustable tongue f₁ for varying the
depth of cutting.
5. The cutting off knives N and N' supported by adjustable pins o o¹, and
adapted to be moved by levers p, P and spring r, r².
6. The sleeves R, R¹, mado adjustable by screw-thread for allowing the
'headstocks or holders to penetrate more or less into the fruit.
7. The springs pivoted at n, and serving to place the peeling knife automatically
in its original position.