An Improved Grater and Slicer.
Year: 1898

page_text: An Improved Grater and Slicer.
I, EDWARD HOWE, of 7, Woburn Place, London, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to an improved device, to be used by cooks and other
persons, for grating bread-crumbs, ginger or other articles to any desired degree
of fineness, or for slicing vegetables or other substances. The device is so arranged
that graters of any degree of fineness, or a slicing device, may be used as desired,
the position of the receptacle into which the grated or sliced substances fall
being varied according to the special requirement.
In order to put my invention in operation I take a rectangular box, of suitable
metal or material, preferably tinned plate, square in end view and of convenient
length, one end of the box being open and receiving a drawer or receptacle of
corresponding shape which can slide into or out of the box, so that it can be
inserted with its open top, opposite to either of the four sides of the box. These
four sides are provided with rough perforations of the kind ordinarily made in
graters, these perforations being made of different size and coarseness at each of
the sides, whilst one or more of the sides may have, instead of such perforations
for grating, one or more transverse slits, straight or curved in the direction of
their length, one of the edges of which slit is bent up to a sufficient height so
that it serves to slice vegetable or other substances pressed against it, the sliced
pieces falling into the receptacle or drawer inserted into the box as above
described.
Two or more sets of perforated gratings of different degrees of coarseness may
be provided upon each side of the box, or upon one or more of the sides, instead
of one size only upon each side, so that a very considerable variety in the size of
the grated substances can be obtained.
The shape and character of the perforations may be varied in order to produce
the best effect. For instance, they may be circular, rectangular, or triangular,
or they may be formed with a raised cutting edge such as has been described for
the slicing device.
The drawer is provided with a suitable handle.

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, and accompanying drawing, that is to say:-
This invention relates to an improved device, to be used by cooks and other
persons, for grating bread-crumbs, ginger, or other articles, to any desired degree
of fineness, or for slicing vegetables or other substances. The device is so arranged
that graters of any degree of fineness, or a slicing device, may be used as desired,
the position of the receptacle into which the grated or sliced substances fall
being varied according to the special requirement.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, Figure 1 being
a perspective view of the improved grater, with the receptacle for the grated
material removed; and Figure 2 a separate view of the receptacle.
box a.
of
In order to put my invention in operation I take a rectangular box 'a,
suitable metal or material, preferably tinned plate, square in end view and of
convenient length, one end of the box at 6 being open and receiving a drawer or
receptacle c of corresponding shape which can slide into or out of the box, so
that it can be inserted with its open top opposite to either of the four sides of the
These four sides are provided with rough perforations of the kind
ordinarily made in graters, these perforations being made of different size and
coarseness at each of the sides, as shown at ul, e, and f, whilst one or more of the
sides may have, instead of such perforations for grating, one or more transverse
slits g, straight or curved in the direction of their length, one of the edges of
which slit is bent up to a sufficient height so that it serves to slice vegetable or
other substances pressed against it, the sliced pieces falling into the receptacle
or drawer c inserted into the box as above described.
Two or more sets of perforated gratings of different degrees of coarseness may
be provided upon each side of the box, as shown at d and e, or upon one or more
of the sides, instead of one size only upon each side, so that a very considerable
variety in the size of the grated substances can be obtained.
The shape and character of the perforations may be varied in order to produce
the best effect. For instance, they may be circular, rectangular, or triangular,
or they may be formed with a raised cutting edge such as has been described for
the slicing device.
The drawer c is provided with a suitable handle h.
I do not confine myself to the particular shape and proportions of the several
parts of the apparatus, which may be varied more or less to suit different require-
ments but,
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. The combination of the rectangular outer box a, having grating devices
in its sides, and the drawer c which can be inserted so that its open top is opposite
to either of the sides of the box, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In combination with the box a having some of its sides provided with
grating devices, the slicing devices g, 9, 9, substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated this 20th day of September 1899.
EDWARDS AND CO.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.