other Vegetables or Fruits.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1887
Complete Left, 14th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
other Vegetables or Fruits.
I RICHARD FORD Manufacturer of 23 Spring Hill Birmingham in the County of
Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the following arrangement of parts and in the adoption
of the special kind of material or metal in the manufacture of the article.
I form a receiving chamber to receive the vegetable or fruit, this chamber may be
of any suitable configuration but I prefer to make it in the form of a hopper. 1
pierce the chamber on one, two or more of its sides with a series of holes, which
may be varied in diameter in accordance with the particular fruit or vegetable I wish
to mash.
I next take a piece of bar or rod steel of a circular, oval or other suitable trans-
verse section and bend the steel into an open frame by preference somewhat resembling
the shape of a cricket bat: the extreme end of the frame would be formed into ears
or bearings..
I next secure my receiving chamber to the cricket bat-shape-frame by soldering by
lapping or by any other suitable mechanical means when so put together the
handle end of the bat shaped frame would form a convenient handle with which to
lift the receiving chamber and its contents.
I next proceed to make a mashing lever by bending a piece of steel (similar to
that hereinbefore described) into a shape closely resembling the head of a hay rake,
at the broad or bottom end I form a mashing plate consequently the mashing lever
presents an appearance closely resembling a road scraper with a hay rake handle to
it a trunion projects from each side of the mashing plate, I next place the trunions
of the mashing plate into the ears or bearings provided in the front end of the bat
shaped frame and thereby complete the apparatus ready for use.
The apparatus is used in the following manner, the mashing lever is moved on its
trunions so as to lift the mashing plate out of the receiving chamber, potatoes or
other vegetables or fruit is then put into the receiving chamber and the mashing lever
moved down so as to bring the mashing plate horizontally over the mouth of the

page_text: receiving chamber, then by moving the lever handle downwards the mashing plate
follows the substance contained in the receiving chamber and forces it through the
pierced holes in the sides of the chamber, thus converting the vegetables or fruit into
pulp.
The making of a receiving chamber to work in conjunction with a mashing lever,
is nt new, the new and original part consists in utilising steel wire, or steel rod, or
cast steel or steel of any kind and of any suitable transverse section in the making
of the handle frame of the receiving chamber and in the making of the handle part
of the mashing lever and in the making of the receiving chamber or any part thereof
or in the making of the whole of the apparatus with steel or out of steel, as by the
adoption and use of steel the apparatus can be made lighter and stronger and
cheaper than by the use of iron or other metal or material.
Dated this 14th day of July 1887.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: other vegetables or Fruits.
1 RICHARD FORD Manufacturer, of 23 Spring Hill Birmingham in the County of
Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists in the following arrangement of parts, combined with the
adoption of the special kind of material or metal in the manufacture of the article,
as hereinafter set forth.
I form a receiving chamber to receive the vegetables or fruit, this chamber may
be of any suitable configuration, but I prefer to make it in the form of a hopper,
I pierce the chamber on one, two, or more of its sides, with a series of holes which
may be varied in diameter in accordance with the particular fruit or vegetable I wish
to mash.
I next take a piece of bar steel, or rod steel of a circular, oval or other suitable
transverse section and bend the steel into an open frame somewhat resembling the
shape of a cricket-bat.
I next secure my receiving chamber to the bat-shaped frame by soldering, by
lapping or by any other suitable mechanical means, when so put together the handle
end of the frame would be used to lift the chamber and its contents.
I next proceed to make a mashing-lever by bending a piece of steel into a shape
suitable to form a convenient handle.
I secure the mashing-plate to the handle and thus form the complete mashing
lever; suitable trunions are provided on the mashing-lever.
The mashing-plate of the mashing-lever is next lowered into the receiving
chamber, the trunions being placed in bearings provided on the edge of the receiving
frame.
The apparatus so put together is used in the following manner.
The mashing lever is moved on its trunions so as to lift the mashing plate out of the
receiving chamber, potatoes, or other vegetables or fruit are then put into the receiving-
chamber and the mashing lever moved down so as to bring the mashing-plate
horizontally over the mouth of the receiving chamber, then by moving the lever-
handle downwards the, mashing-plate follows the substance contained in the receiving
chamber and forces it (through the pierced holes provided in the sides of the receiving
chamber thus converting the vegetables or fruit into pulp.
The making of a receiving chamber to work in conjunction with a mashing-lever
is not new, the new and original part consists in utilizing steel-wire or steel of any
kind and of any suitable transverse section, in the making of the handle-part of the
mashing-lever also in the making of the handle-frame of the receiving chamber also
in the making of any other parts of the apparatus that have not been made out of
steel up to the date of the filing of my provisional specification, as by the adoption
and use of steel, the apparatus can be made lighter and stronger and cheaper than
by the use of iron or other metal or material.

page_text: I have not provided drawings with this my complete specification because the
apparatus in not new, and because my invention does not consist in the mechanism
of the apparatus but in the utilizeation of steel in the make-up or manufacture of the
apparatus.
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
The utilizeation of steel rod, steel-bar, steel plate, or steel of any kind or of any
section in the make up or manufacture of apparatus for the purpose of mashing
vegetables fruit, or other such like produce as hereinbefore fully set forth.