An Improved Appliance for Peeling, Cutting, and Serving Oranges and similar Fruit.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1392
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Peeling, Cutting, and Serving Oranges
and similar Fruit.
I THOMAS MACE CANNON Gentleman 26 Glenview Road Lewisham S.E. in
the County of Kent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention is designed to supply a tool for peeling & cutting into slices and
serving oranges and similar fruit. I do this by forming the spoon as usual with bowl
and handle, but at the top of said handle I form the shape so that it corresponds
to the curve and form of an orange, the top edge and sides are thin or sharp so
that this end being pressed under the rind will easily separate the peel from the
meat. Again I form the bowl rather shallow and on one side I make a slight flat
projection this I sharpen so that it can be used as a knife to divide the sections, on
the bottom of bowl I can form two or more prongs so that the spoon can be used
in the same manner as a fork, the handle can be ornamental or plain.
Dated this 27th day of May 1891
THOMAS MACE CANNON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Peeling, Cutting, and Serving Oranges
and similar Fruit.
1, THOMAS MACE CANNON, Gentleman, of 26 Glen View Road, Lewisham in
the County of Kent, 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:―
This invention designed to provide an instrument suitable for peeling cutting
into slices and serving oranges and similar fruit.
It consists of a kind of spoon, having a bowl and handle. The bowl is by
preference rather shallower than the bowl of a spoon and on one side there is a flat
projection of the edge of the bowl. This projecting lip is thinned or sharpened
towards its edge, so as to form a sort of blade to divide the fruit. At the end of
the bowl furthest from the handle I sometimes form one or more short prongs so
that the article can be used as a fork when desired.
This fork is however optional, and may be dispensed with, or instead thereof the
projecting lip before described may be prolonged, so as to extend half-way around
the end of the bowl.
The handle of the bowl may be made separately, of bone, pearl, ivory, or other
suitable material, and attached in the same manner as the handle of a fruit knife.
Or it may be made solid with the bowl like the handle of a teaspoon. The latter
method is the one I prefer and when the article is made thus I bend the end of the
handle so as to correspond with the curve of the surface of an orange; and I make
the extreme end, also one or both of the sides thin and sharp, so that when this end
is pressed just beneath the rind of the fruit it will easily separate the rind from the
edible portion of the fruit.
I will now refer to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the front of one kind of my orange spoon
furnished with the projecting lip a, the fork b, and the handle c, adapted for

page_text: Fig. 2 shows a side view of the same, the curve and thin end of the handle c,
being visible.
Fig. 3 shows the same bowl with an ordinary handle.
Figs. 4 and 5 are modifications with the lip only.
In the case of Fig. 4 it will be seen that the cutting lip is prolonged to the
centre of the end of the bowl. The pattern spoon shewn in Fig. 1 can be made
with this form of lip if preferred, or with that shewn in Fig. 5.
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
1. An instrument or appliance for peeling cutting and serving oranges and
similar fruit consisting of a bowl with projecting lip on one side and with or
without a prong or prongs at or near the end as herein described and set forth.
2. An instrument or appliance for peeling cutting and serving oranges and
similar fruit consisting of a bowl with projecting lip and with or without a prong
or prongs at or near the end, in combination with a handle having a curved
sharpened end, and a sharpened side edge or edges as herein described and ser
forth.
Dated this 26th day of February 1892.
A
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.