A Device for Holding and Grating Cheese or other Matters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Holding and Grating Cheese or other Matters.
I, BARONE FEDERICO GALLOTTI, Managing Director of the firm of Torti
Mascolo e. Cie., of Naples in the Kingdom of Italy do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a receptacle for holding cheese or any
other matter suitable so that it may be grated as and when desired without contact
with the hand.
In a suitable box having a removable lid which may be made fixed to one of the
sides or ends of the box which may then be hinged, is a cylindrical or prismatic
receiver preferably of the shape of the cheese or matter to be grated, in cross
section, this receiver being preferably fixed to the removable lid and having for
its one end the end of the box fixed to that lid, and open at the other end which
when the box is closed will therefore be directed towards the opposite end of the
box. In this receiver is a sliding piston pressed forward to the open end of the
receiver by a spring and having a rod passing out through that end of the box
which forms the end of the said receiver, this rod ending in a handle. In the
opposite end of the box is a rotary shaft carrying outside the box a crank handle
and inside the box a circular disk whose face forms a rasp opposed to the end of
the receiver aforesaid. In the base of the box is a drawer for receiving the grated
cheese or other matter.
The rod may be drawn out and fixed by a catch and the box unlocked and
opened, the cheese can then be placed in the receiver and the box again closed
and if desired locked. On now loosening the rod the spring presses the cheese
against the rasping disk so that by turning the latter the cheese may be grated
and the particles will fall into the drawer, until the whole cheese is eventually used.
The drawer may be locked if desired.
Dated this 10th day of March 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Holding and Grating Cheese or other Matters.
I BARONE FEDERICO GALLOTTI Managing Director of the firm of Torti
Mascolo e. Cie. of Naples in the Kingdom of Italy do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in which 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 provide a receptacle for holding cheese or any
other matter suitable so that it may be grated as and when desired without contact
with the hand.
In a suitable box having a removable lid, which may be made fixed to one of
the sides or ends of the box, which may then be hinged, is a cylindrical or prismatic
receiver, preferably of the shape in cross section of the cheese or matter to be
grated; this receiver being preferably fixed to the removable lid and having for
its one end the end of the box fixed to that lid and open at the other end, which
when the box is closed, will therefore be directed towards the opposite end of the
box. In this receiver is a sliding piston, pressed forward to the open end of the
receiver by a spring and having a rod passing out through that end of the box,
which forms the end of the said receiver, this rod ending in a handle. In the

page_text: opposite end of the box is a rotary shaft carrying outside the box a crank handle
and inside the box a circular disk, whose face forms a rasp opposed to the end of
the receiver aforesaid. In the base of the box is a drawer for receiving the grated
cheese or other matter.
The rod may be drawn out and fixed by a catch and the box unlocked and
opened, the cheese can then be placed in the receiver and the box again closed
and if desired locked. On now loosening the rod the spring presses the cheese
against the rasping disk so that by turning the latter the cheese may be grated
and the particles will fall into the drawer, until the whole cheese is eventually used.
The drawer may be locked if desired.
In place of a rod for moving the piston the same effect may be had by a chain
or cord attached to the back of the piston and this chain or cord instead of passing
direct through the end of the box may be wound upon a roller with a handle_for
revolving it and so winding up the chain or cord to retract the piston. This
roller being journalled in the sides of the box parts of the latter must be detached
and fixed to the end to open with the lid.
A substantially similar effect may also be produced by the employment of a screw
threaded rod to engage in a screw threaded socket in the piston or in the end of
the box and have a rotary bearing conversely in the end of the box or in the
piston. The spring for thrusting forward the piston will then not be needed but a
similar spring may in such case conveniently be placed behind the rasping disk.
The screw threaded rod may be turned by a small handle on its end.j
In order that the invention may be more readily carried into practice, reference
may be made to the annexed drawings illustrating more particularly the latter
modifications in the constructional details.
Fig. 1 is an exterior elevational view of the device.
Fig. 2 is a section thereof.
Fig. 3 is a section of another form of the construction.
Fig. 4 illustrates the device shown in Fig. 2 open to receive the material to be
grated, certain of the parts being omitted.
Fig. 5 is a cross section.
ris the lid of the box-a the receiver, o the piston therein, the spring, d the
rasp and e the handle for revolving the rasp-b is the chain to be wound on the
drum by handle 1, i is the drawer and m the lock-k is the screw threaded
rod, which may be used instead of the chain or of the plain draw rod. o the
spring used behind the disk d when the threaded rod k is employed and the spring/
omitted. is the handle in the shape of a small cross head or button for turning
the rod k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare, that what I
claim is :
A device for holding and grating cheese or other matter, consisting of a box
having a removable lid, a receiver attached to said lid, a piston therein with
means for propelling said piston towards the open fore-end and of retracting
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.