Improved Appliance for Scraping Meat.
Year: 1889

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Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1889.
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar:, 1890-Accepted. 17th May: 18905.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Scraping Meat..
I, DIPRAND VON. REIBNITZ, of Schoneberg, near Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
It has been usual heretofore to scrape meat either with the aid of meat dividing
machines or merely with the sharp edge of a knife, for the purpose of obtaining
"scraped meat" in a finely-divided state and' as free from sinews as possible.
The present invention consists in the arrangement of a scraping knife having a
broad battle-axe shaped blade which is formed with a hollow in the shape of a trough,
and is provided, instead of with a plain cutting edge, with fine, sharp, obliquely
tapering teeth in such a manner that the meat shall be detached from the sinews that
are held in the spaces between the teeth, and will be deposited in a finely divided
scraped condition without sinews, in the trough-shaped hollow of the blade. The
blade is or 'may be provided' with a handle so arranged that the appliance can be
readily manipulated.
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Meat dividing machines are expensive and are also, very difficult to clean, so that
meat has generally been scraped heretofore with the aid of an ordinary cutting knife,
whereby either a considerable quantity of sinews has become mixed with the scraped
meat, or else a good deal of meat has remained attached to the sinews and has been
lost. The meat scraper forming the subject of the present invention is designed to
obviate these disadvantages and is moreover such as can be produced very cheaply.
The mode of operation with this meat scraper is as follows:-
The handle is held in the right hand in such a manner that the point of the cutting
edge shall be in front, and the inward bulge or hollow shall lie towards the direction
of scraping. The meat to be scrapod is held with the left hand and the toothed edge
of the appliance is passed lightly over the meat. The fine particles of meat carried
away by the teeth are thereby collected in the hollow whilst the sinews are held in the
spaces between the teeth, and after repeated scraping remain behind quite free from
meat particles.
Dated this 18th dow of Cantant 1000
D. VON REIBNITZ..
Per L. W.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Scraping Meat.
1, DIPRAND VON REIBNITZ, of Schoneberg, near Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
Gentleman, 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 :-
It has been usual heretofore to scrape meat either with the aid of meat dividing
machines or merely with the sharp edge of a knife, for the purpose of obtaining
scraped meat" in a finely divided state and as free from sinews as possible.
"
The present invention has reference to a scraping knife having a broad battle-axe
shaped blade b, made concavo convex, hollowed or bulged as shewn at d. This blade
is provided, in lieu of a plain cutting edge, with fine, sharp, obliquely tapering teeth c
arranged in such a manner that the meat is detached from the sinews which are held
in the spaces between the teeth, and is deposited in a finely divided scraped condition
without sinews in the trough-shaped hollow d of the blade. The blade is or
may be provided with a handle a so arranged that the appliance can be readily
manipulated.

page_text: Meat dividing machines are expensive and are also very difficult to clean, so that
meat has generally been scraped heretofore with the aid of an ordinary cutting knife,
whereby either a considerable quantity of sinews has become mixed with the scraped
meat, or else a good deal of meat has remained attached to the sinews and has been
lost. My meat scraper is designed to obviate these disadvantages and is moreover
such as can be produced very cheaply.
The mode of using this meat scraper is as follows:-
The handle is held in the right hand in. such a manner that the point of the
cutting edge is in front, and the inward bulge or hollow lies towards the direction
in which the scraping is effected. The meat to be scraped is held with the left
hand and the toothed edge of the appliance is passed lightly over it. The fine particles
of meat carried away by the teeth are thereby collected in the hollow whilst the
sinews are held in the spaces between the teeth, and after repeated scraping remain
behind quite free from meat particles.
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
olaim is :-
An appliance for scraping meat consisting of a blade having fine teeth in lieu of a
plain cutting edge and made concavo convex hollowed or bulged as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of March 1890.
D. VON REIBNITZ.
Per L. W.