Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting Up Cheeses.
Year: 1897

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by EMIL HOPF, of Heiligenstein, near Thal
Thuringia, in the Empire of Germany, Galvanizer.]
Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting Up Cheeses.
I, CHARLES JUNGE, of Lincoln Chambers, 75 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Consulting Engineer, 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:―
My invention relates to apparatus for cutting up cheeses.
The devices hitherto employed for cutting up big cheeses are very little suited
for that purpose. Use has been made of large knives, which generally produce
much waste, besides presenting the drawback of troublesome and unclean handling.
Thus it was especially the first incision into big cheeses, such as for instance
Gruyere, sometimes weighing up to 1 hundredweight, which gave great trouble
and necessitated a considerable effort.
For cutting up big cheeses I have constructed an apparatus which by its practical
arrangement obviates the aforesaid drawbacks, and which may be handled with
the greatest ease by a single person.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 a side elevation partly in section of my improved apparatus.
Figure 3 shows a plan of the cross-shaped bed plate, partly as seen from above
and partly as seen from below.
This apparatus consists substantially of a turn table d upon which the cheese
is laid, and a knife or cutter lever e, arranged above such turn table.
The lever e has its fulcrum in a bracket at g and works at its free end provided
with a handle el between guide-bars f. The knife or cutter i may be moved along
the lever e and secured in any desired position by thumb screws or the like so
that it can be easily adjusted.
Such knife or cutter i must be placed on the lever e so that its lower edge will
be above the cheese when the lever occupies its highest position, and that it will
bear with the full length of its sharp edge upon turn table d in the lowest position
of said lever e.
After the cheese has been laid upon the turn table d and the knife or cutter i
is placed near the fulcrum of the lever e, the first incision is made by pressing
down this lever, whereupon the lower edge of the knife or cutter i, whose lateral
edge turned towards the interior of the cheese must also be sharpened, bears upon
the turn table while the said lateral edge occupies the centre of the cheese.
Should the radius of the cheese or its prolongation from the centre in the horizontal
direction be greater than the length of the knife or cutter i, the latter is moved
a corresponding distance towards the handle e¹ and another incision is made. The
operation hereinbefore described is repeated each time the turn table d has been

page_text: turned through a given part of the circle. In this manner even the biggest cheese
may easily and cleanly be cut up into sector-shaped pieces without any waste.
For securing the lever e in its highest position it may advantageously be
provided with an adjusting pin, catch or the like which enables it to be readily
released. The turn table is supported upon a cross-shaped bed plate & furnished
with a central stud or pivot and casters, as shown in Figure 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
ne by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
In apparatus for cutting up cheeses the combination, with a turn-table d of a
lever e arranged above the turn table and working between guide bars f, said
lever carrying a knife or cutter i, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 18th day of August 1897