An Improved Apparatus for Cutting up Apples, Potatoes, and the like, Stoning Cherries and the like, Pulping or Mashing Fruit and Vegetables, and for Making Sausages.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left,. 27th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 29th Jan., 1889
An Improved Apparatus for Cutting up Apples, Potatoes, and the
like, Stoning Cherries and the like, Pulping or Mashing Fruit
and Vegetables, and for Making Sausages.
1, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the firm of G. F. Redfern & Co. the General
Patent Office No. 4 South Street Finsbury in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from
broad by Louis Eugène Quinard-Defrance, of Rheims, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer) to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus which by means of simple
pressure will
(1) cut an apple into pieces and remove the core thereby rendering it unnecessary
for the hands of the operator to be brought into contact with the fruit.
(2) cut potatoes into pieces ready to be fried.
(3) remove simultaneously the stones from a number of cherries or other similar
fruit.
(4) press fruits and vegetables of all kinds.
(5) manufacture small sausages.
All these operations can be effected very quickly, and in order to perform them it
is only necessary to change the adjustable portion of the apparatus.
The apparatus is constructed of a rectangular box provided inside with a removeable
inclined plane having at its centre an elliptical opening. On the box is a device for
producing pressure which consists of an adjustable arch one of the uprights of which
is screw-threaded and passes through a lug where it is secured by a nut; the other
upright receives a catch provided with a finger which, when the apparatus is ready to
operate, engages in a groove or notch formed under the lug. It will thus be seen that
it is only necessary to raise the catch to be able to turn the moveable arch round on
its other upright. Through the centre of the arch passes the rod of a piston to which
movement is communicated by a lever connected to the arch by a rod. The inner face
of the piston is provided with a small circular cavity in which are four points for

page_text: holding upon the knives the fruits or vegetables to be operated on. The piston which
at the end of its down stroke reaches within two millimeters of the box is further
provided with two guides which slide on the two uprights of the arch; it has two
notches or grooves which allow of the various plates being quickly adjusted
in position by means of pins. The top of the box is provided with a circular
flanged opening.
To work the apparatus, I place on the box and fix to the piston the necessary parts
according to the operation to be performed. For example, if it is desired to cut up
apples, the inclined plane is first placed in position and then a cutter plate provided
at its centre with a tube which passes through the inclined plane. The apple being
put in the centre of the cutting plate, the lever is pressed down and the apple will be
divided into several pieces and the same stroke causes the core and pips to pass down
the tube to the under side of the inclined plane, while the useful portions sliding on
the inclined plane pass out of the apparatus into a suitable receptacle without it being
necessary for the operator to touch them with his hands.
For cutting up potatoes to be fried, it is only necessary to replace the cutting plate
just referred to by another plate adapted for the operation.
If it is required to remove the stones from cherries, a plate, constructed of two
discs, the upper of which has a number of pins cut at their ends into four parts and is
adapted to the underside of the piston, four guides are fixed to the lower disc which is
also provided with a spring placed at the centre for the purpose of moving the two
discs apart; on the box is placed a plate provided with as many holes as there are
pins. By depressing the lever, the stones will be removed by the pins and will pass
with them through the plate. The cherries which remain lightly held by the pins,
are removed as soon as the spring re-acts to separate the two discs. In order
that the cherries may not be bruised by the lower disc, it is provided with two
projections which rest on the flange of the lower plate.
For pressing fat, meat, fruit, vegetables, &c., the arrangement for removing stones
from cherries is replaced by a second piston or cylinder which is adapted to the
underside of the hereinbefore described piston and which by its length corre-
spondingly increases the stroke of the latter; the inclined plane is removed from
the box in which is placed a perforated cylinder.
The perforated cylinder is filled with fruit or other substance, pressure is produced
and the product passes through the open side of the box, and falls into a receptacle
placed to receive it outside the apparatus. To perform a fresh operation, the
perforated cylinder can be removed in order to be refilled by rotating the pressing
apparatus and thereby uncovering the cylinder.
For preserves the operation is the same but the cylinder is made of fine galvanized
wire gauze to prevent the seeds of the fruit passing out.
For manufacturing small sausages, the operation is performed in the same manner
but the perforated cylinder is replaced by a plain cylinder in which the meat of
which the sausages are to be made is placed. The cylinder is provided at its lower
part with a screw-threaded sausage filler, on which the sausage skin is placed.
Slight pressure is then applied when the sausage meat will be forced into the
sausage skin through the filler.
Dated the 26th day of March 1888.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus which by means of simple
pressure will
(1) ent an upple into pieces and remove the core thereby rendering it unnecessary
for the hands of the operator to be brought into contact with the fruit.
(2) cut potatoes into pieces ready to be fried..
(3) remove simultaneously the stones from a number of cherries or other similar
fruit.
press fruits and vegetables of all kinds.
(5) manufacture small sausages.
All these operations can be effected very quickly and in order to perform them it
is only necessary to change the adjustable portion of the apparatus.
In order that the invention may be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the
improved apparatus; Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1; Figure 3 is an elevation of the
pressing apparatus; Figure 4 is a vertical section of the box on which is placed a
cutter plate (shewn in vertical section and in plan respectively at figures 5 and 6)
by means of which an apple is cut up and the core separated from the other parts.
Figures 7 and 8 are a vertical section and a plan respectively of another cutter plate
for cutting up potatoes ready to be fried.
Figure 9 is a vertical section of a square hox provided at one side with an
opening, in front of which is a movable wire gauze or like covering a to allow of the
escape of the juices, &c., and the retention of the refuse within the box which is
further provided with a spout 6 for facilitating the running off of the juices. At the
centre of the bottom plate is placed a sheet metal plate c of the shape of an arc of a
circle on which rests a perforated cylinder (Figure 11) in which the products to be
pressed or pulped are placed. Figure 10 is a plan of Figure 9. Figure 11 is a view
of the perforated cylinder. Figure 12 is a view of a cylinder adapted to be arranged
beneath the piston for working inside the perforated cylinder to pulp or mash the
contents. Figure 13 is a view of a cylindrical vessel in which meat is placed for
manufacturing sausages. Figure 14 is a view of two plates arranged to extract
stones from cherries. The upper plate shown in elevation and plan at Figures 15

page_text: and 16 respectively is constructed of a number of pins e fixed to the upper disc f; four
guides g are fixed to the lower disc which is also provided with a spring i placed at
the centre for the purpose of moving the two discs apart whereby the cherries which
remain adhering to the pins are caused to fall. The lower plate which is shown in
plan at Figure 17 is provided with as many holes as there are pins and is placed ou
the box A of the apparatus.
The apparatus is constructed of a rectangular box A provided inside with a
removeable inclined plane B having at its centre an elliptical opening. On the box
is a device for producing pressure which consists of an adjustable arch C one of the
uprights of which is screw threaded and passes through a lug D where it is secured
by a nut E; the other upright receives a catch F provided with a finger G which,
when the apparatus is ready to operate engages in a groove or notch formed under the
lug H. It will thus be seen that it is only necessary to raise the catch to be able to
turn the movable arch round on its other upright. Through the centre of the arch
passes the rod I of a piston 3 to which movement is communicated by a lever K
connected to the arch by a rod L. The inner face of the piston is provided with a
small circular cavity in which are four points for holding upon the knives the fruits or
vegetables to be operated on. The piston which at, the end of its down stroke reaches
within two millimeters of the box is further provided with two guides which slide on
the two uprights of the arch; it has two notches or grooves M, M' which allow of
the various plates being quickly adjusted in position by means of pins. The top of the
box A is provided with a circular flanged opening N.
To work the apparatus I place on the box and fix to the piston the necessary parts
according to the operation to be performed. For example, if it is desired to cut up
apples the inclined plane is first placed in position and then the cutter plate, shown at
figures 5 and 6 provided at its centre with a tube O which passes through the inclined
plane. The apple being put in the centre of the cutting plate, the lever is pressed
down and the apple will be divided into several pieces and the same stroke causes the
core and pips to pass down the tube to the underside of the inclined plane, while the
useful portions sliding on the inclined plane pass out of the apparatus into a
suitable receptacle without it being necessary for the operator to touch them with
his hands.
For cutting up potatoes to be fried it is only necessary to replace the cutting plate
shown in figures 5 and 6 by the plate shown in figures 7 and 8.
If it is required to remove the stones from cherries, a plate (shown in figures 15
and 16) having a number of pins cut at the end into four parts is adapted to the
underside of the piston and on the box is placed the plate shown in figure 17. By
depressing the lever the stones will be removed by the pins and will pass with them
through the plate. The cherries which remain lightly held by the pins, are removed
as soon as the spring i re-acts to separate the two dises. In order that the cherries
may not be bruised by the lower disc it is provided with two projections m, m³,
which rest on the flange of the lower plate.
For pressing fat, meat, fruit, vegetables, &c., the arrangement for removing stones
from cherries is replaced by a second piston or cylinder (figure 12) which is adapted
to the underside of the piston J and which by its length correspondingly increases the
stroke of the latter; the inclined plane is removed from the box A in which is placed
a perforated cylinder (figure 11) in the manner shown in figures 9 and 10.
The perforated cylinder is filled with fruit or other substance, pressure is produced
and the product passes through the open side of the box, and falls into a receptacle
placed to receive it outside the apparatus. To perform a fresh operation the per-
forated cylinder can be removed in order to be refilled by rotating the pressing
apparatus and thereby uncovering the cylinder.
For preserves the operation is the same but the cylinder is made of fine galvanized
wire gauze to prevent the seeds of the fruit passing out.
For manufacturing small sausages the operation is performed in the same manner
but the perforated cylinder is replaced by a plain cylinder (figure 13) in which the
meat of which the sausages are to be made is placed. The cylinder is provided at its

page_text: lower part with a screw threaded sausage filler, on which the sausage skin is placed.
Slight pressure is then applied when the sausage meat will be forced into the sausage
skin through the filler.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:
The improved apparatus constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and
adapted to perform the various operations herein referred to.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.