New or Improved Disintegrating Utensil or Apparatus for Culinary and other Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Disintegrating Utensil or Apparatus for
Culinary and other Purposes.
I, RICHARD CHIDLEY, of 5; Bar Street, Scarborough, in the County of Yorkshire,
Tea and Coffee Pot Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
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My invention relates to a new or improved combination utensil or apparatus
adapted for shredding, slicing grating, or otherwise disintegrating potatoes,
cucumbers, turnips and other vegetables, suet, bread, spices, nuts, and other
substances or preparations incidental to culinary and other edible purposes, the
object of my invention being compactness, cheapness, and effectiveness in use.
My invention consists of two or more preferably metallic plates, hinged or
otherwise connected to each other, in such a manner, that they may fold down
flatwise upon each other when not in use, in order that the whole may be
compact and stored or packed in a small compass. The said plates may each
be bound or wired around their edges for imparting strength thereto, and the
said wires or their equivalents may be arranged to form or provide the means
by which one plate may be hinged to its neighbour or neighbours, the same.
being also conveniently extended at one end of each of the said plates (or such
of them as may be necessary) to form a handle, and at their opposite end to
form feet or rests when the plates are in use.
The said plates may each be provided with cuts or slits or both, arranged trans-
versally, longitudinally, or diagonally or one or more of the said plates may have
such cuts or slits, while the other or others may be provided with circular, rect-
angular, elliptical, quadrantal or other shaped holes, slots, or apertures, one edge
of each of the said slits or cuts being raised above the other and the level surface
of the plate to form a cutting or knife edge, so that potatoes, cucumbers, and
other like vegetables may be sliced by being passed therealong or thereover.
Or one or more of the edges of the said slits or cuts so raised may be undulatory,
so as to cut the said vegetables, suet, and other substances into shreds or long
strips instead of slices.
The said holes, slots, or apertures in the same or other of the said plates, may
have their ends or other part or parts of their edges pressed up or otherwise
aised from the surface of their respective plates, to form cutting edges, for the
purposes of shredding suet, and the like, or for grating bread, biscuits, ginger,
and other spices, or for disintegrating vegetables or the like in finer shreds or
sirips than that obtainable by the use of the before mentioned slits or cuts.
I may find it convenient to form the said plates and their respective handles
slits, cuts, holes or other apertures and the necessary turned up and sharpened
edges of the said slits, cuts, holes or other apertures, in one operation by stamping
them out of sheet metal, and although described as specially adaptable for
culinary purposes, it is obvious, that a utensil so made may be employed for

page_text: slicing or shredding materials other than culinary, such for instance as soap
or the like.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Disintegrating Utensil or Apparatus for
Culinary and other Purposes.
I, RICHARD CHIDLEY, of 5, Bar Street, Scarborough, in the County of Yorkshire,
Tea and Coffee Pot Manufacturer, 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 a new or improved combination utensil or apparatus
for expeditiously shredding, slicing, grating, or otherwise disintegrating potatoes,
cucumbers, turnips and other vegetables, suet, bread, spices, nuts and other
substances or preparations incidental to culinary and other edible purposes, the
object of my said invention being compactness, cheapness and effectiveness in use.
In order that my invention, and the shape, configuration and general construc-
tion of the same 1 prefer to adopt may be fully understood I have appended a
sheet of drawings, of which
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the said device as it would appear when spread open,
while Fig. 2 is a perspective view of same when brought together as when in
at which time the three sides form an equilateral triangle in plan and
support each other in a vertical position.
use,
Fig. 3 is a plan view of same when folded together after use for compactness
in storing, and in which the upper wires or handles are removed or are in section
for clearness of illustration.
Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged or approximately full size sections taken upon the
lines A B and C D respectively of Fig. 1.
My invention consists of two or more, but preferably three metallic plates A,
B and C, hinged together by the means of wires D and E, the former of which
also provides a frame for the plate A, and the latter a frame for the plate C,
the inner sides of D and E also serving as a frame for B and the means for
connecting this in hinge form to A and C, the said wires at their upper ends
being arranged in the form of loops, D and E respectively, as a means for
suspending the whole when out of use and folded up as at Fig. 3, and as a hand
hold when the whole is open as at Fig. 2 and in use, while the lower ends of
the said wires are bent at F and F as shewn to form feet or supports for the
whole when open as at Fig. 2.
The said plates are each provided with cuts, slits, holes or apertures, punched
up, stamped out or otherwise produced during the cutting out and otherwise
manufacture of the plates, the said apertures being arranged transversally,
longitudinally or diagonally, and may vary in size, shape and configuration
according to the intended uses of same, but for general use as a culinary utensil
I prefer to arrange these as shewn, that is to say,
In the plate A I provide any number of holes a, the punches or dies for
producing these being so formed as to produce lips 6 in the substance of A and the
lower portion of the holes a, the said lips being concave upon the inner surface

page_text: and convex upon the outer surface of A, which imparts to the said holes upon
the said inner surface of A the form of an egg ellipse, and such holes and lips
may be conveniently used for shredding potatoes and other vegetables suet and
other substances when passed downwardly over the outer surface of A, the said
shreds or other particles as removed passing through the holes a.
In the plate B I provide one or more (preferably two) slits c, an essential
feature (according to my invention) being that the said slits are of such shape
as to form a crescent or a sector of circle, and the punches or dies employed for
producing the said slits would be so formed as to produce in the substance of B
lips & standing out at the outer surface of same, the edges of the said lips being
reduced in substance by pressure or otherwise so as to impart a knife like or
cutting edge, and the said lips d may be conveniently used for slicing cucumbers,
potatoes or other vegetables by passing these down the outer face of B and over
the said lips, the curved formation of the latter providing a guillotine like
cutting edge, and serves to guide the vegetable to the centre of the lip, the slices
removed thereby passing behind the said lips and through the slits c, and by
providing two such cuts and lips in the plate B permits that the lips d may be
of such a distance apart that the slice removed by the upper lip may be clear
and fall from the vegetable before the latter engages with the lower lip.
In the plate C I provide any number of circular rectangular or other shaped
holes e and beneath these like or other shaped but smaller holes f, all of which
may be produced in one operation by the use of suitable punches or dies, the
roughened or jagged edges of the said holes consequent upon such punching or
pressure providing grating surfaces, the one with the holes e being useful for
grating bread or the like, while the one with the holes f may be conveniently
employed for grating ginger, spices, nuts and the like.
The edges of the lips d in the plate B, may, if desired, instead of being straight
as shewn by full outline, be undulatory as shewn by dotted outline at Fig. 5,
or one may be plain while the other is undulatory, the latter being to impart
an undulatory cut to or shred instead of slice the vegetables.
My said invention although described as useful for culinary purposes may
conveniently being employed by laundresses and others for shredding soap, or
when made upon a larger scale by farmers and others for shredding or slicing
turnips or the like in the feeding of cattle..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The improved disintegrating utensil or apparatus herein described and shewn,
consisting of two or more plates such as A, B and C, hinged together so as to
fold up as at Fig. 3, or stand up and support each other as at Fig. 2, the said
plates being provided with holes such as a e and f the former provided with
lips b, one of the said plates having one or more curved slots or apertures such
each provided with a straight or undulatory edged lip d, substantially as and
for the purposes stated, and shewn by the appended drawings.
as c,
Dated this 1st day of November 1898.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.