Apparatus for Slicing Vegetables and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1396-Accepted, 29th May, 1397
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Apparatus for Slicing Vegetables and the like.
I, MARTIN HIRSCHLAFF, of 39 Mittelstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The present invention consists of a cutter device for apparatuses for cutting up or
slicing vegetables and the like, and comprises means for setting the apparatus to cut
slices of a predetermined thickness.
And in order to render the specification more easily intelligible reference is had to
the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts
throughout the several views:-
Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus attached to a table,
Fig. 2 a sido elevation of the cutter drum or cylinder,
Fig. 3 an end elevation seen from the left hand end of Figure 2,
Fig. 4 a perspective elevation of the cutter drum or cylinder showing the guide
plates turned outward on their hinges,
Fig. 4 elevation & plan of the guide plate,
Fig. 5 an end elevation of the drum seen from the right hand end of Figure 2.
Fig. 6 is a detail elevation of the cutter and
Fig. 7 a similar elevation of the clamping rod for the guide plate.
The cutter drum or cylinder is mounted in a housing A' and turned in the usual
manner by means of a crank lever A 2. The cutter cylinder consists of a plate B
fast to the shaft d and attached to a ring C by means of rods h. Upon these rods
are hinged a series of curved guide plates said guide plates having at their free
ends rods t with clamping nuts g said rods being adapted to pass through slantingly
arranged guide slots gl in the plate B and ring C and to be clamped in any position
therein by means of the clamping nuts 9 thereon. Between the plates, cutters ss
are arranged having their knife-edge opposite to the adjustable end of the guide
plates p. Obviously when the ends of the plates are adjusted further from or
nearer to the centre of the cylinder the thickness of the slice to he cut will be
varied and thus it is possible with the present invention to cut slices of a pre-
determined thickness by previously adjusting the ends of the guide plates p.
In cutting beans it will be necessary to fit a slanting guide plate of any suitable
construction into the hopper of the machine which shall guide the beans slantingly
towards the cutter drum, in order to avoid their being cut into too small pieces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A cutter drum or cylinder having guide plates hinged therein with their free
ends adjustable in front of the cutters substantially as described.
2. A cutter drum having a series of cutters s, and a series of guide plates p
hinged within said drum and having their free ends adjustable to and from the axis

page_text: of said drum by means of slots in the end plates of the drum and rods with
clamping screws substantially as described and shown and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 19th day of December 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.