IMPROVEMENTS IN KNIVES FOR PEELING APPLES, POTATOES, AND OTHER FRUITS AND ROOTS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Appleton, of 7, London Street, New Swindon,.
in the County of Wilts, for the Invention, of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KNIVES FOR
PEELING APPLES, POTATOES, AND OTHER FRUITS AND ROOTS."
Sealed the 23rd May 1856, and dated the 18th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Appleton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
March 1856.
I, PETER APPLETON, of .7, . London Street, New Swindon, in the County of
Wilts, do hereby declare. the nature. of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
KNIVES FOR PEELING APPLES, POTATOES, AND OTHER FRUITS AND ROOTS," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists in attaching to the side of the blade of a knife a
guard or plate, the edge of which is parallel with and projects slightly beyond.
the cutting edge of the blade.
When the knife is in use the guard rests on the surface of the fruit or root,
and prevents the blade from penetrating to a greater depth than the distance
between the cutting edge and the guard, which distance is adjusted according
to circumstances. The paring removed passes between the blade and the guard,
and then away through a slit or opening in the guard.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Appleton in the. Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
APPLETON, of 7, London Street, New Swindon, in the County of Wilts, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her. heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Peter Appleton, Her special licence that I, the said Peter Appleton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter
Appleton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time.agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during.
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN KNIVES
FOR PEELING APPLES, POTATOES, AND OTHER FRUITS AND ROOTS, upon the condition"
(amongst others) that I, the said Peter Appleton, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Appleton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
:
This Invention consists in attaching to the side of the blade of a knife a
guard or plate, the edge of which is parallel with and projects slightly beyond
the cutting edge of the blade. When the knife is in use the guard rests on
the surface of the fruit or root, and prevents the blade from penetrating to a
greater depth than the distance between the cutting edge, and the guard, which
distance is adjusted according to circumstances. The paring removed passes
between the blade and the guard, and then away through a slit or opening in
the guard.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING..
Figure 1 shows two views of a knife with a straight blade, and Figure 2
shows two views of a knife with a bent blade. These knives are rendered
more suitable for peeling apples, potatoes, and other fruits and roots, by reason
of a plate or guard B applied to the blade A. I would state that the mode of
attaching or fixing the plate B may be varied from the means shown in the
Drawing without departing from my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Appleton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness;-
JOHN FRASER,
, of Swindon, Wiltshire..
PETER APPLETON. (L.S.)