Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cutting Cheese by Means of a Wire and Guide Bracket. Attached to a Counter
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1891-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cutting Cheese by
Means of a Wire and Guide Bracket. Attached to a Counter.
BEESTON TUPHOLME 18 Watery Street Sheffield Grocers' Machinist do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This said cheese cutter is secured to a counter or bench.
The top portion of the said guide or bracket may be about two inches wide, the
bottom portion being a rod or bar but preferably an open or slotted tube; at the
bottom of this said tube or bar I have a stop notch or preferably cut off at an acute
angle from the slot or front.
Moving to and fro in this said tube or on the bar I have a guide bead having a
hole through which I pass a suitable thin cheese wire, at the bottom of this said tube
or bar I have a suitable curved hook which admits the aforesaid cheese wire and also
holds it in position, at the top of this said bracket I have a slotted orifice through
which I pass the aforesaid cheese wire about thirty inches long, this wire is then
passed down and through the slotted tube bar and bead.
At the top end of this wire I attach a handle.
This said handle being in two parts a screw and a threaded socket, at the
extreme end of the screw I have a suitable eye or fork projection, about half way
down the socket part I have a small hole the male part being screwed into the
socket until the eye or fork is opposite the small said hole, through this small hole
and eye I pass the aforesaid cheese wire about half an inch and as the male part is
screwed down the socket the wire is simultaneously locked in the eye or hook and
thus effectually secured.
At the bottom end of the aforesaid cheese wire I attach a weight secured in
exactly the same manner as the handle described above.
The apparatus being fixed to the counter the wire is pulled out and the cheese
laid upon it, the handle is picked up and the wire pulled through the cheese, after
use the weight falls down the slotted tube and brings the handle in position at the
top of the bracket.
When a small piece of cheese is required the wire is suitably shortened by the
weight stopping at the notch at the bottom of the tube bar.
Dated this 27th day of September 1890.
B. TUPHOLME.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cutting Cheese by
Means of a Wire and Guide Bracket Attached to a Counter.
BEESTON TUPHOLME 18 Watery Street Sheffield Grocers' Machinist 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:-
This said cheese cutter is secured to a counter or bench Fig. 1.
The top portion of the said guide or bracket A may be about two inches wide
the bottom portion being preferably an open or slotted tube B at the bottom of
this said tube I have a stop notch or preferably cut off at an acute angle from the
slot or front.
Moving to and fro in this said tube I have a guide bead C having a hole through
which I pass a suitable thin cheese wire, at the top of this said bracket I have a

page_text: slotted orifice D through which I pass the aforesaid cheese wire about thirty inches
long this wire is then passed down and through the slotted tube B and bead C.
At the top end of this wire I attach a handle E this said handle being in two
parts (Fig. 2) a screw and a threaded socket at 'the extreme end of the screw I have
a suitable eye or fork projection (a) about half way down the socket part I have a
small hole (6) the male part being screwed into the socket until the eye. or fork is
opposite the small said hole, through this small hole and eye I pass the aforesaid
cheese wire about half an inch and as the male part is screwed down the socket the
wire is simultaneously twisted in the eye (a) or fork and thus effectually secured.
At the bottom end of the aforesaid cheese wire I attach a weight F secured in
exactly the same manner as the handle described above (Fig. 2).
The apparatus being fixed to the counter the wire is pulled out to its full length
bringing the weight to the top of the tube as shown in front view-A A and the
cheese laid upon it, the handle is then picked up and the wire pulled through the
cheese, after use the weight falls down the slotted tube and brings the handle in
position at the top of the bracket A..
When a small piece of cheese is required to be cut the wire is suitably shortened
by the weight stopping at the bottom of the slotted tube B but when again a whole
cheese is required to be cut the weight is released at the bottom and slides up the
slot outside the hole to the top of the bracket A A thus lengthening the wire.
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1st. Bracket or cheese wire guide.
2nd. Arrangement for lengthening or adapting the wire to suit the size of cheese
to be cut.
3rd. Slotted tube bar with internal drop bead.
4th. Arrangement for securing the wire in the handle and weight.
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B. TUPHOLME.