An Improved Implement for Chopping or Mincing Meat, Vegetables,. and other Articles or Substances.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
An Improved Implement for Chopping or Mincing Meat, Vegetables,.
and other Articles or Substances.
I, ULYSSES JAMES ULERY, 55, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C., Merchant,.
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 :-
The device according to my invention is intended to serve the purpose, mainly,.
of an improved chopper for mincing meat and other articles of diet which it may
be desired to reduce to a finely divided state previously to being cooked or
otherwise.
In accordance with my invention the improved chopper when completed and
mounted in its handle as shown at Figure 1 presents a series of chopping blades a,.
say, as in the illustration, six in number, resulting from the assembling together
and building up in manner hereunder explained of three blades, that is to say,
first I employ a central blade Figure 2, of or about. the shape shown, having a
longitudinal slot running centrally from the narrow or haft end where inserte
into the handle c and extending up to within a short distance of the head or
chopping portion of the device. I then take a second blade Figure 3 of the same.
configuration externally as the first referred to blade but with slots as shown at d
and e.
This second blade I then introduce into and enter upon the first. The
third blade is of the same external configuration as that of the two first above-
referred to, but having one slot only f. This third blade is then entered upon blade
number two and finds a bearing or seating at the shoulder or head g of the slot e
in blade number two. This operation completes the assembling together of the
several wing pieces or blades of which the multiple chopper consists Figure 4..
Each of the blades is provided at the haft end with a tang of suitable length for
entry into the handle and the whole are bound together by the encircle washer or
ringh as shown in the general elevational view of the device at Figure 1.
As will be seen on reference to the drawings, I slightly curve the cutting edges.
of the blades as I find this facilitates the operation of mincing or cutting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I am aware that a meat or similar chopper consisting of more than one blade-
has already been employed in practice I therefore make no claim per se to a mere-
multiple chopper, but what I claim and wish to secure by Letters Patent is :-
The improved chopper as herein described and shown consisting of a number of
wing blades built up substantially in the manner specified and in which the striking-
force passes downwards through the central axis of the device and is utilised and
conveyed to the several chopping blades to the best possible advantage.
Dated this 29th day of January 1894.
BENJAMIN T. KING,
163, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant..