Improved Devices for Removing the Skins from Potatoes, Carrots, Apples, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June 1892'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Devices for Removing the Skins from Potatoes, Carrots,
Apples, and the like.
1, JAMES SCOPE DAVISON, of 4 Bigg Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the
County of Northumberland, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to devices for removing the skins from potatoes,
carrots, apples and other firm thin-skinned vegetables and fruit.
For this purpose the devices are constructed with one or more blades having or
each having two operative edges, one being plain and the other toothed or serrated.
Where two or more blades are used one or some of them may have a plain edge
and the other or others a toothed or serrated edge.
The blade or each blade if more than one be used, may be straight or curved and
secured at one or both ends to a handle or holder, and may be formed of any
suitable material such as steel, or copper.
In one form of device the blade is bent into horse shoe form, its ends being
secured to strong wires fitted in a suitable handle.
In another form the blade is similarly curved but has tangs or tapered portions
formed at its extremities which are bent together and fitted into the handle; or the
extremities may be bent so as themselves to form a handle.
In using a device such as described the serrated edge thereof is drawn over the
potato, carrot, apple or other article the skin of which is to be removed so as to
score its surface, and the plain edge is afterwards drawn over the scored part to
complete the removal of the skin.
In some cases I may construct the device with two parallel blades, either
straight or curved, one being toothed or serrated for scoring and the other being
plain. Or a number of parallel blades, serrated or alternately serrated and plain
may be employed.
The device may be constructed with a pointed piece of metal or other suitable
material for removing potato eyes and other desired parts of the article to be
treated.
Dated this 15th day of March 1892
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Devices for Removing the Skins from Potatoes, Carrots,
Apples, and the like.
I, JAMES SCOPE DAVISON, of 4 Bigg Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the
County of Northumberland, 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 :-
This invention has reference to devices for removing the skins from potatoes,
carrots, apples and other firm thin-skinned vegetables and fruit.
For this purpose the devices are constructed with one or more blades or plates
having, or each having, two operative edges, one being plain and the other toothed or
serrated. Where two or more blades are used one or some of them may have a
plain edge and the other or others a toothed or serrated edge.

page_text: The blade, or each blade if more than one be used, may be straight or curved
and secured at one or both ends to a handle or holder, and may be formed of any
suitable material such as steel, or copper.
In using a device such as described the serrated edge thereof is drawn over the
potato, carrot, apple or other article the skin of which is to be removed so as to
score its surface, and the plain edge is afterwards drawn over the scored part to
complete the removal of the skin.
In some cases I may construct the device with two parallel blades, either straight
or curved, one being toothed or serrated for scoring and the other being plain. Or
a number of parallel blades, serrated or alternately serrated and plain may be
employed.
The device may be constructed with a pointed piece of metal or other suitable
material for removing potato eyes and other desired parts of the article to be
treated.
In the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively front and side views of one form of device
constructed according to this invention.
Figs. 3 to 11 inclusive are elevations illustrating modified forms of blades that
may be employed.
Fig. 12 shows various forms of teeth or serrations that may be adopted.
Referring to Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive, A represents a blade of suitable material
such as steel bent to the required shape and secured to a suitable handle B. The
blade has one edge A* plain and preferably sharpened, while the other edge A° is
provided with teeth or serrations of any suitable shape, such for instance as either
of those illustrated in Fig. 12. C is a pointed piece of metal or gouge that may be
any suitable form, secured in the end of the handle for the purpose of removing
eyes from and cleaning irregular parts of a potato or the like. Suitable ferrules Bi
may be fitted on the ends of the handle B for strengthening the same and for
assisting in retaining the blade A and gouge C in place.
of
In Figs. 1 and the ends of the blade A are bent round and form tangs by which
the blade can be readily secured in the handle.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the blade A is of horse shoe form and its ends are secured to
a cross piece A' carried by a stem or tang A² secured in the handle B.
In Figs. 5 and 6 the blade A is circular and is directly secured to the stem A².
In the modified form of device shewn in Fig. 7 the blade A. is made straight, one
of its edges viz. A" being plain and the other A° serrated.
In this case the free end of the blade is pointed to act as a gouge.
In the device shown in Fig. 8 there are two straight blades A. A* arranged
parallel to each other and carried by arms or supports A' the ends of which serve
as tangs by which they are secured in the handle.
Figs. 9, 10, and 11 show different forms of blades in the form of thin flat plates,
each designed to be secured at its centre to a straight stem such as A' (Figs. 3
and 4), arranged at right angles thereto, the connection being effected by screwing
or otherwise as will be readily understood.
With all these devices, the serrated edge is used to score the skin of the potato,
carrot, apple or the like and the skin is finally removed by the smooth edge as
herein before stated. With devices having parallel blades, such as that illustrated
in Fig. 8, these actions are practically simultaneous the blade having the plain
edge following closely behind that having the serrated edge and completing its
action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For removing the skins from potatoes, carrots, apples and the like, a device
constructed with teeth or serrations for scoring the skins to be removed and with

page_text: the scored part, with or without a gouge or its equivalent for removing eyes and
other parts of the object treated substantially as described.
2. The improved devices for removing the skins from potatoes, carrots, apples
and the like, constructed substantially as herein before described with reference
respectively and shown in Figs. 1 and 2; in Figs. 3 and 4; in Figs. 5 and 6; in
Fig. 7; in Fig. 8; and in Figs. 9, 10 and 11, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of May 1892.
JAMES S. DAVISON.