AN IMPROVED DOMESTIC APPLIANCE FOR CUTTING BEANS, PEEL FOR MARMALADE AND OTHER EDIBLES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Clayforth of 29 Tyrwhitt Road, St John's in
the County of Kent for an Invention of AN IMPROVED DOMESTIC
APPLIANCE FOR CUTTING BEANS, PEEL FOR MARMALADE AND OTHER EDIBLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Clayforth at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th March 1883.
GEORGE CLAYFORTH of 29 Tyrwhitt Road St Johns in the County of Kent
"AN IMPROVED DOMESTIC APPLIANCE FOR CUTTING BEANS, PEEL FOR MARMALADE,
AND OTHER EDIBLES
"
This invention relates to a certain new or improved appliance for kitchen and
domestic uses generally, also in pickle and marmalade factories for cutting beans,
peel for marinalade, and other edibles into slices or strips, in number and in
quantity with greater facility, less labour, and in less time than by any present
method or appliance
The invention consists of an appliance or apparatus composed of four or any
desired number of cutting blades with stems of the same or of different thicknesses
to determine the distance the blades can be set apart.
The stems of these blades are so arranged that they can be temporarily fitted
into a handle and locked in position by a thumb button or pinching screw, the
shoulder of the bandle being slotted to receive the stems of the blades.
The slot is protected by a collar or ferrule affixed to the handle.
Instead of the stems being made to regulate or determine the distance the cutting
blades shall be apart, separate pieces can be inserted between every two stems for
the same purpose

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Clayforth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th September 1883.
1
GEORGE CLAYFORTH of 29 Tyrwhitt Road St Johns in the county of Kent
AN IMPROVED DOMESTIC APPLIANCE FOR CUTTING BEANS, PEEL FOR MARMALADE,
AND OTHER EDIBLES
This invention relates to a certain new or improved appliance for kitchen and
domestic uses generally also in pickle and marmalade factories, for cutting beans,
peel for marmalade and other edibles into slices or strips in number and in quantity
with greater facility less labour and in less time than by any present method or
appliance
The invention consists of an appliance or apparatus shown on the annexed
drawings composed of four or any desired number of cutting blades A, A, A, A
Figures 1 and 2 with stems B, B, B, B of the same thickness or, of different
thicknesses Figures 3, 4 and 5 to determine the distance the blades A A, A, A can
be set apart. The stems B, B, B, B, of these blades A, A, A, A are so arranged
that they can be temporarilly fitted into a handle C, C, Figures 1, 3 and 6 and
locked in position by a thumb button or pinching screw D Figures 1. 3 and 6 the
shoulder E of the handle Figure 7 being slotted at F to receive the stems B, B, B, B,
of the blades A, A, A, A.
The slot is protected by a collar or ferrule G affixed to the handle by a pin H.
Instead of the stems being made to regulate or determine the distance the cutting
blades shall be apart separate pieces I, I Figure 3 can be inserted between every
two stems for the same purpose.
I do not limit myself to the employment of four blades in the handle because
the number of them may be varied as desired. It is however essential that the
cutting edges of the several blades be set to the same level to ensure a clean cut
and severance of the edible into strips which setting can be readily effected by
resting them on a flat surface while the pinching screw is being tightened up.
I have shown the blades as removable from the handle but they may be fixed
in a handle or set in one like the blades of a clasp knife so as to be closed into the
handle when not in use, but in this as in the former described apparatus, the
blades must be all alike and set with their cutting edges to the same level.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim.
The apparatus shown on the annexed drawings composed of cutting blades of the
same kind and all level with each other as described for cutting edibles into strips
as set forth
In witness whereof I the said George Clayforth have hereunto set my hand
and seal this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
eight hundred and eighty three