A Cucumber and Potato Slicer.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Cucumber and Potato Slicer.
GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMORE of 20 Bateman Street in the Borough of
Cambridge, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows :-
The slicer is made of china or other material one foot long more or less, & about
five inches broad, the middle of which at least two & a half inches in width being
level from end to end on both sides of the level space steps are made, the steps
opposite each other being level or of the same height from the middle.
The first pair of steps to be of an inch high, the second pair 16 of an inch
high, the third pair of an inch, the fourth pair of an inch, the fifth & sixth
pairs in proportion.
An ordinary knife being placed on the pair of steps corresponding with the
thickness of the slices desired. The material to be cut being placed end ways on
the middle of the slicer & moved towards the knife, after the potato is cut through
it is returned to its former position & the operation is rapidly repeated.
Dated this 16th day of June 1894
G. F. WHITMORE.
A Cucumber and Potato Slicer.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMORE, of 20 Bateman Street, in the Borough of
Cambridge, Gentleman, 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 object of this invention is to facilitate the cutting up of cucumbers or
potatoes into slices with an ordinary table knife. Examples of slicers constructed
according to my invention are shewn in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a plan view and Figure 2 a vertical longitudinal section of a slicer
adapted for slicing cucumbers and delivering the slices as they are cut into an
ordinary plate.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views of a slicer by which slices of two different
thicknesses can be cut.
The slicers may be formed of china, glass or other suitable material. The slicer
shewn at Figures 1 and 2 is formed with a flat surface a having on each side of it
upwardly projecting flanges b. In each flange is a step or notch b¹ for the blade of
an ordinary table knife c to rest on. The notches are formed so that the blade of
the knife lies across and somewhat above the flat surface as shown with the edge
of the blade parallel. with the flat surface and at a distance above it equal to the
thickness of the slices to be cut. The bottom of the notch in each side flange is
slightly inclined to the flat surface so that the upper surface of the knife blade may
be parallel with the flat surface a in front of it. Below the knife blade the surface a
is cut away or made to incline somewhat downwards as shown at Figure 2 so that
the slices as they are cut may pass away freely below the knife.

page_text: The table knife is held in one hand by its handle and the blade made to rest on
the bottom of the notches in the side flanges with the back of the blade resting
against the step at the rear end of the notch.
The cucumber to be cut into slices is held down endways by the other hand on
to the flat surface a and moved along it towards and past the knife edge-a slice is
in this way cut off which passes below the knife-the cucumber is then returned to
its first position and the operation is rapidly repeated. As the slices continue to be
cut they slide back over the flat surface in rear of the knife and pass off from the
rear end of the slicer. In Figures 1 and 2 the rear end of the slicer is shewn to be
formed in such a way that it may overlap the edge of a plate so that the slices pass
off from the slicer into the plate.
The slicer shown at Figures 3 and 4 is constructed in a similar manner to that
shown at Figures 1 and 2 except that it is made longer and is made with two or
more notches in each side flange at different heights above the flat surfaces a in
front of them so that when the knife blade is made to rest on one of the notches in
each side flange one thickness of slice can be cut and when it is made to rest in the
other of the notches another thickness of slice can be cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A cucumber or potato slicer constructed with upwardly projecting Ranges on
each side of a flat surface and with steps or notches in these side flanges so formed
that when the blade of a knife is made to rest on them the edge of the blade is
parallel with the flat surface and at a distance above it equal to the thickness of
slice to be cut.
2. Cucumber or potato slicers constructed substantially as herein before described
and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 16th day of March 1805
G. F. WHITMORE.