The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

19th century kitchen tool

Technical patent drawing showing five views of a cast-iron apple-paring machine, including a semicircular gear rack, a vertical lever handle, a rotary fork with prongs, and a curved spring-loaded knife arm.MACHINE FOR PARING APPLES.William H. Lazelle · January 25, 1853Three mechanical drawings of a 19th-century hand-cranked apple parer showing a top view, side elevation, and end view with a curved slide rod, paring fork, knife carriage, screw shaft, and crank handle labeled with reference letters A through T.MACHINE FOR PARING APPLES.David H. Whittemore · February 17, 1857Patent drawing of a hand-cranked cast-iron apple parer showing a forked mandrel, geared arc sector, cam-driven knife arm, and clamp base, with two operating positions and a detail view of the cam plate.IMPROVED APPLE-PARERJonathan White · February 16, 1864Two patent line drawings of a 19th-century cast-iron apple-paring machine: Fig. 2 shows a front view with a semicircular gear rack, rotating fork, and curved knife arm; Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the same mechanism with labeled gears, cam, knife-rod, and handle, including dotted lines indicating the knife's swing path.IMPROVED APPLE-PARERE. L. Pratt · August 23, 1864Four mechanical drawings labeled Fig. 1 through Fig. 4 showing a cast metal knife-stock with a curved bent arm, pivot joints, and a small lipped knife blade, viewed from front, end, top, and in cross-section.IMPROVED FRUIT-PARING MACHINE.William M. Howland · August 30, 1864An engraving showing a hand gripping an adjustable paring knife while peeling a potato, above an exploded diagram labeling the handle, chamfered edge, adjustable gage, blade, and scoop components.IMPROVEMENT IN PARING-KNIVES.Jacob Lebeau · July 10, 1866Patent drawing of a cylindrical fruit-paring machine with a crank handle, showing an outer perforated shell, internal grating cylinder, and a sliding discharge door at the base.IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PARING FRUITW. H. Williams · March 1, 1870Patent drawing of a hand-held fruit and vegetable parer showing a wooden handle, a metal ferrule with a wire guard, and a pointed double-edged blade, along with separate detail views of the ferrule, handle shank, and blade.IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PARERSTheodore Searing · December 5, 1871Patent drawing of an apple-parer showing a revolving reel with multiple forks, gears, and a cutter slide mechanism, plus a detail side view and section.IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE-PARERS.Solomon E. T. Dodson · August 4, 1874Patent drawing showing two hands holding an orange while inserting a small pointed cutting tool with a shielded blade into its rind, alongside enlarged detail views of the handle, cutter, and shield mechanism.FRUIT-CUTTER.James W. Grant · January 5, 1892Patent drawing of a hinged fruit knife with a small tubular cutter and gage on one end and a curved rind-lifting extension on the other, shown in use on an orange in several positions.FRUIT-KNIFE.William Storrs Cooper · May 28, 1895