The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

19th century patent

Three line drawings of a curved metal hand-worn corn husking device, each showing a clasp shaped to fit around the fingers with a pointed hooking-tooth labeled B, and lettered parts D, P, H, R, S, and E indicating the clasp, opening, and tooth in different configurations for bare hand, gloved, and mitten use.IMPROVED DEVICE FOR HUSKING CORN.A. W. Brinkerhoff · September 2, 1862Patent drawing of a curved hook-bladed cane knife with a wooden handle, showing a pivoted spring jaw with a semicircular griper and forked ends near the blade's base, labeled with letters A through E and d, d prime, and w.IMPROVEMENT IN CANE STRIPPER AND KNIFE COMBINED.Robert Conarroe · July 3, 1866Line drawing of a long-handled hand tool with two hinged jaws near the top, each jaw containing a circular edge-shaped opening for stripping cane, a blade at one end, and a cord with a leather loop running along the handle to a ring at the base.IMPROVEMENT IN CANE-STRIPPERJohn C. Brown · October 1, 1867Patent drawing showing a leather glove worn on a hand with metal claws attached to the thumb and fingers, alongside separate views of the thumb cot and glove finger pieces with hook-like claws and buttonholes.IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HUSKERSHenry L. Hall · April 6, 1869Patent drawing of a knife blade with a bent wire guide attached near its cutting edge via two pins that fit into slots on the blade, shown in five views including assembled, edge-on, and disassembled states.IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE-PARERSGottlieb H. Wilde · July 6, 1869A hand-held tool with a wooden handle attached to a curved metal plate bearing two pivoting crescent-shaped knives, fixed blades, and small hooks, forming a pair of shears for husking corn.IMPROVED HAND CORN-HUSKERSamuel L. Bligh · August 16, 1870Patent drawing of a hand-cranked potato peeling machine showing a potato speared on a fork with a curved knife on a screw-driven frame, plus a detail view of the knife-holder mechanism.POTATO-PEELING MACHINEJohn Albert Moffat · February 27, 1883Patent drawing of a slender tubular hand tool with a turned wooden handle, showing front and side views with labeled parts a, b, c, m, and a cutting edge e at the tip, plus two small circular cross-sections and a modified elongated version.APPLE CORER, PARER, AND SLICER.William E. Brock · February 19, 1884Patent drawing showing a hand wearing a curved metal corn-husking implement strapped across the palm with a toothed thimble on the thumb, alongside detached views of the sliding two-part frame and thimble.CORN-HUSKER.Theodor H. Mehring · August 14, 1888Patent drawing of a metal husking pin with a pointed tip, adjustable threaded sleeve, and looped finger straps secured by a buckle, shown in perspective and side-section views with a hand illustrated in dotted lines.HUSKING-PIN.Hazen H. Perkins · June 3, 1890A pen-and-ink patent drawing showing a human hand wearing a metal husking pin strapped around the forefinger, with additional detail views of the curved pin, adjustable strap, and staple fastening mechanism.CORN-HUSKER.Joe S. Cuttell · September 23, 1890Patent drawing showing an orange knife with a curved handle, a small right-angle cutting blade, and a longer concave loosening blade, illustrated both alone and in use scoring and peeling an orange.ORANGE-KNIFE.Charles A. Dietz · November 28, 1893Patent drawing of a hand-cranked vegetable parer with a clamp base gripping a table edge, a vertical standard supporting a spindle and knife arm, a horizontal rack-bar, and a ring-handled crank at the bottom.VEGETABLE-PARER.Carl Hugo Wolf · March 24, 1896Four line drawings show a bird-shaped sheet-metal orange knife with a handle, tongue, tooth, and flanged arm, used in sequence to cut, peel, and section an orange.ORANGE-KNIFE.Anna E. Drew · March 16, 1897Drawing of a leather hand-worn corn husking implement showing a curved hook mounted on a metal plate strapped across the palm and thumb with a buckle fastener at the wrist.CORN-HUSKING IMPLEMENT.Lewis F. Rife · August 2, 1898Patent drawing of a hand wearing a wire corn-husking device with a strap around the palm, a strap around the wrist, and curved hooks projecting near the base of the fingers.CORN HUSKERJohn J. McDonald · September 19, 1899