The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

Agricultural tool

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 of a metal hand-armor device with hinged finger, wrist, palm, and thumb plates connected by straps and a spring catch, shown both as a side view attached to a hand and as a flat perspective of the plate assembly.IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES FOR HUSKING CORN.Harvey Yeaman · February 22, 1876A patent drawing showing a cone-shaped cane-stripping device with converging spring blades mounted on the edge of a wooden table, alongside a cutaway sectional view revealing the internal follower and blade arrangement.CANE-STRIPPER.Richard P. Sorrels · February 28, 1888