The Apple Parer Patent Archive

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Apple parer

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, 1853Patent drawing of an 1856 apple-paring machine showing a hand-crank driven shaft, a sliding carriage with paring and slicing knives, a coiled return spring, and a semicylindrical apple holder, illustrated in plan, side, and end views with detail figures of the latch and holder.MACHINE FOR PARING APPLESCharles P. Carter · November 18, 1856Three 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 19th-century apple-paring machine showing a base with uprights supporting a sliding mandrel and fork, a spring-loaded cutter rod with oblique serrated feed wheels, and a hand crank, illustrated in end, side, and top views.MACHINE FOR PARING APPLES.B. F. Joslyn · March 17, 1857Line drawing of a hand-cranked cast-iron apple parer showing a curved toothed sector, gear train, hand crank handle, and a rotating knife mechanism, with a second side-view drawing showing the clamping base and vibratory frame.IMPROVED APPLE-PARERJonathan White · June 3, 1862Patent drawing of a hand-cranked cast-iron apple parer showing a circular gear mechanism, rotating fork, and spring-loaded knife arm mounted on an upright post with a clamp screw at its base.IMPROVED APPLE-PARERFrederick W. Hudson · December 2, 1862Patent 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, 1864Patent 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, 1869Patent 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, 1874Technical patent drawing of a hand-crank apple-parer mechanism showing a threaded fork-shaft, pivoting nut lever, locking bolt, cam lever, and core-pusher disk, with multiple perspective views labeled Fig. 1 through Fig. 9.APPLE-PARER.Adolph Rippien · July 17, 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 of a 19th-century cast-iron apple paring and slicing machine mounted on wooden standards, showing a hand crank, gear train, sliding table with knife-stock, rotating fork, and a wire cup device for loading apples.APPLE PARING AND SLICING MACHINEWilliam Taylor Elliott · April 14, 1885Patent drawing of a hand-cranked apple paring machine showing a fork-spindle with crank handle, a cast frame with rack and cam disk, a swinging paring knife arm, and a coring/slicing knife, with detail views of the knife blank and mechanism sections.MACHINE FOR PARING APPLESL. Herbert Scott · June 2, 1885Technical patent drawing of a 19th-century fruit-paring machine showing a geared frame, reciprocating knife-carriage on rails, a curved crank handle, worm gears, and detail insets of the pivoted knife and worm-rack mechanisms.FRUIT-PARER.William A. C. Oaks · August 12, 1890Patent drawing of an elongated metal tube shaped like a bullet with a pointed oblique-cut tip, showing a narrow knife-blade set into a longitudinal slot along its length, with cross-section and blank-form views below.PARER AND CORER.Philemon T. Gates · August 23, 1892