The Apple Parer Patent Archive

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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, 1857Line drawing of a reciprocating sawmill carriage showing a plan view with side rails, guide ribbons, and an adjustable tail block, alongside a side elevation and a cross-sectional detail of the guide mechanism.Reciprocating Saw Mill.Thomas Miles · October 13, 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, 1864Line drawing of a hand-cranked cylindrical machine with a wooden frame, showing a punctured metal cylinder, an internal rotating disk on a vertical shaft, and a crank handle connected via bevel gears, depicted in front, sectional, and top views.MACHINE FOR SKINNING VEGETABLESOscar Hase · July 11, 1865Patent drawing of a cylindrical fruit-peeling machine with a perforated interior, a central rotating diaphragm shaft, a hand crank and gear assembly at the top, and a funnel-shaped base leading to a collection box, alongside a separate detail view of a roughened stave.IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PEELING FRUIT.Charles Lehman · June 15, 1869Patent 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, 1870Two mechanical line drawings of a 19th-century cast-iron fruit parer: Fig. 1 shows a top view with an arc-shaped toothed sector, gears, a pivoted knife lever, and a wooden crank handle; Fig. 2 shows a rear elevation with the rotary fork, gear train, clamp screw, and table-clamp base.IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-PARERSLeander S. Woodbury · December 20, 1870Patent 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 of a hand-cranked fruit-paring machine showing a geared drive-wheel, twin feed-screws, a fork-shaft with spring prongs, and an oscillating paring knife mounted on a sliding frame.FRUIT-PARING MACHINEWilliam A. C. Oaks · April 7, 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 a cylindrical potato-peeling machine with a hand-crank wheel on top, a vertical rasping chamber, a rotary bottom disk with radial file-like blades, and detail views of the individual spring blades and gearing.MACHINE FOR PEELING POTATOES, &c.Emil Jaeger · August 14, 1894Patent drawing of a cylindrical decorticating machine showing a vertical section with internal corrugated walls, gears, and crank handle in Figure 1, and a plan view of the large radial-corrugated rotating disk with a hand crank in Figure 2.DECORTICATING-MACHINE.David Buist and Edward Godfried Schmidt · December 17, 1895Patent 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, 1896