The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

Clamp-on blade

Patent drawing of a hand-held sorghum stripping and cutting tool showing a long wooden handle attached to a hooked fixed blade and a pivoting jaw blade controlled by a lever, with a second close-up view of the blade mechanism.IMPROVEMENT IN IMPLEMENTS FOR STRIPPING AND CUTTING SORGHUMJames Guckian · July 17, 1866A hand-held curved spokeshave-type bench tool with a wooden handle, a curved metal segmental head fitted with two angled cutting bits held by clamp plates and screws, shown in perspective, cross-section, and longitudinal section views.IMPROVEMENT IN BENCH-TOOLS.James H. Lewis · January 21, 1879