The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

Corer

Patent 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, 1857An engraving showing a hand gripping an adjustable paring knife while peeling a potato, above an exploded diagram labeling the handle, chamfered edge, adjustable gage, blade, and scoop components.IMPROVEMENT IN PARING-KNIVES.Jacob Lebeau · July 10, 1866Three drawings show a hand-held tube-and-handle tool being pushed through a knobby potato, a cross-section of the tube inside the potato, and a cross-section of the potato showing the resulting through-hole.IMPROVEMENT IN POTATO-PROBES.John A. Beal · March 7, 1871Patent drawing of a slotted paring knife with a wooden handle marked B, showing side, cross-section, and longitudinal section views, plus a diagram of the blade peeling a potato with a pointed coring tip.IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE PARERS AND CORERSWilliam E. Brock · July 17, 1877Patent drawing of a hand-cranked cast-metal vegetable parer with a clamp base, geared crank mechanism, leading screw, and pivoted V-shaped paring knife assembly, shown in front elevation (Fig. 1) and internal cross-section (Fig. 2).Vegetable-ParerHenry Ehmann · April 1, 1879Patent 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, 1885Patent drawing showing three parer-slicer-corer tools with grooved blades, handles, and coring rings, plus hand-drawn scenes of the tools coring an apple and removing specks from a potato.PARER, SLICER, AND CORER.Philemon Tenney Gates · April 6, 1886Patent drawing showing multiple views of a tubular vegetable parer and corer with an obliquely cut end and a bent knife-blade mounted along the tube, plus several handled and flat-stock variations labeled Fig. I through Fig. XIII.VEGETABLE PARER AND CORER.Philemon Tenney Gates · November 18, 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, 1892Four 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, 1897Patent drawing of a hand-held rotary coring tool with a conical cutting tip, a threaded shaft with a coiled return spring, a sliding sleeve with curved finger arms, and a thumb loop at the base, shown in side view, cross-section, and top view.INSTRUMENT FOR REMOVING EYES FROM FRUIT OR VEGETABLES.Frederick G. Yawman · April 18, 1905