The Apple Parer Patent Archive

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Kitchen tool

Patent 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, 1869Three 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 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 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 showing an orange knife with a curved handle, a small right-angle cutting blade, and a longer concave loosening blade, illustrated both alone and in use scoring and peeling an orange.ORANGE-KNIFE.Charles A. Dietz · November 28, 1893Patent 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, 1896Line drawing of a hand-held peeling and shredding tool with an oval wire handle, a curved U-shaped blade with a slotted cutting edge, and a finger rest, shown peeling a potato and in several plan and sectional views illustrating the blade's rotating and sliding shaft mechanism.PEELING AND SHREDDING DEVICEFerdinand E. Fender · February 25, 1941