The Apple Parer Patent Archive

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Potato peeler

Patent drawing of a hand-cranked potato peeling machine showing a potato speared on a fork with a curved knife on a screw-driven frame, plus a detail view of the knife-holder mechanism.POTATO-PEELING MACHINEJohn Albert Moffat · February 27, 1883Patent 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 showing three elevation views (Figs. 1-3) of a potato-peeling knife with a tapered wooden handle, a pivoting peeling blade near the top, and a pointed corer-tip blade J, alongside detail views (Figs. 4-6) of the separate peeling blade and its ferrule bearing components.POTATO-PEELING KNIFEHerman G. Loeffler · February 16, 1897Patent drawing of a hand wearing a leather palm-mounted vegetable scraper with metal pin projections, shown in use scraping a potato over a bowl, plus detail views of the disk-shaped scraper body and its strap harness.VEGETABLE SCRAPER OR PEELER.Edward W. Milhado · April 25, 1911Line 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