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Technical 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, 1890

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