The Apple Parer Patent Archive

The cast-iron ingenuity of the American kitchen

Slicer

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, 1866Patent 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 a hand gripping a table knife fitted with a comb-like slicing attachment along the blade, plus detailed cross-section views of the slotted frame and twisted cutting blades.SLICERFrederick H. Miller · September 11, 1934