US1266672A - Garnishing-tool. - Google Patents

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1. cpEoBsTER; GARNISHING TOOL.

` vF'PLICATICON FlLED DEC. 9* 1916.

Patented May 21,19%.

INVENTOR v JOHN C. IEOBSTER, 01E' PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVJI. y

GNISHING-TOL To all whom t may concern:

.Be it known .that l JOHN C. FoRs'rER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Pittsburgh, in the county. of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Garnishin'g-Tools, of which the following is a Speci- L ication.

The object of this invention is to provide a household tool .of improved construction for cutting vegetables, fruits, etc., in fluted slices, the invention having particular reference to the arrangement of the handle with reference to the blade for strengthening the latter and' at the same time so located as to lnot obstruct the view of the tool necessary for directing its slicing strokes.

ln the accompanying drawings Figure 1 clined with relation to its top edgeto produce a shearing effect and thereby facilitate the slicing operation.

The handle consists of two shank-like por tions 5 and 6, each formed with an angularly bent. extremity -7 and these extremities are embraced by' or secured in the end flutes or corrugations 3f of the blade. Shank portions 5 and 6 project horizontally` from one` side of the blade, with ortion 'extended across and above the bla e and parallel with its top ledge as indicated at 5 in order to reach the distant portion of the Ablade to which it is secured. The elongated shank 5 and the relatively short shank 6 `merge into the grip forming loop 8in the construction y .handle also being provided with an an Amember lying within the inner flu'teo Specication of Letters Patent. Patented May 2li., fllll. Application led December 9, 1918. Serial No. 135,983. i

shown in Fig.- 1,-the handle elements thus being formed of a singlepiece of stout wire. With portion 5 above and paralleling the top edge ofthe blade, the latter is materially strengthened or stiffened throughout its horizontal dimension, and at .the same time the handle or-grip is located at one side of the blade and out of the way of the slicing operation and also out of the line of vision in directing the blade through the article beingsliced. Y

In the construction shown in Fig. 3, a

.wooden handle-grip 9 of conventional form is substituted for grip 8, and when this form of handle is employed the shank portions 5 and 6 are simply projected thereinto a distance suflicient to obtain-the requisite hold.

l claim:

l. A slicing knife consisting of an ap proximately straight thin sheet metal. blade transversely iuted from end to end with the flutes extending from one to the other, and a handle projecting in' line with said blade and beyond an upper corner thereof and provided with a stiffenin meni- -ber extending the entire'length of sai blade and at its outer end bent so as to lie within the cxtreme outer flute ofsaid blade, szid ar said blade.

2. A slicing knife consisting of a sheet metal blade transversely corrugated to form a longitudinally luted cutting edge, and a handle projecting in line with said blade beyond an upper corner the corrugations of the blade; said handle being provided with' blade securing portions standing at right angles to the ma]or axis of the handle and secured within theextreme outer corrugatiqns of the blade.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature in presence of `two witnesses.

f L JOHN C. FORSTER.

Witnesses-c l J. M. Nnsrr, ALEX. S. BON.

thereof and at right angles to.

longitudinal 'edge i

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