US286380A - boutell - Google Patents

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APPLE PARER. No. 286,380. Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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SPECiFIGATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 286,280, dated October a, 1883.

Application filed April 14, 1883. (Modem To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WM. .H. BOUTELL, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Antrim, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple Parers, Peelers, &c.; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a cross-section. Fig. 3 is a side view. Figs. 4 and .5 aredetail views.

This invention. has relation to appleparers; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended. I

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a. designates the frame of the machine, provided with a clamp, 11, having a setscrew, 0, by which the device may be secured to the edge of the table or other support. A

cam disk, d, is provided with guide-lugs e, e, and j, which engage guide-rods g and h of the frame a. A wormscrew, h, is journaled in this frame, and is provided at one end with a pinion, t, which meshes with a gear-wheel, It, provided with a crank-handle, Z. This gearwheel is has its bearing in an arm, k, which carries a bracket, m, in which the fork-shaft a is journaled. This fork-shaft a is provided with a pinion, 0, which meshes with the gear-wheel 7c and rotates the apple when placed on the fork. The cam-disk has an irregular cam, p, extending at right angles to its base and inclined upwardly from a point,

' q, to a point, r, thence extending in a horizontal line to a point, s, where it again inclines upwardly and extends horizontally, as shown.'

This irregular cam is on the front face of the cam-disk. Between this irregular cam p and the front face of the canrdisk is a slot or recess, t. A rack, a, is provided beneath the upper guide-rod of the frame, and a pinion, a, on a stud, b, passing through the center of the canrdisk, carries a disk, o, provided with bearinglugs w for the journals of the shaft a",

which carries the knife-arm z, the spring y, and the guide-arm 0, provided with the frictionrol1er d, which ,travels around the camdisk. The cam-disk, at the side opposite the gearing, is provided with an arm, f, to which the slicer g and corer h are bolted, as shown, and they necessarily travel with the disk as it is moved by the screw, a stud, i, engaging the threads to cause the movement of the disk in either direction, accordingly as the crank is turned. The rack and pinion cause the knife to be turned from its normal position,which is when the friction-roller rests upon the highest portion of the irregular cam. The shaft of the knife is located precisely above the center of the cam-disk, and when the gear-wheel is put in operation in a direction away from the operator the friction-wheel descends the'inclined irregular cam, travels around the disk, and passes beneath the cam' into the recess or slot until it reaches the end of said recess or slot, at which time the knife will have pared the apple, passing quite close to the stem and fork, and being then turned away from the apple in a direction toward the gear-wheel. As the'knife pares the apple the slicer and corer follow, and the apple is cut into strings and cored. By a reverse movement of the gear wheel the knife and slicer and corer are re turned to their normalpositions. The knife arm, being located centrally of the disk, enables me to pare closer to the stem of the ap ple, so. that the only rind left-is that which is removed with the core from the fork. The irregular cam, having the slot under which the guide-arm passes, provides for the rotary movement of the knife-arm when the gearing is operated in either direction. The advantage of paring'thus close to the core is obvious, and this can readily be done by means of the camdisk and the centrally-located knifearm at tached thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is,

1. In an appleparer, the combinatioinwith a sliding cam-disk, of a centrally-revolving knife-arm, a rotary fork, and mechanism for operating the same, substantially as specified.

2. In an apple-parer, the c0mbination,with a sliding disk carrying an irregular cam, provided with a recess between it and the face of the disk, a central rotating disk carrying a pivoted knife-arm, a g uide-arnihaving a friemg a central knife-arm, a-frictional-guide-arm,

| tion-r0ller at its end, and mechanism for opl erating the same, whereby the knife may be turned away from the fork after the apple has 5 been pared, substantially as specified.

In an apple-parer, the combinati0n,with the frame having guiderods, a rack, and Worm-screw, of a sliding cam-disk. having a stud engaging the threads of the screw, a pin 10 ion engaging the rack, a rotating disk carrysaine, substantially asspeeified.

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

WILLIAM H. B UTELL. \Vitnesses 4 PHILIP O. MAsI, Trmo. MUNGEN.

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