US1281250A - Apple-slicing machine. - Google Patents

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W. H. EWELL.

APPLE SLICING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.8. 191s Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

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APPLE-SLICING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

Application filed August 8, 1918. Serial No. 248,820.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL H. EWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Cruz, in the county of Santa Cruz and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apple-Slicing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in machines for slicing fruit and vegetables. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of this character, which will pare, core and cut an apple or other fruit or vegetable into slices suitable for drying and will be simple in construction and operation.

I have herein shown my invention as applied to what is known as the Rival apple parer, manufactured by the Boutell Manufacturing Company, of Rochester, New York, and for which United States Patent No. 405,825, was granted to IV. H. Boutell June 25th, 1889.

Said patented machine cores and pares an apple and also makes therein a helical cut, extending inwardly to the hole cored out.

My present invention also cuts the apple longitudinally, thereby causing it to be separated into slices convenient for drying.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of my machine; Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial transverse vertical section thereof on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3

= is a portion of an apple cut by improved slicing machine.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a rotary fork upon which an apple is impaled, and upon which it is rotated about an axis extending in the direction of the core.

2 indicates a paring knife carried at the lower end of an arm 3, which arm is pivoted at its upper end on a horizontal arm 4 extending from a shaft 5, said shaft 5 and arm 4 being adapted to be moved longitudinally and, when so moved, being rotated by means of a traveling pin 6 engaging a stationary recess or cam 7.

A spring 8 attached to an outward extension 9 from said arm 4 presses the lower end of the arm 3 inwardly and therefore presses the paring knife 2 against the apple and also provides for adjustment of the pare'r 2 to conform to the size of the apple.

11 indicates a corer, of approximately semi-circular cross section, held in place by a U-bolt 12 and a tube 13 within the corer, and carried by a carriage 14 movable longitudinally and horizontally, upon which carriage said corer can also swing in a vertical plane. 15 indicates a slicer, which moves on the same carriage as the corer, and is located just in advance of the front end of the corer. Its cutting edge is directed transversely to the motion of the carriage 14. As the apple turns with the fork, said slicer makes a helical cut therein extending from its circumference to the central hole cut out by the corer. On the rearward motion of the carriage the apple is reversed from the fork by the corer and the slicer which has finished its helical out.

All of the above is merely the old construction disclosed in said patent and forms no part of my present invention. I

In my invention I secure to a member 15 of the stationary frame 14, by means of bolts 16 or any other suitable means, a knife 17, of which the lower portion is in a vertically and longitudinally extending plane, its cutting edge being directed in the same way as that in which the corer advances to cut out the core of the apple.

The tube 13 is fitted in the upper part of its wall with a slot 18 extending from the front or advancing end of said tube a sufficient distance to prevent the motion of the corer being impeded by said knife 17.

On the rearward movement of the carriage, carrying with it the apple on the corer, the knife 17, being stationary, makes a longitudinal out 20 therein. As this knife 17 is of such length that said longitudinal cut extends inwardly from the circumference of the apple to the cored out hole, it is evident that all the helical coils 21 formed in the apple by the helical cut are'cut across by the longitudinal cut and are thereby separated from each other.

I thus provide means whereby an apple is not only cored and pared but is also separated into slices of a convenient form for drying.

I claim 1. In a slicing machine for fruits and vegetables, in combination with means for making a central hole extending through the fruit or vegetable, and a helical cut therein extending from its circumference to the central hole, means for cutting longitudinally all the coils made by the helical cut.

2. In a slicing machine for fruits and vegetables, in combination with means for rotating said fruit or vegetable, a corer for cutting out a core therefrom, a slicer, and a longitudinally reciprocable carriage which carries said corer and slicer, said slicer having its cutting edge directed transversely to the motion of the carriage, whereby a helical cut is made in the fruit or vegetable, a knife having its cutting edge directed in the opposite Way to the rearward motion of the carriage, and arranged to cut said fruit longitudinally on its rearward movement on the corer.

W. H. EWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. i

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