US282088A - Device for cutting yeast - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

L. KASEHAGEN'& H. WIETHEGBR.

DEVICE FOR CUTTING YEAST. No. 282,088, Patented July 31, 1883. V

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'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEO KASEHAGEN AND HENRY WIETHEGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR CUTTING YEAST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,088, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed May 25, 1883. (No model.)

particularly intended for retail dealersto par-- cel. yeast that they buy in large or pound. cakes and sell in small quantities.

Our invention therefore consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and specifically claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the yeast-cutting frame; Fig. 2, a similar view of the guide-frame; Fig. 3, a cross-section of the cutting-frame on line at a: in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a cake of yeast as divided by the cuttingrframe into twenty-eight (more or less) uniform parts.

Corresponding letters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A denotes the cutter-frame, that consists of a rectangular wooden frame composed of two longitudinal bars, a a, and of two end bars, I) and b, which latter with one end project beyond bar a. This frame A is perforated with a series of small holes at proper positions, through which are strung cross-wires c, that are parallel with the end bars, I) b, and equal distances apart to form seven (more or less) divisions, and is stretched a wire, d, to be centrally located between and parallel with bars a a, that subdivides the spaces between wires 0 into two rows of equal width. Another wire, (2, is stretched between the projecting ends of end bars, I) b, to be parallel with bar a, and the same distance from such bar a that central wire, d, is from either bar a or a. These wires, as will be noticed, are all stretched over one side of frame A to be on the same plane.

B is the guide-frame, consisting of a board, f, having secured to each end a rectangular upwardly-projecting board, g. This frame B is exteriorly the exact size of the rectangular space between bars a and c and I) and b of frame A,, for such frame A is to fit over and slide on frame 13, and to be guided by the end boards, which latter in their center are slit vertically with a saw to provide a passage for wire (1. The board f has alongitudinal groove, h, cut centrally in line with the slits in end boards, and has cut siX transverse grooves, 1', corresponding in position with wires 0 of frame A, which wires, with placing such frames together, will enter such grooves.

M denotes the cake of yeast that is furnished by the manufacturer or wholesale grocer in a solid mass of, say, one pound in weight, and which the'retailer divides into twenty-eight parts (more or less) by first placing the cake upon frame B between the end boards, g, and by setting the frame A over such end boards and pushing it down until the wires have reached board f and entered the grooves, whereby such cake is divided into fourteen (more or less) parts, and then by turning the cake on its edge and by pushing the wire 6 vertically down through the center line of such cake, whereby the bar a forms the guide or gage, each part is subdivided and cut to form two parcels of equal weight again.

The yeast was formerly parcelled by the grocer with a common knife when the pieces were uncertain as to uniformity, and the same knife being frequently employed for cutting or slicing other products, the-yeast separated therewith was not very inviting for the required purposes, while a cutter of the above description cannot readily be used for other purposes than what it is made for, and therefore is more likely to be kept in a clean condition for ready use.

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