US610275A - Noodle-cutter - Google Patents

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srncrrrcATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,275, dated september e, 189s.

'Appucanon tied April 2o, 1897. seria No. 632,924.. (No mean.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTHA J. NEUEN- scHwANDnR, a citizen of the United States, i and a resident of Vera Cruz, in the countyl of Wells and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNooelle-Cutters; and I d o hereby declare the foli lowing 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. i

My invention relates to improvements in noodle-cutters of the class which are operated as a hand device, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive implement by means of which noodle-strips may be quickly and conveniently formed or cut from the dough.

To the accomplishment of this end my invention consists in a device combining certain novel details of construction, parts, and combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically 'pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a top plan View of a noodle-cutter constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a side view of the same, and Fig. 3 an enlarged detail plan view showing the relation of the two sets of knives or cutters on their shafts.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings. A

The numeral l designates the handle, which may be made of any suitable material, as wood, and is provided with a hollow shank 2 and a detachable bolt 3, passing through a suitable transverse hole, the bolt having a securing-nut 3a.

The knife-frames are two in number, each consisting of two separable arms havingeach' 1 ing the knives when they require resharpening or thorough cleansing. The frame cardle outward at opposite sides and bend forward, extending inpparallel lines beyond the rear set of knives and then bend down a suitable distance, as at 6, terminating in socket ends 9, which vreceive the ends of the shaft 7. The other frame, which carries the rear set of knives, consists of the arms 4 and 5, which are formed ysimilarly to the others, but narrower laterally and shorter, so that the frame is free within the limits of the other frame, both being on the same horizontal plane, but the bentdown extremities of the inner frame are shorter than those of the other to com pensate for a difference in the diameterI of the knives of the rear set on the shaft 8, the latter being retained in the same manner as the other shaft in socket ends 0. The shaft 7 is the forward and, the shaft 8 the rear as the device is operated. They are arranged parallel with each other transversely to the line of motion, and are preferably prevented from rotating by suitable means, as squared ends in squared sockets. 4The frames are made of slightly-yielding or spring-like material. Each of the said shafts is provided with a series comprising a set of disk-shaped knives 10 and 1l, revolubly mounted thereon.

The knives are composed of any suitable material desired. The diameter of the knives is uniform in each set, but the diameter of those composing the rear set is somewhat greater than that of those in the forward set, for reasons hereinafter explained. It would be difcult to cut the stripsof dough as narrow as might be desired in one operation or by one set of knives, for the reason that the knives would of necessity be so close as to cause trouble through the dough becoming wedged between them and the strips would thus bepicked up and torn. To obviate this, I space the knives so that the cutting edges in both sets arev as far apart as twice the width of the noodle desired, and one set of knives is arranged so that the lines of the cutting edges will be midway between the lilies of the cutting edges of the other set. The smaller knives are pushed in advance of the others, cutting out stripsl of double width, which naturally lie fiat on the cuttingboard,

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Hence the finished noodle will havea width equal to one-half the distance between two adjoining knives on either shaft. The knives of the rear set are of large diameter', so that they Will more readily shear and split the strips cut by the forward set than would small disks, the latt-er tending to push up the loose strips from the cutting-board, and thus split them irregularly.

It Will be observed that in providing two independent fram es which are slightly `elastic both sets of knives are readily kept in contact with the table or cutting-board Without special care in maintaining the handle in a horizontal position.

I am aware that rotary cutters of uniform diameter for various purposes have been so arranged on parallel shafts that the cuttinglines of one set of disks are between the cutting-lines of the opposite set of disks, and I therefore do not claim such construction broadly; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hand implement for cutting noodles, and consisting of a handle, two elastic frames secured to said handle and each frame having extremities adapted to receive and secure a shaft end, one of said frames being of greater length and width than the other, a transverse shaft detachably secured at the said extremities of each of said frames and parallel one with the other, a series of disk-knives revolubly mounted on each of said shafts, the disks of one of said series being of greater diameter than that of the disks composing the other of said series and the said disks having thc greater diameter being adapted to split the strips or noodles formed by the disks of the opposite of said series of disks, substantially as shown and described.

2. AIn a hand implement for cutting noodles,

the combination of the handle having a hollow shank, the pair of elastic frames each consisting of two arms and detachabl y connected and secured in said hollow shank, one of said frames being of greater length than the other, a stationary shaft secured transversely at the extremities of each of said frames and parallel with each other, theseries of disk cutting knives of small diameter revolubly mounted on one of said shafts and the series of disk'cutting-knives of large diameter revolubly mounted on theother of said shafts and so arranged as to adapt them to split the noodle strips first formed by the series of vsmall disks, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a noodle-cutter for hand use, the combination of the handle l, the frames 4 5a and 4E 5 provided with downwardly-extending extremities and detachably secured to said handle, the transverse shafts mounted in said frame extremities, the cutting-disks lO revoluble on one of. said shafts and the cut-tingdisks ll having a greater diameter than said disks l0 and revolubly mounted on the other one of said shafts and arranged in relation to said disks l0 as shown,P substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereoll I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

BERTHA J. NEUENSGHWANDER.

Witnesses:

CLEMENTINA GRUBER, EMMA A. WALTEMATH.

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