Monroe
This
Monroe Brothers slow return apple parer is petite, well engineered, and aesthetically
pleasing.
The hand-driven gear turns a small table gear
that rotates a turntable. Hidden on the underside of the turntable is
a semicircular gear meshed with teeth on another semicircular gear
that is part of the paring arm
apparatus. As the turntable rotates, these two semi-circular gears rotate
in opposite directions, thus the paring arm travels in the opposite direction
of the turntable and pares the apple. After
three
turns
of
the crank an extension on the paring arm meets an incline or cam on the turntable
pushing it away from the apple. At this point, the half gear on the paring arm apparatus disengages with the half gear on the turntable. A tooth on the paring arm half gear now slips between two lone teeth on the periphery of the turntable's underside. The turntable now returns the paring arm apparatus to its starting position with one-half turn of the drive wheel.
This parer is marked MONROE BROTHERS FITCHBURG, MASS. PATENT
SEPT. 9, 1856 and PATENTED MAY 6, 1856, SEPT. 9, 1856 AUG. 21, 1866.
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