US1414372A - Green-corn implement - Google Patents

Description

W. ()LCOTT.

GREEN CORN IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1922.

Patented May 2, 1922.

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To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that WALTER OLCQTT, a citi zen of the United States, residing atSouth Manchestenin the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, has invented certain new. and useful Improvements in 'Green Corn Implements, of which the-following-is This invention relates implement. Among the objects of the 1nvention are the provision of a tool of this character which can be inexpensively made,

and which can be easily and readily operated in performing one of several functions, one ofthese desirably, being in the present casethe cutting off of'the tops of the kernels from the cob, and another being the cutting through-the kernels and subsequently squeezing the contents of the kernels therefrom.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification I have shown in detail one ofthe several forms of embodiment of the invention-which to enable those'skilled in the art to practice the same will be set forth fully in the following description. I am in no sense restricted to this showing. a number of particulars within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description. I

Referring to said drawings Figure 1 is a face view of the implement v as seen from one side thereof.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation as viewed from the right in Fig. 1.

- Fig.3 is a side elevation.

Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views show-- ing the different actions 'of the implement upon an ear of corn.

The implement involves a blade member such as 2 and which may be of sheet steel or other proper material. At its back end it has a tang 3 fitting a notch or kerf 4 in the forward end of the handle 5 which may be of wood or other proper substance. Usually a rivet 6 is provided to hold the blade'member in rigid assembled relation with the handle 5, the rivet extending through the tang 3. V

The body of the blade member 2 is as shown, practically flat and has along opposite edges and virtually co-extensive therewith the flanges 7 and 8. The flange 7 is desirably but not imperatively at practically right angles to the body of the blade member, while the flange 8 is at an obtuse. angle thereto, the ed to a green corn I may depart therefrom in g I S pecification of Letters Patent. I i 2 Application filed January 6, 1922. Serial no. 527,316. I 1 r ing straight;

i. The blade member 2' has'as shownat one side of its longitudinalfmedian line1the transverse itS- 9,and the connecting slit/1 0 the stock '11 -withinf said slits beingbent from the y" of the blade member t p duce thecutting blade 11, the free portion of which is beveled to produce a cutting'edge;

The free edge of the cutting blade ll' is slightly back of the flange or lip 7 and is in parallelism therewith.

The blade member 2in adjacence'to the bent or curved flange or lip; 8 has a longitudinal row of practically segmental slots 12 the stock from which producesa-row of longitudinal and somewhat triangular teeth 13 adjacent to the flange or lip 8, the for-. ward sides of these teeth beingbeveled to produce cutting edges. 1

In Figs. 4: and 5-I showthe different ac -f tions of the implement. In Fig.4 the flange 7 is at the front, the blade member 2 resting. upon the kernels, the tops of some which have already been cut off as the implement Y the same observation applying to the fla g I or hp 8. In this case as the blade member.

2 is advanced, the forward cutting edges of the teeth out transversely through the kerstraight edge, squeezes the substance from the kernels.

tion taken in connection with the annexed;

drawing that. the. implement involves a handle provided with a blade member which has on one side of it a blade and is provided at the rear of the blade with a squeezing portion which as shown is in the form of a .95 nels of corn and the flange 7 or rather its flange, the blade memberhaving on-its opa second squeezing port-ion also'in the form of a flange, the two flanges extendingpracticallyin opposite directions, hat I claim is: V

1. An implement of the class ,described" comprising a handle provided with a blade 7 member, the blademember having at one side thereof a bladeand'pi'ovide'd at the rear of the blade with a squeezing portion, theblade member having on its opposite side a row of teeth and also having back of the teeth a squeezing portion. l

2. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, orovided with a blade member, the blade member having on one side thereof a blade and provided at the V rear of theblade with a flange constituting a squeezing port-ion, the blade member havi ing on its opposite side a row of teethand also having back of theteeth a second flange disposed approximately oppositely to the 3. 'An implement of, the class described comprising a handle provided with a blade member having out therefrom a blade which is disposed on'one side thereof and the cut ting edge of which is at one side oi" the longitudina l median line of the blade member, the latter .having on the same s1de as the blade, a'fiange constituting a squeezing portion,-the opposite side ofthe blade member having a row of teeth, at the opposite side of said longitudinal median line and also having on the same side as theiteeth a'fiange,

the two flanges being located .at opposite sides oi'the longitudinal median line,

Intestimonywhereof I afiix my signature.

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