Cabbage Cutting Machine (Patent No: 223230)

Inventor: Cherpech, Joseph

Location: Lethbridge

Comments: N/A

Description: Joseph Cherpech, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 29th August, 1922. Filed 20th September, 1918. Receipt No.299,526

Claim –1. A vegetable cutter including side rails, rack bars mounted for reciprocation on said rails, a platform carried by said rack bars, cutting knives carried by said platform, a hopper secured above the platform having an open bottom located slightly above the path of movement of said knives, and simultaneous operating means at opposite sides of the platform.

2. A vegetable cutter including side rails, rack bars mounted for reciprocation on said rails, a platform carried by said rack burs, a cutting knife carried by said platform, a hopper secured above the platform having an open bottom positioned slightly above the path of movement of said knives, driving sears at the opposite sides of the platform in constant mesh with said rack bars, pinions operatively connected between the said sears, and turning means for either of said gears at will whereby the said platform is adapted for reciprocation during the cutting operation.

4. A cabbage cutter comprising a frame having spaced rails, upright sides upon said rails between the ends thereof a, hopper secured between said sides above the plane of and centrally between said rails, rollers journalled in said rails, grooved rack bars shiftable longitudinally upon said rollers, a platform carried by the said rack bars, cutting knives carried by said platform adapted for passing back and forth beneath the open bottom of the hopper upon the reciprocation of the platform, vertical braces centrally connecting the said rails and sides, a gear for each of said rack bars journalled upon the adjacent brace, a shaft carried by one side of the hopper, pinions at the ends of said shaft meshing with said gears, and an operating crank adapted for turning either of said gears at will.

Claims allowed, 4.