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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