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Tilted Split-Frame

Tilt-Frame Turn Table Apple Parer

Goodell and Robb further modified the "Split-Frame" by tilting the turntable. This allows the parings to fall onto the table, so that they do not clog the gears. Notice they went back to a raised frame and used the same mechanism for the push-off as described earlier for the Heavy Frame.

This parer is marked PATENTED JUNE 17 & DEC. 16, 1856. TURN TABLE APPLE PARER MANFD BY LOCKEY & HOWLAND. PAT. NOV. 22, 1870. The tilt-frame design is actually based upon a patent granted to Goodell and Robb on February 12, 1878 which does not appear on the parer (Goodell and Robb, 1878).

References

Goodell, D. H. and Robb, W., inventors; 1878 Feb. 12. Improvement in Apple Parers. US200279.


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