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Raised Base

Lockey & Howland Raised Table

Goodell applied the raised base concept used on the split-frame design to the regular turntable model. Perhaps raising the turntable up off the working surface helped reduce problems caused by accumulating peels? Notice this parer also sports a V-shaped cutting arm.

Reading Hardware inverted the turntable design in their '77 and '78 parers to prevent parings from clogging the gears. In a June 1897 advertisement Goodell poked fun at such improvements (Kirchhoff, 1897, p. 76).


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References

Kirchhoff, C. [Ed.]. The Iron Age, Vol. 59, New York: David Williams Company, June 24, 1897, p. 76.

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