| US Patent: 236,178 
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| Apple Slicer | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Albert J. Rice (exact or similar names) - Sodus, Wayne County, NY |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | A. J. Rice - Sodus, Wayne County, NY |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Sep. 13, 1880 |  
| Granted: | Jan. 04, 1881 |  
 
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| Description: |  | Abstract:
My improved machine possesses many advantages over any apple-slicer heretofore constructed, as by its means I am enabled to make from cored apples annular slices of uniform thickness with great rapidity, without loss from broken slices, and with a minimum amount of labor. Owing to the peculiar construction of the machine, the knives are always under strain, and can therefore be used when worn very thin.
Claim:
In an apple-slicer, the combination, with a suitable supporting-frame, of the spirally arranged knives B B B B, removably attached to the frame at each end and offset on one side of the finger-shaft, and the rotating fingers G. |  |