Apparatus for peeling vegetables

Claim 2

A vegetable peeler comprising, a power unit including a drive shaft driven at high speed by a motor, a container member removably mounted on said power unit journalling a driven shaft on its bottom wall and having an upstanding wall surrounding said shaft, a disengageable clutch means to interengage said shafts in interdriving relationship, a horizontally disposed concave scraper disk mounted on the upper end of said driven shaft with the concavity disposed upwardly and having holes through the disk defining scraping edges on the trailing walls of the holes, and tumbler means above said disk and circularly inclined upwardly in the direction of disk rotation along and inwardly spaced from a portion of said upstanding wall to tumble vegetables of various sizes located on scraper disk and contacting said tumbler means, said tumbler means comprising a curved member defining a helical ledge bordering the scraper disk and overhanging the space below it into which peelings may be discarded by the peeling disk.

Claim 3

A vegetable peeler comprising, a liquidizer power unit including a drive shaft driven by a multi-speed controlled universal motor, a container removably mounted non-rotatively on said power unit journalling a vertical driven shaft on its bottom wall and having an upstanding wall surrounding said shaft provided with vertically disposed bosses peripherally spaced in said portion of the upstanding wall and having vertically opening core holes therein, an axially desengageable clutch means to interengage said shafts in interdriving relationship, a horizontally disposed concave scraper disk on the upper end of said driven shaft with the concavity disposed upwardly with the edges curving upwardly towards the upstanding wall and having holes through the disk defining sharp scraping edges on the trailing walls of the holes for peeling a vegetable contacting the upper surface of the disk and centrifugating the peelings from the bottom side of the disk against said upstanding wall, tumbler means circularly inclined upwardly along and inwardly spaced from a portion of said upstanding wall in the direction of rotation of the disk with the lower end of said tumbler means located near the level of the scraper disk to tumble vegetables on the scraper disk contacting said tumbler means which comprises a curved rod bordering the scraper disk and overhanging the space below it into which peelings may be discarded by the scraper disk and having downwardly extending legs received in said core holes.

Claim 4

A vegetable peeler comprising, a liquidizer power unit including a drive shaft driven by a multi-speed controlled universal motor, a container removably mounted non-rotatively on said power unit journalling a vertical driven shaft on its bottom wall and having an upstanding wall surrounding said shaft provided with vertically disposed bosses peripherally spaced in said portion of the upstanding wall and having vertically opening core holes therein, an axially desengageable clutch means to interengage said shafts in interdriving relationship, a horizontally disposed concave scraper disk on the upper end of said driven shaft with the concavity disposed upwardly with the edges curving upwardly towards the upstanding wall and having holes through the disk defining sharp scraping edges on the trailing walls of the holes for peeling a vegetable contacting the upper surface of the disk and centrifugating the peelings from the bottom side of the disk against said upstanding wall, tumbler means circularly inclined upwardly along and inwardly spaced from a portion of said upstanding wall in the direction of rotation of the disk with the lower end of said tumbler means located near the level of the scraper disk to tumble vegetables on the scraper disk contacting said tumbler means which comprises a curved rod bordering the scraper disk and overhanging the space below it into which peelings may be discarded by the scraper disk and having downwardly extending legs received in said core holes.

Claim 5

A vegetable peeler comprising, a power unit including a drive shaft driven at variable speed by a motor, a container member journalling a driven shaft on its bottom wall, a disengageable clutch means to interengage said shafts in interdriving relationship, a plurality of lugs on said power unit around said drive shaft non-rotatively receiving the container member in supported relation on said power unit with said shafts in coaxial relation, readily releasable clamp means carried by said container member to engage said power unit in their operative position to hold said container member in place against radial forces exerted on said container during peeling operations and movable from a position clearing said lugs to a position engaging said lugs under clamping pressure, scraper means mounted on the upper end of said driven shaft within said container for peeling a vegetable therein, tumbler means above said scraper means intermittently engaged by said vegetable for tumbling said vegetable as it is moved by said scraper means around in said container.

Claim 6

A vegetable peeler comprising, a power unit including a drive shaft driven at variable speed by a motor, a container member journalling a driven shaft on its bottom wall, a disengageable clutch means to interengage said shafts in interdriving relationship, a plurality of lugs on said power unit around said drive shaft non-rotatively receiving the container member in supported relation on said power unit with said shafts in coaxial relation, readily releasable clamp means carried by said container member to engage said power unit in their operative position to hold said container member in place against radial forces exerted on said container during peeling operations and movable from a position clearing said lugs to a position engaging said lugs under clamping pressure, scraper means mounted on the upper end of said driven shaft within said container for peeling a vegetable therein, tumbler means above said scraper means intermittently engaged by said vegetable for tumbling said vegetable as it is moved by said scraper means around in said container.

Claim 7

The vegetable peeler defined in claim 1 including a removable cover member on said container member, one of said members having a transparent portion above the level of said scraper disk.

Claim 8

The vegetable peeler defined in claim 3 in which said tumbler means comprises a radially inwardly offset portion of said wall providing a shelf whose edge defines an inclined vegetable engaging element.

Claim 9

The vegetable peeler defined in claim 3 in which the scraper disk comprises a circular concave disk of sheet metal of uniform thickness having sharp square corners around the upper margins of holes therethrough.

Claim 10

The vegetable peeler defined in claim 3 in which said tumbler means comprises a curved member bordering the Scraper disk to simultaneously lift and retard the side of the vegetable proximate to the wall at least once every revolution of the vegetable around a circular path.