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Fruit Coring and Halving Machine.

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Patent for a new and improved fruit corer and halver. This design consists "[i]n a fruit cutter, the combination of the pivoted knives having laterally-concaved facing sides and curved inward to the edges at the upper ends, the arms extending from one side of said knives near their lower end, and the vertically-moving guide-plate provided with the longitudinal guide-grooves parallel at their upper and lower portions and curving inward to meet at their centers, into which grooves the ends of said arms enter for the purpose of opening and closing said knives" (lines 22-32).

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[2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Harpst, Edgar S. November 20, 1888.

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Patent for a new and improved fruit corer and halver. This design consists "[i]n a fruit cutter, the combination of the pivoted knives having laterally-concaved facing sides and curved inward to the edges at the upper ends, the arms extending from one side of said knives near their lower end, and the vertically-moving guide-plate provided with the longitudinal guide-grooves parallel at their upper and lower portions and curving inward to meet at their centers, into which grooves the ends of said arms enter for the purpose of opening and closing said knives" (lines 22-32).

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[2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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"SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,154, dated November 20, 1888. Application filed July 17, 1888. Serial No. 280,186 (No model.)"

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  • November 20, 1888

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  • November 20, 1888

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  • July 17, 1888

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Harpst, Edgar S. Fruit Coring and Halving Machine., patent, November 20, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171904/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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