Peeler
AssigneeChiaphu Industries Limited
InventorChristopher Robert McNair-Chaplin
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Abstract
A hand holdable peeler for fruit and vegetables comprises a housing that has an electric motor mounted in the housing to rotate a peeler attachment. The peeler attachment has a central body and a number of planar plastic blades. Each blade has serrations along its leading surface to cut into the peel or outer surface of the fruit or vegetables. The trailing edges of the serrations and a planar trailing edge of the blade clear and scrape the outer surface.
Claims12
A hand holdable peeler for fruit and vegetables comprising a housing having a longitudinal axis, an electric drive motor mounted in the housing and a peeling attachment arranged to be driven by the motor, the peeler attachment comprising a generally cylindrical elongate body supported to rotate about the longitudinal axis having a number of outwardly extending generally planar blades distributed around the longitudinal axis with their outer edges extending lengthwise along the body with planes generally parallel to the longitudinal axis, in which the blades have cutting serrations formed in leading surfaces adjacent the outer edges arranged so that in use the serrations cut into outer surfaces of the fruit and vegetables and then outer edges scrape the surfaces.
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