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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Plyerman on August 07, 2016, 07:13:16 AM

Title: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Plyerman on August 07, 2016, 07:13:16 AM: ...more likely a new-fangled food preparation device that never caught on. It has a steel handle, with a "head" piece that can pivot. One side has a block of spikes that I assume are for chipping ice or perhaps tenderizing meat? The other side has a semi-circular knife blade, maybe for chopping salad in a bowl? Who knows. The only markings are PAT PEND.

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Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: turnnut on August 07, 2016, 09:15:43 AM: it surely looks like a meat tenderizer, and the blade might be to chop off any fat.

interesting kitchen tool ?

Pat must have been a vary busy man or woman, as I have a few item with that same name; Pat Pend.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Bill Houghton on August 07, 2016, 10:32:44 AM: That's pretty gizmotic. The multitool approach to kitchen implements.

I suspect the bed of spikes on the one side is a meat tenderizer.

Looks like an ergonomic nightmare, though, and it would be a bear to clean.

But it fails as a multitool: no nutcracker.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Lewill2 on August 07, 2016, 11:45:52 AM: Nice find Plyerman, that would of followed me home too.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Yadda on August 07, 2016, 01:21:31 PM: Maybe one more option and you would have a real OSHA wheel-o-death. You already have a pulverizer and a slicer/chopper. All you need is a spike and a bottle opener. :grin:
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: mvwcnews on August 08, 2016, 09:46:26 PM: Perhaps being able to change the angle of the handle to the slicer was an early effort to ward off carpal tunnel syndrome? Just be glad the props people for a slasher film have not come across one, or the price could have been astronomical.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Yadda on August 09, 2016, 09:28:38 PM: One would think the inventor/manufacturer of anything this gangly would have put their name on it.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Plyerman on August 10, 2016, 08:21:51 PM: Quote from: Yadda on August 09, 2016, 09:28:38 PM
One would think the inventor/manufacturer of anything this gangly would have put their name on it.

Yes I agree, but unfortunately they did not. I've been scouring the patent record, looking for some trace of this thing, but so far no luck.
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Yadda on August 10, 2016, 08:25:24 PM: Maybe English? Victorian era?
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: Plyerman on August 12, 2016, 02:31:28 PM: Quote from: Yadda on August 10, 2016, 08:25:24 PM
Maybe English? Victorian era?

Ahh! Could be....

I've got this world wide patent search site that Stan told me about, but I haven't mastered it yet. Maybe I could find something there? Might be a good project for this weekend.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP
Title: Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
Post by: kwoswalt99 on August 12, 2016, 04:31:11 PM: It is a kitchen tool. Combination meat tenderizer and mincer. The mincers usually have t-handles and sometimes multiple blades.