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Offline Plyerman

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Medieval torture device, or..?
« 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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Offline turnnut

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #1 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.
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Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #2 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.
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Offline Lewill2

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2016, 11:45:52 AM »
Nice find Plyerman, that would of followed me home too.
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Offline Yadda

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #4 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:
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Offline mvwcnews

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #5 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.
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Offline Yadda

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #7 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.
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Offline Yadda

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2016, 08:25:24 PM »
Maybe English? Victorian era?
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Offline Plyerman

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #9 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
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Offline kwoswalt99

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Re: Medieval torture device, or..?
« Reply #10 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.
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