On Mar 25, 10:15*pm, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> *wrote *on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:19:56 -0700 (PDT):
>
> > Hand-held veggie peelers, manual or electric, have a high
> > work-content and level of hand-eye coordination. Potatoes
> > present a challenge in that there appears to be a wide
> > size-and-shape variation. However when you take a closer look
> > at them, the variation is not as severe as first appears.
> > The answer? *The path to the solution is found by studying
> > what shape- features apotatohas that can be utilised in the
> > peeling operation.
> > My aim is to de-skill domesticpotato-peeling and make it
> > fast, simple, and repetitive. To achieve this with a very
> > inexpensive and totally newGadget!
>
> I guess it is an interesting problem but only for domestic use.
> Commercial vegetable peelers based on an abrasive drum do exist.
>
> --
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Thank you. This is my first posting thread ever so I am trying to get
used to how it is done.

Abrasion potato peeling I believe was invented way back in the 40's by
a US company in New England. They did very well from sales to the US
Army in particular. I worked with this company for a short while but
never got to see one of their rumblers in action. Of course they were
for bulk potatoes.
The target is the domestic market and helping people to save time.