Peel-Sieve Potato Masher: Press Through the Net, Leave the Peel

Peeling boiled potatoes before mashing is slow and burns the fingers. Edmund Brown of Burlington, Vermont, received US 78,050, dated 19 May 1868, for a vegetable masher: an inclined net of horizontal bars and upright wires held between two posts, and a smooth presser that swings down and slides on it, "so arranged that the mashed body or pulp of the potato ... will be forced through the meshes or perforations of the frame, while the peels will not pass through the same, but will fall into a dish or pan placed for their reception." This rung works out the net's openings, then prints the net and presser, builds the stand, and mashes potatoes boiled in their skins.