1930’s
Patents included: harvesting equipment, bean cutting machinery, mechanical movement of lifting and removing appendages from certain crops, mechanical movement involved in placement of building forms to produce structures, fruit/vegetable cutter, vegetable shredder/slicer, and various food processing inventions.
1930-1936
The Model 30 Cutter is developed to cut green beans into shorter pieces. This machine is still in production today.
The Model 6 Dicer is introduced. It is developed to dice vegetables and fruits for canning, but later is obsoleted by more advanced dicers.
The first international sales
1937
The Model M Slicer is sold for slicing mushrooms, beets, strawberries, peaches, etc. It is the first size reduction machine to incorporate centrifugal force in its operation, but is later obsoleted by higher capacity slicers.
Patent on slicing machinery propelling product via centrifugal force.
1939
The Model B Dicer is sold for dicing vegetables and revolutionizes the canned soup industry. It is later replaced by more sophisticated dicers.