Historic Hood River
Palmer Fruit Sizer
Notes
I assumed this was another image of one of August Guignard and Fritz Rosiger’s fruit grading/ sizing machines which they marketed under the “Ideal Fruit Grader” label– but zooming in to the manufacturer’s label on the crossbeam show the label “Palmer Fruit Sorter.” Research shows a handful of references to this machine in 1914 and 1915, like this brief mention in The Hood River Glacier. Can anyone shed some light on this machine? Was Palmer an upstart challenger to Ideal? Or a predecessor? Wide advertising of the Ideal Grader starts about 1918, the the Ideal Fruit & Nursery Company appears by 1909.
Who was the “Palmer” behind this machine? I suspect this was the same “Palmer” who marketed other agricultural tools, like this “Palmer Fruit Picking Bucket.”
Tags: agriculture, Fruit Grader, fruit packing, Fruit Sizer, Guignard, packing, packing house, Palmer, Rosiger, Rosiger_Fritz
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HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1910
ALL METAL PICKING
BUCKET INVENTED
An all-metal fruit picking bucket
la the invention of Walter G. Palmar,
of this city, and the Jnew orchard
utensil, working specimens of which
are on exhibit at the office of the
Hood River District Land company,
bids fair to become very popular.
It is a regular metal bucket, with
a metal bottom of two sliding
sections. The bottom slides from
under the fruit in the filled buckets
and it slides into the receptacle with
out jarring and bruising. The bucket
according to Mr. Palmer i especially
adapted to handlnig apples, pears,
peaches and any small fruit or vegetables.
The Palmer Bucket company is the
name is the corporation which has
been formed by Mr. Palmer, J. Calvin
Skinner, and Alfred T. Allen for the
manufacture and Bale of the new
bucket. The company is incorporated
for $25,000 and the othcers are Mr,
Palmer, oreaident : Mr. Skinner, vice
nresident: Mr. Allen, secretary and
treasurer.