Patent · US Expired

Food cutting apparatus

US4993157A · kind A · utility

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8Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 7, 1990
Grant dateFeb 19, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 7, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/7587
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for effecting precise slicing and division of various sheet-like food members, such as cake, pizza and the like. The apparatus includes a housing including a manually manipulatable drive gear positioned medially thereof, with the drive gear rotatable by use of a rotatable incrementally divided handle projecting orthogonally and upwardly relative to the housing, with a plurality of reciprocatable gear racks directed exteriorly of the housing through each opposed side thereof in cooperation with the gear to adjust spacing of cutting wheels, each mounted at a remote terminal end of each gear rack.

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