Patent ID: 9694506
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B26D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A food-product slicer for slicing a food-product, comprising: a blade set designed and configured for cutting a food-product into multiple slices, wherein said blade set includes a plurality of space-apart blades having spaces therebetween, and said blade set has an upper side and a lower side spaced from said upper side; a food-product pusher designed, configured, and located to resistingly engage the food-product when the food-product is engaged with said blade set during cutting operations; a food-product cradle that includes a plurality of fingers parallel to said plurality of spaced apart blades of said blade set and spaced apart so that said plurality of fingers will interdigitate with said plurality of spaced-apart blades within said spaces between said spaced apart blades during the cutting operations, said plurality of fingers having corresponding respective upper surfaces designed, configured, and located to support the food-product from beneath the food-product prior to the cutting operations and to hold the food-product in spaced relation to said food-product pusher; a base fixedly supporting said blade set during the cutting operations; and a lever arm to which each of said food-product pusher and said food-product cradle are fixedly coupled, said lever arm pivotably coupled to said base, wherein said lever arm has: wherein, as the user moves said lever arm from said open position to said closed position, said plurality of fingers of said food-product cradle pass through said blade set in said spaces of said blade set so that said blade set disengages the food-product from said upper surfaces of said plurality of fingers and supports the food-product as said food-product pusher subsequently makes contact with the food-product opposite said blade set.