Patent ID: 9545112
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: A21C,B26D

Claim:
1. A cake slicer adapted to cut a cake with a knife comprising, in combination: a control platform; a main housing unit formed with a wall extending perpendicular from the control platform, the wall circumferentially surrounding a central opening adapted to receive the cake to be cut, and defining cutting slots adapted to receive the knife, wherein the main housing unit has handles formed as unitary projections of the main housing unit and extending perpendicularly from the wall, and the main housing unit can be moved to a different cutting position with respect to the cake without movement of the cake to be cut; and a centering platform adapted to receive the cake to be cut, formed separately from the main housing unit; wherein one of the control platform and the main housing unit is provided with alignment tabs, and the other of the control platform and the main housing unit defines a series of alignment slots each adapted to receive a corresponding alignment tab so as to hold the main housing unit in one of a plurality of cutting positions with respect to the control platform and to the cake to be cut; wherein the control platform has a vertical projection with an inside closer to a center of the control platform and an outside remote from the center of the control platform, the wall of the main housing unit has an inner surface and an outer surface, and when the main housing unit is in one of the plurality of cutting positions with respect to the control platform, the inner surface of the wall is adjacent the outside of the vertical projection such that the vertical projection is within the central opening defined by the main housing unit.