Patent ID: 7390243
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: B24B,B24D,B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A sharpener to sharpen the cutting edge of a rotating slicer blade to be positioned on a horizontal top surface of a food carriage of a powered food slicer having a vertical thickness control plate and a generally vertical push bar adjacent to the control plate, said sharpener comprising a supporting structure having a horizontal base for resting on the horizontal top surface of the carriage, a first vertical wall perpendicular to said base for being disposed against the thickness control plate, a second generally vertical wall adjacent to said first wall, said second wall having a surface shaped to make non-planar contact with the push bar, a sharpening disk having a non-planar rotatable abrasive sharpening surface mounted above said base and inwardly of said first wall and said second wall, said sharpening surface being positioned to contact the cutting edge on one face of the blade to sharpen the cutting edge while the blade cutting edge is free of any structure against the opposite face of the blade directly opposite said sharpening surface during the sharpening, an abrasive surfaced deburring pad selectively movable into contact with the opposite blade face after the blade cutting edge has been sharpened, and said base and said first and second walls permitting said sharpener to be mounted on the slicer without attachment to the slicer during the sharpening and deburring of the slicer blade.