Patent ID: 6237474
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: A47J,B30B

Abstract:
A cleaning plate for a manually operated, lever-type garlic press of the type having pivotally connected first and second lever arms, the first lever arm defining a press chamber having a floor portion defining a plurality of apertures therethrough, and the first lever arm having a front facial portion, the second arm having an anvil member that moves in the press chamber when the first and second lever arms are pivotally articulated, such that a garlic clove in the press chamber is squeezable between the anvil and the floor portion so that fluid is extrudable from the clove through the apertures, the cleaning plate comprising:generally opposed inner and outer faces, the inner face being configured to engage the floor portion and having a plurality of upstanding pins defined thereon and ordered for individual association with respective ones of the apertures when the inner face engages the floor portion, whereby debris in the apertures is thereby displaced; andthe outer face configured for engaging the front facial portion.