Patent ID: 6244150
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: B26B,B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A device for slicing a food product, said device comprisinga base for supporting a block of said food product;a blade holder having an upright position at one end of said base, said blade holder having opposed parallel grooves; anda unitary blade of uniform thickness, said blade comprisinga single flat upper major portion having parallel lateral edges slidingly retained in said grooves so that the blade can move through a cutting stroke between said upper and lower positions,a lower minor portion substantially parallel to said upper major portion, said lower minor portion being offset from said upper major portion in a direction toward a portion of the base upon which the block of food product is intended to rest, and terminating at a cutting edge, the motion of the cutting edge through the cutting stroke defining a cutting plane and no other part of the blade ever being in said cutting plane, andan intermediate portion extending at an angle between said lower minor portion and said upper major portion, whereby said upper major portion is kept out of contact with said food product, said minor portion cuts the food product, and the intermediate portion deflects cut slices away from the base.