Patent ID: 7096771
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: A23L,B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A cutter blade assembly for use in a food cutting apparatus comprising: a frame comprised of knife supports, said frame defining a longitudinal passageway having upstream and downstream ends for passage of food product and carrier medium therethrough; a first plurality of strip knives configured in pairs, each knife of said first plurality of strip knives being generally scalloped in shape and having a series of peak portions interspaced with a series of trough portions, each knife of said first plurality of strip knives removably attached to said frame in parallel spaced relation with an opposing knife along said longitudinal passageway, each pair of said first plurality of strip knives configured to cut a vegetable product into a slab having two correspondingly corrugated sides, said pairs of said first plurality of strip knives being spaced farthest apart at a widest base portion at said upstream end of said longitudinal passageway and spaced progressively closer together in a generally pyramidal configuration until arriving at a narrowest spacing at said downstream end; and a second plurality of strip knives generally perpendicularly positioned against the peak portions of said generally scalloped shaped first plurality of strip knives so as to cut the generally corrugated slabs into generally elongated tubular pieces, said second plurality of strip knives connected to said frame in alternating interspaced pairs perpendicularly engaging an adjacent pair of said first plurality of strip knives at a peak portion of each of said strip knives.