Patent ID: 9185970
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: A47B,A47J

Abstract:
1. A portable cutting table for supporting foodstuff during cutting operations, said portable cutting table comprising: a frame capable of being transported between remote locations, said frame being biased between folded and unfolded positions respectively; a cutting surface support platform attached to a top of said frame; a cutting surface connected to said cutting surface support platform; means for selectively biasing said frame between the folded and unfolded positions while said cutting surface remains statically engaged with said cutting surface support platform; and a plurality of knife-holding implements directly and fixedly mated to said frame in such a manner that said knife-holding implements are simultaneously articulated about a fulcrum axis and thereby automatically displaced between stored and exposed positions as said frame is biased between the folded and unfolded positions, respectively; wherein said frame comprises: a plurality of rectilinear support arms attached to said cutting surface support platform and registered parallel to said cutting surface when said frame is at the folded and unfolded positions; a plurality of rectilinear support legs each having top ends situated subjacent to said cutting surface support platform, said top ends being coupled to corresponding ones of said support arms and located at corresponding corners of said cutting surface support platform, respectively; a plurality of spaced side walls located subjacent to said cutting surface and attached to oppositely facing ones of said support arms and said support legs, respectively; and a plurality of anchor brackets attached to laterally opposing faces of said side walls, respectively.