Patent ID: 7146896
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A citrus wedge cutting devise, and comprising: a support base having vertical walls around the sides of an open space with a minimum of two and one-half inches between said walls to support manual operating pressure on a flat surface; a housing assembly having a vertical through hole of two and one-half inch minimum diameter for moving citrus fruits through, being mounted on said support base; a cover having an open space of two and one-half inch minimum diameter for moving citrus fruits through, being mounted on a top of said housing assembly; and a drive plate having a press device above said cover and engaged with said housing assembly by gear-rack and guide rod devices to move vertically; whereby, when said drive plate is moved down, said press device contacts the loaded citrus fruit and presses it through said housing assembly to be cut into wedges said housing assembly includes a wedge knife assembled by multi-blades where each blade has a slot to combine one to another to form a wedge knife assembly, said housing assembly further including an extendable knife, said knife having a follower sitting in a curved slot of a cam such that the knife cuts slits in the wedges.