Patent ID: 8096218
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: A47J,B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A device for cutting food comprising: a cutting blade including a cutting edge; a slide operable to receive a food product that is slid across the slide in a first sliding direction so as to cut the food product while the food product is sliding in the first sliding direction using the cutting edge; a switch including a switch-over lever operable by at least one of the food product and a holder configured to receive the food product to switch the device from a neutral position in which the cutting edge is substantially disposed in a plane of the slide and at least one of covered and recessed, to a cutting position in which the cutting edge is raised with respect to a surface of the slide and neither covered nor recessed; and a spring coupled to the switch, the spring configured to release the switch and automatically switch the cutting blade back to the neutral position as the food product is slid in the first sliding direction.