Patent ID: 6286407
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: A23N,B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A method, utilizing an aperture knife, for removing an extraneous portion from a produce item, said aperture knife including a base section, a convex blade arising a vertical distance from said base section, said convex blade including a pair of convergent arms which converge to form a blade apex extending said vertical distance from said base section, which said arms further serve as two produce guide arms that converge upwardly and inwardly toward said blade apex, said two produce guide arms for centering a center of said produce item with respect to said blade apex, said center of said produce item including at least a part of said extraneous portion, said convex blade and an edge in operative combination further defining a vertical aperture formed above said base section, said method comprising:positioning the produce item on said base section section, with at least said part of said extraneous portion in contact with said base section section;urging said produce item along said base section towards said apex of said convex blade;receiving said produce item, including at least a part of said extraneous portion, into said produce guide arms;responsive to continued urging towards said convex blade, centering, with said produce guide arms, said produce item with respect to said blade apex;forming a concave cut with said convex blade in said produce item, thereby severing said extraneous portion from said produce item; andseparating, through said aperture, said extraneous portion from said produce item.