Patent ID: 7444915
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An assembly for a slicer, the slicer having a circular blade, a drive motor for drivingly rotating the circular blade, a blade shaft mounted to the circular blade and supported for rotation of the circular blade about a blade rotation axis that extends through the blade shaft, and a drive engagement means on the circular blade extending angular about the blade rotation axis at a radial spacing from the blade rotation axis, the assembly comprising: a.) an assembly housing having an opening for receiving the blade shaft of the circular blade inserted thereinto, whereby the blade shaft of the circular blade is free to rotate while received in the opening of the assembly housing; b.) a transmission support for supporting a transmission that is coupled to the drive motor and that has a rotating transmission transfer portion in engagement with the drive engagement means on the circular blade such that the transmission transfer portion rotates in response to an output to the transmission by the drive motor to effect rotation of the circular blade, the transmission support being operable to support the rotating transmission transfer portion of the transmission for rotation about a transfer rotation axis that is radially spaced from the blade rotation axis of the blade shaft of the circular blade that has been inserted into the opening of the assembly housing; and c.) an interconnecting structure connecting the assembly housing and the transmission support to one another in a fixed relationship in which, in an assembled condition of the assembly mounted on the slicer and the assembly housing is disposed for receiving a blade shaft of a circular blade, the transmission support is maintained at a position for supporting the transmission transfer portion of the transmission that is in engagement with the drive engagement means on the circular blade such that the transmission transfer portion effects rotation of the circular blade, the assembly housing, the transmission support, and the interconnecting structure being connected to one another to thereby form a single unit to be disposed between a pair of spaced apart walls of the slicer in the assembled condition and being removable as a single unit from its assembled condition within the slicer.