Patent ID: 9186806
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B26B,B26D

Abstract:
1. A handheld food slicer configured to insertably receive an elongated food item in a transverse direction and slice the elongated food item into a plurality of uniform discs, the handheld food slicer comprising: a first handle having a plurality of elongated fingers, each finger having a finger width and being separated from an adjacent finger by a thin blade receiving slot, each thin blade receiving slot having a slot width that is a fraction of the finger width; a second handle movably coupled to the first handle and including at least three blade members, each blade member having a blade width to fit within a respective one of the thin blade receiving slots and having a closed profile defining an aperture to insertably receive the elongated food item; and a spring to bias the first and the second handles toward a fully expanded configuration in which a distal end of the first handle is at least partially spaced apart from a distal end of the second handle; wherein the at least three blade members of the second handle are in spaced alignment with the thin blade receiving slots of the first handle, wherein, when the first and the second handles are biased apart by the spring in the fully expanded configuration, a distal end of the elongated fingers of the first handle overlap with the blade members of the second handle when viewing the handheld food slicer in the transverse direction to collectively define a food receiving passageway for insertably receiving the elongated food item in the transverse direction, and wherein the elongated fingers of the first handle are configured to pass through the food receiving passageway adjacent the blade members to simultaneously slice the elongated food item into the plurality of uniform discs having a width equal to the finger width as the first and the second handles move against the bias of the spring from the fully expanded configuration towards a compressed configuration in which the distal end of each of the first and the second handles is relatively closer to the other.