Patent WO-2009100490-A1 (WO)
Title: Gf cake slicer
Inventor: GRIGORI GEORGETA
IPC: A21C15/04
Filed: 2009-02-12
Abstract: This invention relates to a cake slicer unit that allows for assembling and disassembling for all the parts it comprises as follows: The main base board - Fig. 1; 2; 3; 4; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 14; 15; 16; 17; Is a flat plastic rectangular board, with lots of holes in it and looks more like a table with rectangular, parallel uneven legs, on which the cake is placed in order to be cut in layers. Vertical walls: Fig. 14; 15; 16; 17; 18;- that slide into the main base-board hold the cake fixed and secure between them. They act as barrier preventing the cake to slide outside the main base board boundaries. Especially when the racks are also attached to them then the cake is all surrounded and kept still within the four walls formed out of vertical walls and racks. Head corner connectors - Fig. 8; 9; 10; 11; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; - helps to the stability of the whole unit and allow the ends of the two long round tubes with the wheels like rollers to connect, roll and slide inside the oval opening in it's' walls. The head corner - connectors also allows for the other two fixed long round tubes' end to exit their round holes and to be fixed and screwed by plastic caps on the other side of their walls. T-like shaped, the head corner connectors get connected to the main base-board with the T-head part, filling the space in between the two parallel leg sets with space between them. Long round tubes: Fig. 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; - fixed and rolling; the first ones are fixed, do not roll. They are all provided with small handle connectors (one on each tube), that are the means for connection with the handle connectors that slide on tubes during the cutting process. The long round tubes' end with the wheels like rollers, connects and slide inside the oval openings of the head corner connectors. Bridges: - horizontal - Fig. 16; 17; 18; / - vertical; Fig. 10; 11; 12; 13; 18; Vertical bridges are all identical; horizontal ones are also identical, the only difference being only the size; one is longer the other one shorter. Serves as balance and stability between the two handles on both sides, and helps to hold blades, wire or filament straight stretch and in position all the time allowing for a 100% nice even cut of cake layers. Handles: horizontal / vertical cut: Fig. 10; 11; 12; 13; 18; - the first two are shaped like cupboard with shelves with predetermined space between them to allow blades, the wire and filament catchers to slide in between and to be cached on the other side in the middle of the back wall, by a thick metallic needle that runs through of each hole at the end of each blade, wire or filament catchers. These two handles are extended upright each with two small bolts-like built-in in order to allow the crossover bridge to be connected to each of its ends. The space between shelves has been predetermined so as to provide even cake layers at standard or desired thicknesses. The second set of handles for vertical cut, are longer in size and look rather like a timber fence with missing strips where the blades, the wire and filament catchers slides through the numbered slits in vertical position; and with posts on both sides, (the wings) with holes in the middle that secure the blades, the wire and filament catchers by a long metallic needle that goes through the hole of one wing and the means of cut and ends up to the other wing where is screwed against it; Then the base with wings mentioned above is connected on top to another piece of plastic and on top of it a long oval handle is fixed for handling. These all together are forming the vertical-cut handles. The means of cutting like: blades, wire and filament extends horizontally or vertically between the handles and above the main-base-board surface being the means of execution that does the cut penetrating the cake and dividing it in flat horizontal layers of desired thickness, or in individual pieces (slices) of desired size. For horizontal cut: Fig. 16; 17; the blades, wires, filament are guided by handles that slide on long, round tubes, in transversal-longitudinal, horizontal or back and forward movements alongside the main base-boards' length and between the spaces of each rack from one end to another. The blades are disposed sidewise so it can be swept across a cake layer. For vertical cut: Fig. 10; 11; 12; 13; the blades, wires, filament are adjusted to the desired size by inserting them into the numbered holes in the handle in vertical position and secured. The bar-bridges are also fixed to the handles by the small pin-head pins at the end of each handle. Guided by handles, the means of cut slide vertically on the main base-board cutting the cake between the long pins. The long pins: Fig. 9; 10; 11; are the guardians for the cake holding it still and in place. Blades, wires or filament can be used one of a kind at a time, or mixed as required. The purpose of this cake sheer unit is the preparation of multilayer, multilevel cakes or partitioning smaller, individual separated slices out of a bigger size cake.