Patent ID: 7730818

Claim:
A food slicing system for slicing food articles, said system comprising: a base including a front wall, a rear wall and a pair of end walls extending between said front and rear walls, a catch aperture being defined by said front wall, said rear wall and said end walls, said front wall, said rear wall and said end walls extending upwardly from a bottom face; and a cutting assembly being hingedly coupled to said base, said cutting assembly being pivoted towards said base to slice food articles on said base into a plurality of slices said cutting assembly including; a frame being hingedly coupled to said base, said frame including a pair of side bars and a pair of end rails, one of a pair of terminal ends of each of said side bars having one of said end rails coupled thereto, said end rails maintaining positioning of said side bars with respect to each other; a first rod extending through one of said side bars and a portion of said base, wherein said cutting assembly is pivoted around said first rod; a second rod being coupled to and extending through the one of said side bars not containing said first rod; a plurality of blades being slidably mounted to said first and second rods, each of said blades slicing the food articles positioned on said base when said cutting assembly is pivoted towards said base; a plurality of biasing members, each of said first and second rods having a plurality of said biasing members slidably mounted thereon, a mounted end of each of said blades being positioned between an adjacently positioned pair of said biasing members, said biasing members biasing said blades apart to maintain a substantially even spacing between said blades; a plurality of adjustment guides, each of said first and second rods having a pair of said adjustment guides slidably mounted thereon, each of said adjustment guides being positioned adjacent one of said ends rails of said frame, each of said adjustment guides being positioned in one of a pair of channels of an associated one of said side bars, one of said biasing members being positioned between each of said adjustment guides and an adjacently positioned one of said blades, wherein adjustment of said adjustment guides along the associated one of said channels changes a distance between said blades, each of said adjustment guides including a locking arm extending upwardly from the associated one of said channels, said locking arm being pivoted downwardly to abut one of a plurality of locking tabs positioned in the associated one of said channels to secure the associated one of said adjustment guides in the desired position.