Patent ID: 6892630

Claim:
A device for molding spheroidal food products comprising: a plurality of cutting tool elements; a central opening formed between frontal sections of blades defined on front-ends of the plurality of cutting tool elements; a cylindrical food product continuously passing downwardly through the central opening; the blades of the plurality of cutting tool elements slide relative to adjacent cutting tool elements of the plurality of cut tool elements to open and close the central opening; and an inner side sliding surface and an outer side sliding surface configured on each of the cutting tool elements; wherein a transverse slide groove and a convex rail are respectively configured on the innerside sliding surface, and another transverse slide groove and another convex rail are respectively configured on the outer side sliding surface, and the convex rails of each of the adjacent cutting tool elements respectively slide along the slide grooves; an edge formed from angle of intersection of the inner side sliding surface and the outer side sliding surface defines the blade; such that, when the plurality of cutting tool elements moves the central opening from an open position toward a closed position the plurality of convex rails exert pressure and hold firm a circumferential surface of the cylindrical food product, thereby enabling the surface of the cylindrical food product to gradually form a plurality of deep depressions and protrusions along a central region of the cylindrical food product; thus upon closing of the central opening, the cylindrical food product is thereupon severed by the converged plurality of blades, and molded into a spheroidal food product therefrom.