Patent ID: 7150214

Claim:
A vegetable cutter ( 10 ) having a lower housing part ( 14 ), which has a knife ( 16 ) on its underside and receives a rotatable inner body ( 18 ) having a cutting grid ( 20 ), the inner body ( 18 ) being fillable with the vegetable, and said vegetable cutter having an upper housing part ( 12 ) with a ram ( 26 ), which is disposed on a spindle ( 24 ) and in the operating state plunges into the inner body ( 18 ) and upon rotation of the upper housing part ( 12 ) relative to the lower housing part ( 14 ) executes an axial motion counter to the cutting grid ( 20 ), and said vegetable cutter further having a coupling means ( 28 ) for coupling the upper housing part ( 12 ) to the lower housing part ( 14 ), said couling means ( 28 ) being operable between an operating state to provide engagement with a thread of the spindle ( 24 ) and an open state to allow a free axial displacement of the spindle ( 24 ) and changed to the ram ( 26 ), and the coupling means ( 28 ) being connected to the upper housing part ( 12 ), and that the spindle ( 24 ) being guided for axial displacement relative to the upper housing part ( 12 ) on an axial guide ( 34 ) on the upper housing part ( 12 ) and secured against rotation relative to the upper housing part ( 12 ) on the axial guide ( 34 ).