Patent ID: 8191881

Claim:
A portable cutting table for supporting foodstuff during cutting operations, said portable cutting table comprising: a collapsible frame adapted to be transported between remote locations; a cutting surface connected to a top-most region of said frame, said cutting surface remaining centrally conjoined to said frame while said frame is biased between folded and unfolded positions; means for selectively biasing said frame between the folded and unfolded positions while said cutting surface remains statically engaged with said top-most surface; and a plurality of knife-holding implements fixedly mated to said frame biasing means, said knife-holding implements being articulated about a fulcrum axis registered orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of said cutting surface such that said knife-holding implements are displaced between stored and exposed positions as said frame is biased between the folded and unfolded positions respectively; wherein said cutting surface comprises a planar top-most surface registered along a horizontal plane; and a plurality of beveled edges obliquely offset from the horizontal plane and monolithically formed with an outer perimeter of said cutting surface, said beveled edges sloping downwardly and away from said outer perimeter and terminating at an inner perimeter of said top-most region of said frame for effectively directing fluid and debris away from said top-most surface during cutting operations; wherein said frame comprises: a plurality of rectilinear support legs each having top ends situated subjacent to a horizontally oriented bottom wall of said cutting surface, each of said top ends being juxtaposed at a corresponding corner of said cutting surface; wherein said frame biasing means comprises a plurality of rectilinear anchor rails statically and fixedly connected to said bottom wall of said cutting surface respectively; a plurality of primary fastening members laterally traversing through said anchor rails and being coupled to a corresponding one of said top ends of said support legs; wherein a first pair of said support legs are simultaneously and synchronously pivoted about a first axis longitudinally passing through a first one of said anchor rails; wherein a second pair of said support legs are simultaneously and synchronously pivotal about a second axis longitudinally passing through a second one of said anchor rails; wherein each of said first and second axes are oriented parallel to said fulcrum axis.