Patent ID: 7975947

Claim:
A food chopper with an at least two-part housing with an upper housing section and a lower housing section with a receiving chamber in which the goods to be cut can be positioned, and with at least one knife element that can move axially within the housing and that can be moved with at least one knife edge into the receiving chamber; wherein the housing is closed at its lower housing section with the receiving chamber; wherein the knife element is connected to an inertia mass element; wherein the upper housing section is provided with flights of thread that are chamfered in the cutting direction and exhibit a stop edge in the return direction, and wherein at least one of (1) the knife element and (2) the inertia mass element are provided with at least one of (a) a protruding guide spring element and (b) a guide edge for engaging in the flights of thread at least across a portion of their outer circumference.