Patent ID: 7107890

Claim:
A safety manual vegetable cutter comprising a frame equipped with at least one cutting blade fitted transversely facing a slot through which sliced vegetables pass two side rails to provide guidance in a to-and-fro translational motion for a guide chamber equipped with a loading volume in the guide chamber for vegetables to be sliced and acting in conjunction with a press-down cap designed to be gripped by a user to move the guide chamber to and fro along the guide rails while exerting a constant pressure on the vegetables contained in the loading volume so as to press them against the at least one cutting blade fitted to the frame and enable them to be sliced along a cutting plane by the at least one cutting blade, and means for adjusting the depth of cut including a ramp fitted so as to be capable of translational motion oblique to the cutting plane and facing the at least one cutting blade at a first end to form a slot through which the sliced vegetables pass, the ramp comprising two side flanges each having an inclined hole oblique to the cutting plane for adjustably engaging a projection from a guide rail, and an opening for receiving a locking screw, and the guide rails each having an inclined hole oblique to the cutting plane for receiving the locking screw.