Cutting and display tray for cutting proportional sized pieces of pizza
AssigneeNuova Vita Corporation
InventorGreg T. Getzinger
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Abstract
A food cutting guide comprising a base for supporting and cutting food, said base having first and second planar surfaces, a peripheral edge, and a plurality of cutting grooves formed in at least one of the planar surfaces to facilitate and guide the movement of a food cutting utensil in cutting the food, and at least one centering guide disposed inwardly from said peripheral edge on at least the planar surfaces having said cutting grooves; wherein said at least one centering guide facilitates the placement of the food in the center of the cutting surface; and wherein said plurality of cutting grooves are equally spaced to facilitate cutting equal size slices of food.
Claims5
A pizza cutting guide comprising:
- a circular base for supporting and cutting pizza,
- said base having first and second planar surfaces, at least one circular centering guide, and a plurality of self-centering cutting grooves formed in at least one of the planar surfaces that intersect to subdivide the surface into a plurality of equal sized, equally spaced pie-shaped segments to facilitate, center, and guide the movement of a cutting utensil in cutting the pizza, and
- an elongate handle extending from the base,
- wherein the base and the elongate handle define a peripheral edge,
- wherein said at least one centering guide disposed inwardly from said peripheral edge on the planar surface having said cutting grooves;
- wherein said at least one centering guide facilitates the placement of the pizza in the center of the cutting surface;
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- wherein each of said cutting grooves has terminal ends and a middle portion,
- wherein the middle portion has a uniform width and depth, and has a V-shaped cross section that that opens toward said the planar surface having said cutting grooves;
- wherein flared openings end on said peripheral edge and are widest at the peripheral edge and taper to the width of the middle portions;
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- wherein said plurality of cutting grooves are equally spaced to facilitate cutting equal size slices of pizza;
- wherein one of said cutting grooves extends on and along said elongate handle and one of its flared openings is located at an end of said elongate handle.
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