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US 11,897,157 B1Granted
Garlic mincer
OwnerBruce Feldmaninventor
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Abstract
Devices, apparatus and methods for pressing and cutting garlic cloves in a handheld device. The device allows for positioning loose garlic cloves into a cylinder and rotating a knob to push a plunger down by a rotating screw to push the cloves through a cutting grid, and further slicing the cut pieces with a rotating blade. A quick release tab can be used to disengage the screw and allow the plunger and screw to feely travel so that the knob screw and plunger can be removed and new amounts of garlic cloves can be pressed and cut.
Claims20
A garlic mincing device, comprising:
- a cylinder assembly having an open upper end and a bottom end with a cutting grid, and a chamber therebetween for storing garlic cloves;
- a screw assembly having an upper end and a bottom end;
- a plunger attached to the bottom end of the screw assembly;
- the plunger placed over the stored garlic cloves;
- a rotating blade attached to the bottom end of the screw assembly positioned below the cutting grid;
- and
- a turn knob attached to the upper end of the screw assembly, wherein rotating the knob rotates the screw assembly to push the plunger down and pushes the cloves through a cutting grid into resultant garlic pieces, followed by slicing the resultant garlic pieces into sliced cube pieces with the rotating blade.
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A method of mincing garlic cloves, comprising the steps of:
- providing a cylinder assembly having an open upper end and a bottom end with a cutting grid, and chamber between the upper end and the cutting grid, storing garlic cloves in the chamber;
- providing a screw assembly having an upper end and a bottom end, inside of the cylinder assembly;
- attaching a plunger to the bottom end of the screw assembly, above the stored garlic cloves;
- attaching a rotating blade to the bottom end of the screw assembly positioned below the cutting grid;
- and
- providing a turn knob attached to the upper end of the screw assembly;
- and
- rotating the knob which rotates the screw assembly to push the plunger down to push the cloves through the cutting grid into resultant garlic pieces, which are sliced into sliced cube pieces by the rotating blade.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.