Handheld food cutter
AssigneeAvoBagel Company Limited
InventorWen Hua Lyu
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Abstract
A food cutter is disclosed. The food cutter has an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis and has an upper portion and a lower portion. The food cutter elongate body has a cylindrical profile with a closed bottom and a top end of the upper portion has a hemispherical profile, wherein the elongate body has a height of 8.8-16.5 cm and a width or diameter of 5.9-12.5 cm. The upper portion includes a housing, a handle extended from the housing, a drive shaft, wherein the housing contains a gear mechanism transferring a driving force from the handle to the drive shaft. The lower portion assumes the profile of a container for accommodating food items to be processed, wherein the lower portion is provided an opening to which the upper portion is removably engaged to close the opening during use.
Claims20
A food cutter comprising:
- an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis, comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein:
- the upper portion includes a housing, a handle extended from the housing, a drive shaft, wherein the housing contains a gear mechanism transferring a driving force from the handle to the drive shaft,
- the lower portion includes a container for accommodating food items to be processed, and a blade assembly including a plurality of rotatable blades arranged within the container, wherein the lower portion is provided an upper rim defining an opening to which the upper portion removably engages to close the opening during use,
- the handle is provided with a pair of arms extending from the upper portion and joining to form a lever at one end thereof, wherein in use the lever of the handle is reciprocatingly movable between a clockwise or upward direction and an anti-clockwise or downward direction,
- the gear mechanism has a first gear wheel, vertically disposed, with respect to the longitudinal axis and defining a first wheel surface and a second wheel surface opposite to the first wheel surface,
- a rim of the first wheel surface is provided with teeth,
- the gear mechanism has a second gear wheel, horizontally disposed, with respect to the longitudinal axis and defining a first, upwardly facing, wheel surface provided with teeth at which the teeth of the first gear wheel engage, and a second, downwardly facing, wheel surface defining an inner rim provided with teeth,
- the drive shaft has an elongate profile and is vertically disposed and defines an upper end engaged with the teeth of the inner rim of the second wheel surface, and
- the drive shaft is provided with a lower end for driving the plurality of rotatable blades disposed in the lower portion, whereby clockwise or upward movement of the lever of the handle effects rotation of the blades in one direction and anti-clockwise or downward movement of the lever of the handle effects rotation of the plurality of blades in a direction opposite the one direction.
A food cutter comprising:
- an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis, comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein:
- the elongate body has a cylindrical profile with a closed bottom and a top end of the upper portion has a hemispherical profile, wherein the elongate body has a height of 8.8-16.5 cm and a width or diameter of 5.9-12.5 cm,
- the upper portion includes a housing, a handle extending from the housing, a drive shaft, wherein the housing contains a gear mechanism transferring a driving force from the handle to the drive shaft,
- the gear mechanism comprises a second gear wheel including a second wheel surface defining an inner rim provided with teeth,
- the drive shaft includes an upper end engaged with the teeth of the inner rim,
- the lower portion comprises a container for accommodating food items to be processed, and a blade assembly including a plurality of rotatable blades arranged within the container, wherein the lower portion is provided an opening to which the upper portion is removably engaged to close the opening during use,
- the handle extends from the elongate body and in use is reciprocatingly movable in a clockwise or upward direction and in an anti-clockwise or downward direction, and
- the drive shaft is provided with a lower end protruding from the upper portion for driving a plurality of rotatable blades disposed in the lower portion of the food cutter, wherein clockwise or upward movement of the handle effects rotation of the plurality of blades in one direction and anti-clockwise or downward movement of the handle effects rotation of the plurality of blades in a direction opposite the one direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.