Safety cutter for cutting vegetables into spirals

Safety cutter for cutting vegetables into spirals comprising:

• a frame provided with two parallel lateral uprights which define two lateral guiding rails and a spiral-cutting knife mounted transversely facing an aperture for the passage of the cut vegetables,
• a casing which has a substantially circular cross-section and which is guided in translation along the guiding rails and which defines an inner space for receiving vegetables to be cut,
• a hollow spiral-cutting pushing member in the form of a cap which fits on the casing and which comprises, at an inner portion thereof, a support plate having first and second faces and forming a base which is fixedly joined, at the first face thereof, to a central rotating shaft which is extended at the opposite end thereof by a crank which extends from the spiral-cutting pushing member through a guiding opening and is provided, at the second face thereof, with a series of spikes which are intended to be embedded in the flesh of the vegetables to be cut in order to retain them as they are pressed against the spiral-cutting knife mounted on the frame in order to allow them to be cut into spirals when the user activates the crank, with a pressure being applied in the direction of the frame, and
• a lock for locking the casing in a position such that the rotating shaft of the spiral-cutting pushing member is located facing the aperture for passage of the cut vegetables,
• wherein the spiral-cutting knife is constituted by a substantially planar removable knife body which can be positioned and snapped onto the frame and which is provided at the central portion thereof with a centering pin which is intended to be embedded in the flesh of a vegetable to be cut and over half of the length thereof with a recess, in the region of which a transverse half-blade is fixed.