Food-Product Slicers Having A Double-Beveled Blade Arrangement, And Features Usable Therewith
AssigneeEdlund Company, LLC
InventorRyan S. Whitney
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Abstract
A food-product slicer having a blade set designed and configured to be skewed and tilted, i.e., double-beveled, relative to a thrust axis of the slicer along which cutting action occurs during a slicing operation. In some embodiments, the blade sets of the present disclosure can be integrated into a blade cartridge that is readily engageable and disengageable with the slicer. In certain configurations, a double-beveling of blade set can reduce binding of food-product slices within the blade set and/or create desirable discharging of food-product slices from the corresponding food-product slicer.
Claims20
A food-product slicer for slicing a food product, comprising:
- a base;
- a blade set supported by said base, said blade set designed and configured for slicing the food-product into a plurality of slices, and
- a product pusher supported by said base, said product pusher designed and configured to resistingly engage the food-product during a slicing operation when one, the other, or both of said product pusher and said blade set are moved in a manner that causes said blade set to slice the food product into the plurality of slicers;
- wherein:
- said blade set has a stacking direction and comprises a plurality of blades spaced along said stacking direction, each of said plurality of blades having:
- a cutting edge;
- a length;
- a width;
- a thickness;
- a central plane extending along said width and said length and being parallel to said thrust axis;
- and
- a cutting-edge plane extending along said cutting edge and being perpendicular to said central plane;
- and
- at least some of said cutting-edge planes are spaced from one another.
A blade cartridge designed and configured to be removable engaged with a food-product slicer having a thrust axis along which slicing of a food-product occurs by the blade cartridge when the blade cartridge is installed into the food-product slicer, the blade cartridge comprising:
- a cutting axis designed and configured to be parallel to the thrust axis of the food-product slicer when the blade cartridge is installed in the food-product slicer;
- a frame;
- a blade set held in tension by said frame, wherein:
- said blade set has a stacking direction and comprises a plurality of blades spaced along said stacking direction, each of said plurality of blades having:
- a cutting edge;
- a length;
- a width;
- a thickness;
- a central plane extending along said width and said length and being parallel to said thrust axis;
- and
- a cutting-edge plane extending along said cutting edge and being perpendicular to said central plane;
- and
- at least some of said cutting-edge planes are spaced from one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.