Food comminuting device
AssigneeSalter Housewares Limited
InventorPeter Ackeret
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Abstract
A food comminuting device comprises a bowl type receptacle in combination with a comminuting appliance designed to engage and fit over the open mouth of the bowl. The comminuting appliance has a frame which carries a plurality of comminuting units having different comminuting characteristics which can selectively be moved and brought into use in a predetermined operative working position such that the fragments of comminuted food fall freely into the bowl. The frame also provides a protective guard shielding at least the comminuting unit or units not in use thereby reducing risk of accidental contact of the latter with the user of the device, and guide means for guiding food bodies manually reciprocated in engagement with a selected comminuting unit in the operative working position.
Claims31
A device for use in comminuting solid food bodies by rasping, grating or cutting carried out by manually moving each food body under pressure over a stationary comminuting unit, said device comprising:
- a. a comminuted food material collector bowl;
- b. a lid structure which detachably fits upon and covers said bowl;
- c. a channel extending across said lid structure defining a food body guideway bounded by lateral guide surfaces and a base surface integral with said lid structure;
- d. a slot aperture in the base surface of said channel guideway intermediate its ends;
- e. at least three different comminuting units of substantially planar configuration movably mounted and housed in said lid structure, said different comminuting units having comminuting elements of different comminuting characteristics and each having apertures for passage therethrough of comminuted food material fragments;
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- f. means for selectively presetting each comminuting unit by displacement within said lid structure from a protectively shielded out-of-use position to an exposed operative working position in registry with said slot aperture in the channel guideway ready for use.
An appliance for comminuting solid food bodies by rasping, grating or slicing carried out by manually reciprocating each food body along a guideway so as to pass under pressure over a stationary comminuting unit so that the comminuted food material drops through apertures therein, said device comprising:
- a. a frame,
- b. a food guideway provided in a top surface of said frame,
- c. a working aperture in said top surface in alignment with said guideway, and
- d. a plurality of comminuting units having different comminuting elements of different comminuting characteristics,
- e. said comminuting units being provided by a comminuting member rotatably mounted on said frame whereby the comminuting member can be turned into selected angular positions relative to the frame to bring selectively each comminuting unit into an uppermost operative position disposed in the path of the food bodies reciprocated along said guideway and in registry with said working aperture,
- f. the appliance also including releasable locking means operative to hold and maintain the comminuting member in each said selected angular position,
- g. the comminuting member consists of a drum mounted upon the frame by swivel bearings at opposite ends and having a hollow shell structure of arch-like part-polygonal across-sectional configuration providing substantially flat facets extending in planes disposed in angular relationship to one another,
- h. said facets carrying different comminuting elements and constituting said comminuting units,
- i. each facet being adapted to lie in the uppermost operative position, across the working aperture, in substantially flush relationship with said guideway which extends either side of said working aperture.
A combination comprising:
- a. a food comminuting unit having a frame structure including a substantially flat food comminuting surface on one side and a shaped outlet means on the other side thereof;
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- b. a receptacle including a shaped opening having structural characteristics to detachably fit the shaped outlet means of the food comminuting unit;
- c. said frame structure being effective to cover said receptacle when the shaped receptacle opening is fitted to the shaped outlet means;
- d. said food comminuting surface including a working aperture;
- e. said food comminuting unit including at least two comminuting elements movably mounted on the frame structure between an operative working position and a stored position;
- f. each said comminuting element being registered with the working aperture in the exposed operative working position and being covered by the frame structure in the protectively shielded stored position;
- g. each said comminuting element having a substantially planar configuration with openings therethrough to effect passage of comminuted food material when the combination is in operation;
- h. said comminuting unit further including means disposed on said frame structure for moving the comminuting elements between the working position and a stored position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.