Apparatus for cutting meat
AssigneesGeorges P. Panaritis, Panayotis P. Panaritis
InventorsDimitrios P. Panaritis, Spyros A. Iacovidis
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Abstract
A device for cutting slices of meat into a plurality of meat chunk stacks on skewers. The device comprises a container whose vertical walls are provided with guide slots for a knife blade. The container is arranged to receive a stack of meat slices slightly compressed by a top plate whose bottom face has a plurality of guide grooves for facilitating the initial insertion of the knife edge into the stack. A plurality of openings is provided in the top plate and in the bottom plate for guiding skewers to be inserted through the stack of meat either prior or after the cutting into small chunks of the entire content of the container. The device facilitates preparation of dishes of the type of shish kebab, souvlaki or the like.
Claims7
In a device for guiding a knife to facilitate uniform cutting of a stack including meat slices into a plurality of stacks including meat chunks of generally uniform size, the device comprising a generally rectangular container structure including a bottom and four generally upright walls for receiving said stack;
- a plurality of vertical slots in each of said walls, said slots being equidistantly spaced from each other whereby said slots form a plurality of pairs of slots, each pair of slots being located in a generally vertical plane disposed at a right angle with respect to the walls in which the slots of said pair are disposed, each of said slots extending over a substantial portion of the height of the respective wall;
- whereby the blade of a knife can be inserted to pass through both slots of each of said pairs and to be guided by same along the respective generally vertical plane as it cuts through said stack;
- the improvement comprising a rectangular guide plate whose perimeter generally corresponds to but is slightly less than the plan of the inside of said container;
- said guide plate having a bottom face provided with a plurality of straight, transversely and longitudinally disposed guide grooves equidistantly spaced from each other at a spacing corresponding to the spacing of said slots to render each of said grooves generally coincident with the respective generally vertical plane when said plate is inserted into the container.
Apparatus for commercial preparation of a plurality of dishes of the type including small chunks of meat placed on skewers, said apparatus comprising, in combination;
- a. generally rectangular container means having side wall means and bottom means;
- b. coupling means for releasably securing said side wall means and said bottom means to each other.
- c. compressing plate means having a top face and a bottom face and peripheral edges arranged to be received within said container and to be urged towards the bottom means;
- d. a plurality of vertical slots extending substantially the entire height of each wall of said wall means and arranged at an equidistant spacing from each other;
- e. said bottom face of said plate means being provided with longitudinal and transverse grooves extending the entire length and width thereof and equidistantly spaced from each other, the spacing between said grooves corresponding to that of said vertical slots such that, on placing of said plate means into said container, each of said grooves extends between a respective pair of said slots of mutually opposite walls;
- whereby each of said grooves and the associated pair of slots form guide means for guiding a knife blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.