Slicing device
AssigneeFasline Food Equipment Co.
InventorsSamuel L. Gerson, Frank W. Jones
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Abstract
Two racks of parallel thin sharp blades are intermeshed in a crossed disposition within the open interior of a rectangular base frame. A pusher having a concave pocket and spaced ribs for entering between the crossed blades is reciprocally mounted upon the sides of the base frame. An object to be sliced is forced by the pusher through the junctions of the crossed blades. An auxiliary cutting blade may be mounted below the junctions of the blades to cut the slices pushed through the blades into two portions.
Claims14
A slicing device comprising a pair of racks of substantially parallel sharp thin blades having a substantially uniform spacing for obtaining slices of predetermined thickness, the spacings in each rack being substantially twice the thickness of the ultimate slices obtained from the slicer, a base frame, the pair of racks being mounted on the base frame in an intermeshed configuration in which the racks cross each other at junctions at intermediate portions, the intermeshed spacing of the blades in the racks being substantially uniform and substantially half the spacing in each individual rack of blades in the extremities of the racks away from the crossed junctions, a pusher, movable means mounting the pusher on the base frame to provide movement of the pusher towards and away from the crossed racks of blades along an axis of movement, and the axis of movement going through the crossed junctions of the blades whereby an object is first contacted with the more widely spaced extremities of the blades disposed outside of the cross junctions and ultimately pushed through the cross junctions of the blades whereby initial cutting is facilitated by the contact with more widely spaced blades to facilitate initial cutting and the object is gradually introduced into the narrower spacing at the junctions of the blades to complete their slicing.
A slicing device comprising a base frame having sides surrounding a substantially open interior space, a row of upper and lower blade anchors disposed on opposite sides of the base frame, rows of substantially parallel and equally spaced thin sharp blades connected between an upper row of blade anchors on one side of the base frame and a lower row of blade anchors on the other side of the base frame whereby the blades are disposed diagonally across the interior space and cross each other within the interior space, the blades in opposite rows alternately intermeshing with each other to have more widely spaced extremities and more narrowly spaced junctions, tensioning means reacting between the blade anchors and the base frame for pulling the blades taut, a pusher for urging objects to be sliced through the crossed array of blades, the pusher being slotted to have a plurality of thin ribs for entering between the blades, and movable connecting means mounting the pusher on the base frame whereby it may be moved from a position remote from the blades to a position in which ribs enter between the blades to push an object to be sliced first through the more widely spaced extremities and then through the more narrowly spaced junctions of the blades whereby initial cutting and final slicing of the objects are facilitated.
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