Slicing machine
AssigneeFirma Robert Krups
InventorHorst Lorenz
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Abstract
A slicing machine has a housing on which a blade is rotatable about a horizontal axis. The blade is covered by a cover plate which must be in position in order to allow depression of the push-button which starts the device. In addition, the blade is held to its hub by means of a connecting element that connects screw-fashion to the hub over the blade and which can be removed or tightened by hand. A support plate adjacent the blade can be swung between a down position in which a foodstuff can be slid along it during slicing and an up position out of the way paralllel to the blade. A foot on this support plate can be moved between a projecting position in which it can function as a foot and a flat position recessed in the support plate.
Claims15
A slicing machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a blade rotatable on said housing about a generally horizontal axis;
- drive means in said housing for rotating said blade about said axis;
- means connected to said drive means including a start element displaceable between an on position for operating said drive means and an off position in which said drive means is inoperative;
- a cover plate movable on and relative to said housing independently of said start element between a closed position closely juxtaposed with said housing and covering most of said blade and an open position spaced from said housing and exposing said blade;
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- means including a link engageable with said plate and with said start element for preventing displacement of said start element from said off position into said on position except when said plate is in said closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.