French fry cutter for food processors

A French fry cutter tool for use in a food processor of the type having an upright working bowl with tool drive means extending into the bowl for rotating various removable food processing tools in said bowl, a removable cover for closing the bowl when in use, and a feed passage for introducing food material into the bowl, said French fry cutter tool having a hub removably engageable with said drive means to be rotated thereby in a predetermined direction of rotation about an axis with a disc-like member secured to the hub for rotation therewith, said disc-like member having an opening therein extending from a region near said hub to a region near the periphery of said disc-like member, said opening being further defined by an elevated portion on said disc-like member located behind said opening, the novel French fry cutter tool comprising:

• a cutting structure formed by a sharpened continuous strip of blade metal bent to form alternating spaced, flat lower portions and spaced, flat upper portions, interconnected by upright, spaced, parallel blade portions, said continuous blade strip having the general configuration of a square wave with a sharpened leading edge,
• said flat, lower portions of said blade strip having rearwardly extending lower tongues mounted to the underside of said disc-like member near the edge of said opening in said disc-like member, said edge of said disc-like member having integral rearwardly extending tongues to which said lower tongues of said blade strip are attached,
• said flat, upper portions of said blade strip having rearwardly extending upper tongues,
• a flat plate-like blade element having a sharpened leading edge mounted on the elevated portion of said disc-like member overlying said opening in said disc,
• said rearwardly extending upper tongues of said blade strip being mounted to the upper surface of said flat plate-like blade element,
• the sharp leading edge of said plate-like blade element being positioned adjacent to the trailing edges of said upright parallel blade portions,
• said upright, parallel blade portions forming a plurality of spaced parallel blades positioned in said opening and spaced radially with respect to said axis of rotation, and
• said blades in cooperation with the sharp leading edges of said flat upper portions and the sharpened leading edge of said flat plate-like blade element producing rectangularly shaped French fry cuts from food items fed onto the rotating tool.

A French fry cutter tool for use in a food processor having a rotatable disc-like member with an opening therein, said disc-like member being rotatable in a predetermined direction in the food processor and having a region behind said opening which is elevated above the level of said disc-like member, and a cutting structure associated with said opening comprising:

• a continuous blade strip sharpened on its leading edge and being bent into a rectangular zig-zag configuration forming spaced, aligned horizontal lower portions, spaced, aligned, horizontal upper portions and spaced, parallel upright portions,
• said horizontal lower portions of said blade strip being secured to said disc-like member in front of said opening,
• said horizontal upper portions of said blade strip being supported by the elevated region of said disc-like member behind said opening, and
• horizontal cutting means elevated above the level of said disc-like member at approximately the same level as said horizontal upper portions, and
• said horizontal cutting means being located near said horizontal upper portions of said blade strip for horizontally cutting food material in locations between said horizontal upper portions.