Food mincer

An implement for mincing comprising:

• a pair of pivoted members each having a handle portion and a portion having a plurality of blade-like members with nonreentrant cutting edges;
• each handle portion having a protuberance extending inwardly which is adapted to abut a like protuberance on the other handle to guide relative movement of the handles when pressure is applied to the handles;
• the pivoted members are pivoted about a central pin and for a scissors;
• the blade-like members each have a projection at the end thereof remote from the pivot which forms a notch in the blade-like members;
• the pivoted members are interchangeable;
• the blade-like members on one pivoted member are adapted to interleave with a complementary set of blade-like members on a like portion of the other pivoted member;
• each of said blade-like members having flat surfaces including a flat engaging surface and two flat sides and further including two cutting edges, one formed at each intersection of the flat engaging surface and a flat side, the flat engaging surfaces on the blades and complimentary blades facing each other to engage the article;
• each of the portions having the blade-like members being notched at their ends remote from the pivot for securely grasping and holding an article between the blade-like members to enable the blade-like members to first compress an article by means of coacting with the opposing flat cutting surfaces of the opposing blade-like member and then shear through an article when the blade-like members are pivoted to bring the adjacent opposing cutting edges into shearing proximity with each other.