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US 4,399,989 AGranted
Safe grip slicer for bagels, rolls, muffins and the like
OwnerRobert A. Baillieinventor
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Abstract
A fixture having a channel for accepting a user inserted knife blade, a first, floating plate for holding in place one surface of the bagel, roll or muffin to be sliced, and a second, rigid plate for bearing against the opposite surface of the bagel, roll or muffin, and positionally adjustable with respect to the channel for controlling the thickness of the resulting sliced sections.
Claims9
Slicing apparatus comprising:
- a handle;
- a frame providing a cavity for accepting an item to be sliced therein, and having a support rod around which said handle is arranged to pivot when in use;
- a first, stationary plate within said frame for receiving one surface of the item to be sliced;
- a pair of horizontally aligned guide means within said frame, extending in a direction from said handle towards said item to be sliced;
- a second plate apertured to receive said guide means at opposing locations thereon, and to be supported thereby in floating relationship with respect to said frame;
- a rounded surface on said handle, adapted to bear against said second plate under user control, for manually actuating said second plate towards an opposite surface of said item to be sliced, and for actuating said second plate by an extent to cause said second plate to abut against said opposite surface and to hold said one surface of said item in place against said first stationary plate;
- with said rounded surface on said handle being positioned to bear substantially only against a lower portion of said second plate when said handle is pivoted, in giving said second plate a rotational actuation about said rounded edge and on said guide means, in abutting against said opposite surface of said item to be slice;
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- means adaptable to receiving a cutting blade, also manually controlled by said user, for slicing said item at a location intermediate said opposite item surfaces when held in place by said cooperating action of said first and second plates.
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Slicing apparatus comprising:
- a base;
- first and second sections aligned on said base providing a cavity for accepting an item to be sliced therein, and spaced one from anotheer to form a slot to receive a cutting blade for the slicing of said item;
- a pair of horizontally extending rods in said first section;
- a first plate supported by said rods in floating relationship with respect to said first section;
- a handle having a grasping surface and a rounded opposing surface adjacent a lower portion of said first plate;
- a second plate forming a part of said second section;
- and a pivot, responsive to user control, for rotating downwardly said handle grasping surface and for rotating upwardly said rounded opposing surface against said lower portion of said first plate, in actuating said first plate towards said cutting blade slot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.