Meat shredder
OwnerHerby Colemaninventor
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Abstract
A meat-shredding apparatus to be used in the preparation of filling for sandwiches, tacos, burritos and the like, which comprises a comminuting surface, having vertical parallel rows of sharpened teeth, slideably mounted on side rails secured to an inclined frame, a set of pivotally-connected arms which transmit the up and down movement of a hand lever to the comminuting surface, a hopper for holding meat to be shredded, said hopper being rigidly attached to said frame and having its inner open end facing the cutting side of said comminuting surface, and a pair of crenellate-edged wiping plates pivotally mounted under spring tension on said hopper for freeing shreds of meat which become jammed between the teeth of said comminuting surface.
Claims8
An apparatus for shredding fibrous substances which comprises:
- a main support frame;
- parallel rails secured to said main support frame;
- a comminuting surface having parallel rows of teeth and slideably mounted on said rails;
- said teeth being shaped and sharpened to shred in only one direction;
- a hand lever capable of vertical oscillatory movement;
- means for transmitting said vertical oscillatory movement to said comminuting surface;
- a hopper for holding meat to be shredded, said hopper being rigidly attached to said frame and having its inner open end facing said comminuting surface;
- at least one comb-edged wiping plate pivotally and resiliently mounted on the inner open end of said hopper;
- said plate being biased to clear the passage of shredded substance when said comminuting surface moves in said one direction, and to wipe pieces of substance caught between the teeth of said comminuting surface with its moves in the opposite direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.