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US 5,421,249 AGranted
Food wedger
AssigneeMilton Industries, Inc.
InventorsMilan Repisky, Anton Tur
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AssigneeMilton Industries, Inc.
InventorsMilan Repisky, Anton Tur
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A food wedger for slicing food such as apples into wedge shaped segments and coring the food comprises a frame having a base that supports a cutter assembly. The cutter assembly comprises a plurality of cutter blades radiating outwardly and upwardly from a central ring in an inverted cone-shaped radial array. The blades are fixed to the central ring and, are fixed at the periphery of the assembly to a peripheral support ring. A tapered segmented pusher having radial slots and a central pin is mounted for selective advancement through the cutter assembly. When so advanced, the blades of the assembly pass through the slots and the central pin of the pusher passes through the central ring of the cutter assembly. Food to be wedged is placed in the cutter assembly and the pusher is advanced through the cutter to force the food past the blades, which cuts the periphery of the food into wedge-shaped segments. The core of the food is, at the same time, cut away by the central ring. The food wedges are pressed completely through the cutter assembly by the pusher and the core of the food is pressed completely through the central support ring by the central pin of the pusher, thus clearing the wedger completely in preparation for successive cuts.
An apparatus for slicing a work piece into wedge-shaped segments, said apparatus comprising:
A food item wedger comprising a frame, a conical cup of internally sharp radially arrayed blades mounted in said frame with said blades defining substantially wedge-shaped spaces therebetween, said blades being arrayed about a central support ring that defines an opening at the apex of said conical cup of blades, a plunger mounted on said frame for reciprocal movement toward and away from said blades for pressing a food item through the radial array of blades to wedge the food item, said plunger having a plurality of radially arrayed slots into which said blades are received as said plunger is advanced progressively through said array of blades and a central pin sized and positioned to pass through said opening defined by said support ring as said plunger is advanced through said array of blades, whereby the peripheral portion of the food item is sliced into wedge-shaped segments by the radially arrayed blades and the core of the food item is removed from the peripheral portion of the food item by the central support ring, the wedge-shaped segments and the core being pressed completely through the radial array of blades by the advancing plunger.
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