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US 6,318,222 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for uniform even slicing
OwnerJoseph Bernard Weinman, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A cutting implement with a blade, a handle, and a tip, used in conjunction with a planar support surface upon which food or a similar substance rests. The handle and tip cooperate to maintain the blade parallel to, and a pre-determined distance from, the support surface during a reciprocal horizontally-translating slicing motion, thus ensuring that slices are produced with two parallel planar surfaces which are uniformly of a pre-determined thickness.
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In combination with a planar support surface, apparatus comprising:
- a cutting apparatus having a cutting edge which has a first end and a second end and adapted to cut material, and said cutting apparatus being movable with respect to said planar support surface;
- a first support means for maintaining said first end a pre-determined distance from said planar support surface;
- a second support means for maintaining said second end said pre-determined distance from said planar support surface;
- whereby said first support means and said second support means cooperate to maintain said cutting edge substantially parallel to and said pre-determined distance from said planar support surface.
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In combination with a planar support surface, apparatus comprising:
- a cutting apparatus having a cutting edge, said cutting edge having a first end and a second end and adapted for cutting material in a cutting plane;
- wherein the support surface has an uppermost locus of points defining a support plane substantially parallel to said cutting plane, said support surface placed below said cutting apparatus and therefore below said cutting plane;
- a handle attached at said first end, where at least one handle-surface point on a handle-surface of said handle is in said support plane that is substantially parallel to, and below, said cutting plane, at a distance from said cutting plane, and all points of said handle that are not in said support plane are above said support plane;
- a guide attached to said second end, where at least one guide-surface point on a guide-surface of the guide is in said support plane, at said distance from the cutting plane, and all other points of the guide that are not in said support plane are above the support plane.
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