Sharpener assembly for a food slicer and related method
AssigneePremark FEG L.L.C.
InventorGongpu Yan
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Abstract
A sharpener assembly for a food slicer includes a rotatable frame with a sharpening member and a truing member operatively connected for rotation with the frame. The frame is mounted on a food slicer to place the sharpening member and truing member on opposed sides of a slicer knife. The frame is rotated to rotate the sharpening member and the truing member into contact with respective sides of the slicer knife.
Claims15
A food slicer comprising:
- a base;
- a disc-like slicing knife mounted for rotation on said base and having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a knife guard extending about a portion of said peripheral cutting edge of said knife and including first and second side portions extending along respective first and second sides of said knife;
- a sharpener assembly detachably mounted to said base and including a frame having first and second spaced mount arms with a connecting member extending between said mount arms, a first shaft extending from said first mount arm and having a first abrasive wheel connected to an end thereof, a second shaft extending from said second mount arm and having a second abrasive wheel connected to an end thereof, said first abrasive wheel positioned on said first side of said knife and said second abrasive wheel positioned on said second side of said knife;
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- wherein said first side portion of said knife guard includes a first open region alignable with said first abrasive wheel and said second side portion of said knife guard includes a second open region alignable with said second abrasive wheel, said knife guard extends about said peripheral cutting edge of said knife in both an area to one side of said first and second open regions and in an area to an opposite side of said first and second open regions.
A food slicer comprising:
- a rotatable slicing knife having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a sharpener assembly mounted to the slicer and including a rotatable frame, first and second spaced abrasive wheels operatively connected to rotate with the frame, the first abrasive wheel positioned on a first side of the rotatable slicing knife and the second abrasive wheel positioned on a second side of the rotatable slicing knife, a handle member operatively connected for rotating the frame member in a direction so as to rotate the first abrasive wheel into contact with the first side of the knife and the second abrasive wheel into contact with the second side of the knife.
The food slicer of clam 9 wherein the sharpener assembly further comprises a fixed mount head positioned adjacent the rotatable frame, and adjustable means for limiting rotation of the frame relative to the mount head.
A food slicer comprising:
- a rotatable slicing knife having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a sharpener assembly mounted to the slicer and including a first abrasive member positioned on a first side of the rotatable slicing knife, a second abrasive member positioned on a second side of the rotatable slicing knife, and a handle member operatively connected with the first abrasive member and the second abrasive member, when the handle is moved the first abrasive member is rotated toward and into contact with the first side of the knife and the second abrasive member is rotated toward and into contact with the second side of the knife.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.