# US 7,900,544 B2 · Combination food preparation device

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- Number: US 7,900,544 B2
- Document ID: US7900544B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/265,840
- Filed: 2005-11-03
- Published: 2007-05-03
- Granted: 2011-03-08
- Earliest claimed: 2005-11-03
- Inventors: Collis H. Williams
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7900544B2

## CPC

- B26D 3/185: {Grid like cutters}
- B26D 3/26: specially adapted for cutting fruit or vegetables, e.g. for onions
- B26D 3/283: {Household devices therefor}
- B26D 3/28: Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting (B26D3/30 takes precedence; Recovery of plastics or other constituents of waste material containing plastics B29B17/00)
- B26D 9/00: Cutting apparatus combined with punching or perforating apparatus or with dissimilar cutting apparatus
- B26D 2003/285: {cutting one single slice at each stroke}
- B26D 2003/287: {having a holder for the product to be cut}
- B26D 2003/288: {making several incisions and cutting cubes or the like, e.g. so-called "julienne-cutter"}
- Y10T 83/023: With infeeding of work
- Y10T 83/6476: Including means to move work from one tool station to another
- Y10T 83/6489: Slitter station
- Y10T 83/6584: Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
- Y10T 83/6585: Including nonconcurrently acting tool
- Y10T 83/6616: Having means to actuate pusher
- Y10T 83/9292: Wire tool
- Y10T 83/9493: Stationary cutter
- B26D: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; manufacturing footwear A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used formetal B23; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13B45/00; for textile materials D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, see Section E; for light guides G02B6/25; cutting processed photographic material G03D15/04)
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A combination slicing and dicing food processing device. The device generally includes a cutting box and gliding body which travels back and forth across the cutting box. The gliding body features a food cradle that is configured to hold a food product which is to be processed. The food cradle is attached on one end of a principal cutting arm and a handle is attached to the other end of the principal cutting arm. A secondary cutting arm is provided beneath and attaching to the principal cutting arm. A ram is provided on the end of the secondary cutting arm and positioned slightly behind the food cradle so that the rain trails the food cradle as the food gliding body travels back and forth across the cutting box. The cutting box includes a principal cutting blade near one end and a process slot for receiving slices of the food product which are sliced off by the principal cutting blade. The slices are received in a collapsing bin in front of the ram before they are finally processed by a dicing card or julienne cutting card and received in a receiving bin.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A food processing device for processing food comprising:
a. a food cradle for holding said food;
b. a primary cutting blade, configured to slice off a portion of said food;
c. a first means for enabling said food cradle to travel towards said primary cutting blade;
d. a secondary cutting blade for further processing said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade;
e. a second means for enabling said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade to travel towards said secondary cutting blade, said second means including an arm and a ram, said arm having a first end and a second end, said first end connecting said arm to said first means, and said ram attached to said second end of said arm;
f. wherein said ram of said second means is positioned below and follows behind in motion of said cradle so that said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade falls in front of said ram of said second means after said portion of said food is sliced off by said primary cutting blade;
g. wherein said food cradle is fixably positioned ahead of said ram of said second means; and
h. a cutting box, said cutting box including:
i. a top, said top having a first side and a second side;
ii. a bottom;
iii. a hollow interior situated between said top and said bottom;
iv. wherein said second side of said top faces said hollow interior; and
v. wherein said food cradle and said primary cutting blade are positioned on said first side of said top of said cutting box, and said second means is positioned in said hollow interior of said cutting box.

### Claim 2

A food processing device for processing food comprising:
a. a food cradle for holding said food;
b. a primary cutting blade, configured to slice off a portion of said food;
c. a first means for enabling said food cradle to travel towards said primary cutting blade;
d. a secondary cutting blade for further processing said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade;
e. a second means for enabling said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade to travel towards said secondary cutting blade; and
f. a cutting box, said cutting box including
i. a top, said top having a first side and a second side;
ii. a bottom;
iii. a hollow interior situated between said top and said bottom;
iv. a gliding slot in said top of said cutting box through which said first means is attached to said second means thereby allowing said first means and said second means to travel together in unison
v. wherein said second side of said top faces said hollow interior;
g. wherein said food cradle and said primary cutting blade are positioned on said first side of said top of said cutting box, and said second means is positioned in said interior of said cutting box, and wherein said ram of said second means is positioned below and follows behind in motion of said cradle so that said portion of said food sliced off by said primary cutting blade falls in front of said ram of said second means after said portion of said food is sliced off by said primary cutting blade; and
h. wherein said food cradle is fixably positioned ahead of said second means.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The food processing device of claim 2, said cutting box further comprising a process slot in said top, said process slot configured to receive said portion of said food when said portion of food is sliced off by said primary cutting blade.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The food processing device of claim 2, further comprising a cutting card, said cutting card comprising a frame and a first plurality of cutting blades mounted in said frame, said cutting card configured to removably mount within said interior of said cutting box.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The food processing device of claim 4, wherein said first plurality of cutting blades are positioned in substantially parallel orientation with respect to each other.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The food processing device of claim 5, further comprising a second plurality of cutting blades, said second plurality of cutting blades positioned in substantially parallel orientation with respect to each other and in substantially perpendicular orientation with respect to said first plurality of cutting blades.