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US 8,584,565 B1Granted
Unique sausage shapes and devices and methods for processing sausages
OwnerEdward W. Horteliusinventor
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Abstract
This document provides devices and methods for processing elongate generally cylindrical food products. For example, this document provides devices and methods for longitudinally cutting sausages, and the sausage designs as cut thereby.
Claims9
A cutlery apparatus comprising:
- a base with a longitudinal axis, wherein the base has an elevated track that is adapted to support a sausage such that a major axis of the sausage is generally parallel with the longitudinal axis of the base;
- a cutting blade holder that is slidably engagable with the elevated track, whereby the cutting blade holder is slidable in a direction parallel with and in relation to the longitudinal axis of the base;
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- a cutting blade device extending from the cutting blade holder, wherein the cutting blade device has two or more cutting blades residing in planes that are nonparallel in relation to each other, such that the sausage receives a plurality of cuts having widths that are less than the diameter of the sausage, such that the sausage can be folded open.
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