# US 8,783,172 B2 · Device for mincing food > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,783,172 B2 - Document ID: US8783172B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/570,514 - Filed: 2009-09-30 - Published: 2010-05-06 - Granted: 2014-07-22 - Earliest claimed: 2008-10-30 - Assignees: Leifheit AG - Applicants: Markus Klotz - Inventors: Markus Klotz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8783172B2 ## CPC - A47J 19/06: Juice presses for vegetables - A47J 43/255: {with grating discs or drums} - B26D 3/26: specially adapted for cutting fruit or vegetables, e.g. for onions - B26D 7/0608: {by pushers (B26D7/0616, B26D7/0625 and B26D7/0641 take precedence)} - A47J: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES - 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) ## Abstract A device for mincing food includes at least one cutting blade or grater and a feed device. Food to be minced is feedable through the feed device to the at least one cutting blade or grater. The feed device includes parallel first and second mutually opposing inner walls. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device for mincing food comprising: a beaker including at least one cutting blade or grater disposed at a bottom of the beaker; and a feed device through which food to be minced is feedable to the at least one cutting blade or grater, the feed device being rotatable disposed in the beaker and including a perimeter with a conical inner bounding wall and a core disposed within the perimeter that has a conical outer surface disposed in parallel to the conical inner bounding wall of the perimeter; wherein an inner volume of the feed device is formed by at least one of cones and conical sections disposed in a spaced-apart relation; and wherein the feed device is injection molded in a mold having inversely movable, conical parts. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the feed device includes an annular cross section. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the feed device is movably disposed relative to the at least one cutting blade or grater. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the feed device is rotatable with respect to the at least one cutting blade or grater. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, further comprising a driving element disposed in the feed device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 5, wherein the driving element includes a separating wall. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, further comprising a releasable detent device configured to fix the feed device within the beaker and allow rotation therebetween. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the beaker includes a conical design such that the feed device is removable therefrom. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein a conicity of an outer surface of the feed device is the same as a conicity as an inner surface of the beaker. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, further comprising a pusher removably disposable in the feed device and configured to push the food to be minced through the feed device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the feed device is injection molded in a mold having a two-part design. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the inversely movable, conical parts are joinable such that mutually opposing outer surfaces of the mold, when assembled, are parallel. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The device for mincing food as recited in claim 1, wherein the device is configured to cut garlic.