EFFICIENT SELF-CLEANING FOOD CHOPPER

摘要

A novel and useful food chopper that includes a cutter having cutting edges arranged to form one or more cells and spring loaded plungers disposed and supported within the cells. The plungers include wipers extending around the circumference of the plungers at or near their bottoms. During a chopping cycle, the plungers are pushed back by the food to be chopped and compress their associated spring. When released, the wipers on each plunger squeegee the inner walls of the cell thereby achieving a cleaning action. Chopped food waste is minimized by careful placement of the wipers on the body of the plungers, placement of the plungers within the cells and by having a substantially flat bottom surface of the plungers which are mostly flush with the cutting edges of the cutter. Use of the wiper permits the food chopper to achieve very efficient chopping with minimal waste and a self-cleaning mechanism.

主权项

1. A food chopper, comprising:
a housing; a cutter having one or more cutting edges arranged to form one or more cells having inner walls; one or more plungers, each plunger having a wiper and springedly moveable within a cell of said cutter; and wherein said wiper is operative to remove food from the inner walls of its respective cutter cell in response to movement of said plunger.