ROTARY SLICING TOOL FOR MAKING NEAT, COMPLETE SLICES IN A FOOD PROCESSOR

摘要

1022.022 S P E C I F I C A T I O N ROTARY SLICING TOOL FOR MAKING NEAT, COMPLETE SLICES IN A FOOD PROCESSOR INVENTOR: CARL G. SONTHEIMER A rotary slicing tool is provided for use in a food processor and having an elongated hub with a horizontal disc-like member secured to the top of the hub for rotation therewith carrying an elevated slicing blade. The disc-like member has a horizontal area which may include a down-turned flange around its perimeter and has an arcuate slot extending from the hub out to the periphery of the disc-like member. The elevated arcuate slicing blade is mounted on the disclike member behind the slot with the cutting edge projecting forward and elevated above the level of the horizontal area and facing forward above the slot for slicing food items, with the delicate slices passing down through the slot. The arcuate slicing blade is mounted on an elevated arcuate rim of the disc extending forward toward and above the slot. For advantageously avoiding any smashing, stripping, shredding or other interference with the performance of a neat, uniform and complete slicing operation on each slice of the food items, an integral gradually sloping shoulder joins the horizontal area of the disc-like member with the elevated rim on which the arcuate slicing blade is mounted. Both ends of the slicing blade are contoured to conform with the rotational direction of travel; thus, the outer end conforms with the contour of the periphery of the disc-like member, and the inner end conforms with the contour of the hub, and the cutting edge is spaced well forward of the shoulder near both ends of the slicing blade. The shoulder is also gently sloped, rounded and contoured to conform with the relative direction of motion of the disc with respect to the delicate slices of food being formed and passing down through the slot in the fast-turning tool, whereby food items which are fed toward the disc-like member are uniformly sliced by the blade with the slices being gently deflected by or missing the gradually sloping contoured shoulder without being smashed or otherwise damaged particularly near the outer end of the fast-revolving slicing blade. In another embodiment the elevated rim on which the slicing blade is mounted comprises a relatively wide platform which in effect spaces the cutting edge farther ahead of the connecting shoulder to avoid interference by the shoulder with the delicate slices passing down through the slot in the fast-turning tool.