Vegetable slicer

Details Vegetable slicer Vegetable slicer

1990-09-25

1991-11-12

Watts, Douglas D.

Cutlery

Cutting tools

Plural blade

30299, 30303, B26B 304, B26B 303, B26B 302

Patent

active

050636740

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a vegetable slicer of the `julienne` type.
Hand-held vegetable slicing devices are presently known. The Applicant's Australian Patent No. 535399 discloses a bean slicing device constructed of a two part plastic moulding, each part having teeth enabling the two parts to interfit to form a comb joint, and having blades imprisoned between adjacent teeth across a window through which the bean to be sliced is passed. This prior art device is designed to slice beans into longitudinal strips.
Although these prior art devices offer a simple and cheap method of slicing vegetable pieces, because only one set of substantially parallel blades are used, the resulting strips of vegetable have varying widths due to the natural irregularity in size and shapes of vegetables.
Not only do the resulting slices look untidy and aesthetically poor, but also, cooking times of the different pieces are dissimilar, resulting in some pieces being overcooked and `mushy` while some will be undercooked and `crunchy`. This problem is particularly enhanced in recent times, with the widespread use of microwave ovens for cooking, which requires food to be prepared with even consistency for optimal uniform cooking.
The present invention seeks to overcome the disadvantages and drawbacks of prior art vegetable slicing devices by providing an improved vegetable cutting device which will cut vegetables into a plurality of longitudinal slivers of substantially uniform cross-section. Such a device provides slivers of vegetable which are of more advantageous size and shape, rendering the vegetables more aesthetically pleasing as well as more functionally useful prior to the cooking process. With the slivers of vegetable being of more uniform cross-sectional thickness, they will have substantially similar cooking time.
In one broad form the present invention provides a vegetable cutting device, comprising:
a main body member, having a window therethrough provided with a set of downwardly extending teeth on a pair of opposed sides thereof, and having a handle extending therefrom;
at least one intermediate member adapted to engage said main body member, provided with a window therethrough, and having, a first set of upwardly extending teeth provided on a first pair of opposed side thereof, and, a second set of downwardly extending teeth provided on a second pair of opposed sides thereof in a direction transverse to said first set of teeth;
a bottom member adapted to engaged with said main body member, provided with a window therethrough and having a set of upwardly extending teeth on a pair of opposed sides thereto; and,
at least two transverse sets of blades, each adapted to engage between each of said upwardly and downwardly extending sets of teeth, respectively.
The present invention will become more fully understood from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded isometric view of the vegetable cutting device in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the handle and top body portion of the vegetable cutting device in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 3 illustrates a sectional end view along line B--B of the handle and body portion of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 and FIG. 4(a) detail sectional side views along line A--A of two preferred embodiments of the handle and body portion of FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 shows a plan view of the intermediate moulded portion of the vegetable cutting device of the present invention;
FIG. 6 and FIG. 6(a) illustrate sectional views along line C--C of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 and FIG. 7(a) illustrate a sectional views along lines D--D of FIG. 5;
FIG. 8 shows a plan view of the bottom portion of the vegetable slicing device of the present invention;
FIG. 9 and FIG. 9(a) detail sectional views along line E--E of the bottom portion of the vegetable slicer shown in FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 details sectional views along line F--F of the bottom portion of FIG. 8.
The vegetable cutting

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