CH321802A - Apparatus for dividing and chopping food - Google Patents

Description

Apparatus for dividing and chopping food The present invention relates to an apparatus for dividing and chopping food, characterized in that it comprises a propeller intended to grasp the food and to compress it gradually on a base. , knives integral with said bottom, and a knife provided at the lower end of the propeller for chopping and cutting food.

In general, we have already produced devices for dividing and cutting vegetables for making soup, for example.

These devices do not allow fine and easy cutting of stringy vegetables; moreover, as regards the raw meat, the latter rolls on the bottom of the apparatus and only passes through the bottom holes with difficulty and imperfectly, obliging the housewife to dismantle the apparatus.

The object of the present invention is to obviate these disadvantages and to be able to serve both for straining vegetables and as a meat grinder.

In the appended drawing are shown, by way of example, three embodiments of the apparatus forming the subject of the present invention.

fig. 1 shows in plan the bottom plate and the hglice. fig. 2 gives an elevational view of the bottom plate and propeller.

fig. 3 represents a partial bottom view of the propeller.

fig. 4 shows a variant embodiment of the h61ice knife.

fig. 5 gives an e16vation view of the bottom plate according to a variant.

fig. 6 represents the bottom plate according to another variant.

fig. 7 is a plan view of a bottom and 1'hdlice.

fig. 8 gives a section along 1-1 of FIG. 1.

fig. 9 shows a cross-section of a variant of the propeller knife.

fig. 10 shows another variant of the propeller blade.

According to the embodiment represented in FIGS. 1 to 3, the bottom 1 of the device of any shape carries blades 2 arranged radially.

In front of each knife 2, for the direction of rotation, there is an opening 3 intended to allow the evacuation of the pieces of minced, cut and divided meat or vegetables.

Preferably, the opening 3 is preceded by holes or cutouts forming tabs 4 which are slightly raised, which allows better cutting of the divided food, as has moreover already been recommended for the various kitchen appliances from gehre.

The bottom 1 cooperates with a propeller 5 intended to seize the food to be divided and chopped, then to bring them under progressive pressure towards the bottom; finally to press them on this said background.

At the lower end of the propeller is provided a knife 6, having an angular shape, intended to come into progressive contact with the knives 2 and to chop the food pressed on the bottom.

The angular shape given to the knife 6 is intended to ensure a new compression of the materials to be chopped; indeed, after having been compressed under the effect of a vertical pressure due to the propeller on the bottom, the food is compressed laterally.

Thus, the food to be chopped is compressed between the propeller and the bottom, as well as between the two angularly arranged parts of the cutting edge of the knife 6.

Another advantage of the knife 6, placed under the lower edge of the propeller, resides in the good maintenance of the food to be chopped which cannot move and is thus necessarily subjected to the action of the knives 2 and 6.

In the drawing, the first cutting edge of the knife 6 is in two parts forming an obtuse angle; but it goes without saying that a compression of the foodstuffs already squeezed by the knife 6 between the bottom and the propeller can be obtained by giving the two parts of the cutting edge either a right angle or an acute angle.

In a variant, the tightening of the material already compressed between the bottom and the helix can be carried out by presenting the knife 6 in the form of a curve or even by giving a greater or lesser angle to the meeting of the two parts constituting said cutting edge.

In fig. 4, there is shown a knife 6' whose cutting edge is wavy to facilitate severing of food.

Lateral pressure of the food compressed by the propeller on the bottom can be further increased by making the bottom knives 2' also angular, but the opening of which is directed in the opposite direction to that of the knife 6 of the bottom. 'h61ice (fig. 5).

The knives 2' are preceded by openings 3 of generally any shape; optionally, in front of the knives 2' can be provided evacuation holes 3" (fig. 6).

In RTI ID="0002.0278" WI="6" HE="4" LX="1273" LY="616"> a variant, the first bottom has a plain surface, the knives being in this Gas constituted by simple openings made in said background.

If this bottom is not very thick, the edge of the opening will in itself create a cutting edge, but for a significant thickness of the bottom, a cutting edge can be provided on the part of the opening opposite to the direction of advancement. , cutting edge which, in cooperation with the knife placed at the extremity of the helix, operates the sectioning, that is to say the division and the chopping.

According to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the first knife 6 of angular shape is made by bending the lower end of the propeller. It is thus possible to produce the Tors knife from the stamping of helix 5.

The bottom 1 is provided with openings, these being able to take the form of slots 7 or circular orifices B.

As shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the slots 7 and orifices 8 have a cutting edge 9 on the part of the opening opposite to the direction of advancement of the propeller 5, this cutting edge forming a knife.

The blade of the propeller can be perpendicular to the bottom, or form with it an obtuse angle (fig. 8), or an acute angle (figs. 9 and 10).

To increase the cut of the knife 6, the edge in contact with the bottom can be exposed, as shown in FIG. 10.

The angular shape given to the blade of the propeller is also intended to move the materials which would tend to slip out of its reach, that is to say in the center and at the periphery of the bottom and to bring them back towards the top of the angle, where the action is most effective, so that at the end of the operation there is no waste left in the device.

Claims (11)

CLAIM Apparatus for dividing and chopping food, characterized in that it comprises a propeller intended to seize the food and to compress it gradually On a bottom, knives integral with said bottom and a knife provided at the lower end of 1 propeller chopping and cutting food. SUB-CLAIMS 1. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food, according to claim, characterized in that the knife provided at the lower end of the propeller has an angular shape, the parts thus formed opening into the direction of movement of the propeller. 2. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food, according to claim and sub-claim 1, characterized in that the knives carried by the bottom are arranged radially. 3. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food, according to claim and sub-claim 1, characterized in that the knives carried by the bottom are of angular shape, the opening being directed towards that of the neck. - moving head carried by the propeller. 4. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food, according to claim and sub-claim 1, characterized in that the cutting edge of the knife provided at the lower end of the propeller is wavy in order to facilitate the drying - tion of the materials to be divided. 5. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim, characterized in that the bottom carries openings constituted by slots. 6. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim, characterized in that the bottom carries openings constituted by orifices. 7. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim and sub-claim 1, characterized in that the knife provided at the lower end of the propeller is formed by bending the lower edge of the latter. B. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim and sub-claim 7, characterized in that the knife provided at the lower end of the propeller is perpendicular to the bottom. 9. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim and sub-claim 7, characterized in that the knife provided at the lower end of the propeller forms an acute angle with the bottom. 10. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim and sub-claim 7, characterized in that the knife provided at the lower end of the impeller forms an obtuse angle with the bottom. 11. Apparatus for dividing and chopping food according to claim and sub-claim 7, characterized in that the edge of the knife in contact with the bottom is exposed.