Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/24—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain segments other than slices, e.g. cutting pies
  • B26D3/26—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain segments other than slices, e.g. cutting pies specially adapted for cutting fruit or vegetables, e.g. for onions
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D1/00—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor
  • B26D1/01—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
  • B26D1/04—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
  • B26D1/06—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member wherein the cutting member reciprocates
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/28—Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/28—Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting
  • B26D3/283—Household devices therefor
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/28—Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting
  • B26D3/283—Household devices therefor
  • B26D2003/285—Household devices therefor cutting one single slice at each stroke
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/28—Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting
  • B26D3/283—Household devices therefor
  • B26D2003/286—Household devices therefor having a detachable blade that is removable attached to the support
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/28—Splitting layers from work; Mutually separating layers by cutting
  • B26D3/283—Household devices therefor
  • B26D2003/287—Household devices therefor having a holder for the product to be cut

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of kitchen utensils for cutting food also known as mandolin.
• the present invention relates in particular to a mandolin adopting an inverted configuration that is to say where the blade moves relative to the vegetable.
• a mandolin is a kitchen utensil used to cut food and especially raw vegetables slices more or less thick.
• This vegetable cutter in general manual conventionally comprises a blade associated with a moving surface of the vegetable which moved back and forth on said surface and maintained in support of the latter by the user, is gradually cut.
• WO2012 / 097214 Another example of such a configuration is described in WO2012 / 097214.
• This document describes a hand-operated slicer incorporating a housing, a base and a reciprocating blade assembly.
• the housing has an upper portion, opposed side sides, a food holding chamber, and a passageway extending in the extension of the chamber between the lateral sides, aligned with a cutting plane.
• the base is coupled to the housing and configured to prevent the housing from moving during the cutting operation.
• the alternative blade assembly is slidably engaged in the housing passage and supports a blade that moves through or adjacent the food holding chamber as the assembly reciprocates. , to cut a food in the room.
• the blade assembly may be adjustable to change the thickness of the cut and may be convertible to create French fries, julienne cuts or the like.
• This configuration has several disadvantages, among them:
• the housing has a complex shape difficult to manufacture ensuring the guiding in translation of the blade assembly as well as that along a perpendicular axis of the support means on the vegetable,
• said casing is not associated with a container because it is associated with a base formed of folding elements constituting anti-sliding feet for the casing,
• the chamber and the support means on the vegetable do not adapt to the longitudinal or transverse cut or the shape of the vegetable
• the blade assembly can not be used as a conventional non-inverted mandolin.
• the mandolin food cutting device is of the type comprising a movable blade support defining a cutting plane and reciprocatingly moving in translation relative to the food in accordance with an inverted configuration. and having a sheath associated with a pusher allowing the introduction of food and their maintenance on the path of passage of the movable blade holder.
• This device is notable in that it comprises a container with an opening equipped with flanges providing sliding surfaces for said movable blade support,
• said cover being preformed with a passage which, transverse to the stroke of the movable blade support, accommodates the sheath associated with a pusher allowing the introduction of food and their maintenance on the path of passage of the movable blade holder.
• This device is particularly advantageous in that it comprises in its design a cut food storage module which will itself serve to support the reciprocal translation movement of the blade support.
• the independence of the container and its lid will allow easy release of the blade holder which can be used as a conventional mandolin.
• the cover assembly and movable blade support can be used separately from the tray.
• Another advantage lies in the ease of manufacture of simpler separate volumes. Indeed, by using the rim of the container as a sliding surface, the device of the invention distributes part of the implementation of the guide function on several elements which facilitates the manufacture including plastic molding.
• said flanges and cover are preformed so that said cover fits between the flanges and comes to provide longitudinal vertical guide surfaces to said movable blade support.
• the distribution between horizontal sliding surfaces preformed on the container and longitudinal vertical guide surfaces preformed on the cover makes it possible to transmit the strong constraints related to the thrust on the food (and therefore on the movable blade support) during cutting. , to the most massive element.
• the first pusher which, sliding while being in direct contact with the sheath, is preformed with a chute for the passage of smaller feedstocks, a second pusher sliding in said trough.
• This possibility of having a pusher adapted to the size of the food is particularly advantageous for the use of the device and to obtain a good cutting result.
• This second pusher is designed to retract into the first avoiding any projection of volume.
• said sheath has an oblong profile and is preformed to cooperate with said cover to allow several positions of the sheath with respect to said cover. This feature will allow the user to place the food in the most efficient position relative to the blade holder and facing the desired type of cut. More specifically, the sheath has a cylindrical base cooperating with a cylindrical cavity preformed in the cover to provide these possibilities of orientation.
• said movable blade support comprises at one end a preformed handle in its extension and facilitating its movement.
• the cutting tool is equipped to receive a detachable handle disposed in a plane perpendicular to the cutting plane. Such an arrangement for a handle is particularly suitable for reciprocating in a horizontal translation.
• said movable blade support is preformed to detachably accommodate one or more interchangeable cutting tools which provides the user with all cutting possibilities.
• the cutting tool comprises at least one blade associated with a support frame whose cooperation with the movable blade support allows a plurality of cutting thickness.
• the cutting tool comprises a blade associated with a support frame comprising bearing flanges cooperating with notches formed in the movable blade support.
• the cutting tool has also been the subject of particular attention by the applicant in adapting it to the proposed inverted configuration. Indeed, in order to exploit the fact that the blade support will perform a translational movement back and forth under the food to be cut, the device of the invention is remarkable in that the cutting tool has a blade with at least two cutting edges arranged symmetrically with respect to one another, the first being active in one direction and the second active in the other direction of the translation of the blade support. Such a characteristic makes it possible to work twice as fast for certain types of cutting.
• the cutting tool has a blade with a cutting edge having a sawtooth profile which facilitates the cutting of vegetables such as tomatoes and onions.
• said blade is equipped on its underside with a baffle disposed transversely to the axis of the displacement of the movable support and constituted by a downward projection providing downwardly guiding surfaces of the food during their cutting.
• this projection adopts a substantially V-shaped profile. The branches of the V orient down the cut portions of the foodstuffs and assist in their detachment.
• the device comprises an additional container that proposes a storage volume to utensils and that cooperates with the underside of the container so that it is inserted between the container and the work surface on which the device is supported.
• the mobile support, the lid and the tray are made of plastic and the blades of the cutting tool are made of stainless steel.
• Figure 1 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of an embodiment of a device according to the invention.
• Figure 2 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective view of the device of Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a schematic drawing of a top view of the device of Figure 1;
• Figure 4 is a schematic drawing of a sectional view of said device in a sectional plane shown in Figure 3;
• Fig. 5 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective view of an embodiment of the blade carrier whose end has been truncated;
• Figures 6, 7 and 8 are schematic drawings of side, front and top views of an embodiment of a cutting tool.
• the food cutting device illustrated by the drawings of Figures 1 to 4, is referenced D as a whole.
• this device D comprises a blade support 100 which moves in reciprocating translation movement symbolized by the double arrow F1 relative to a fixed body.
• This device D comprises a container 200 adopting here the shape of a boat hull.
• the device D adopts a substantially parallelepiped shape equipped with a bottom and substantially vertical side walls.
• the container 200 comprises in the upper part an opening 210 framed by upper edges 220. These edges 220 are preformed to provide sliding and guiding surfaces to the movable blade support 100. To do this, the edges 220 are preformed to adopt the shape of an L whose horizontal branch serves as a bearing surface and sliding during the movement in translation (according to the double arrow Fl).
• the vertical leg serves as an end stop to said movement while at the other end, the vertical leg is removed to allow the passage and thus the translational movement of said blade holder 100.
• the opening 210 accommodates a lid 300 which, independent of the container 200, closes it by cooperating with said flanges 220 and maintaining said movable blade support 100 in contact with the sliding surfaces.
• the cover 300 is sized to fit between the vertical legs of the L-shaped profile formed by the flanges 220.
• the cover 300 is preformed to provide longitudinal vertical guide surfaces to said movable blade support 100 in its movement along the double arrow Fl.
• the longitudinal edges 130 and 140 of said movable support 100 are provided with projections cooperating for guiding and retaining purposes with longitudinal grooves 320 and 330 formed in the underside of the lid 300.
• the portion of the cover 300 that covers the container rim portion 200 left free to allow the movable blade support 100 to pass is also perforated.
• the blade support 100 comprises as illustrated in the drawing of Figure 4, at one end a handle 110 preformed in its extension.
• the blade support is further preformed to accommodate a detachable handle disposed in a plane perpendicular to the cutting plane.
• Said cover 300 is preformed with an opening 310 which, transverse to the stroke (double arrow Fl) of the movable blade support 100, accommodates a substantially vertical sheath 400 accommodating the food to be cut.
• This sheath 400 is associated with a pusher 410 maintaining the introduced feeds (not shown on the path of passage of the blade movable support 100.
• the food is introduced into the sheath and pushed into the sheath 400 by the pusher 410 actuated by one hand by the user who actuates with his other hand, the blade holder 100 to make him follow a translational movement along the double arrow Fl between the container 200 and its lid 300 for cutting the food.
• said food pusher 410 slides in the sheath 400 and itself accommodates a pusher of smaller size 411:
• the first pusher 410 slides while being in direct contact with the hollow core of the sheath 400 and is preformed with a passage trough 412 for a food of smaller size
• the second 411 slides freely in the chute 412 and allows to push a food of smaller size to the cutting plane.
• This sheath 400 has an oblong profile but is preformed to cooperate with said cover 300. To do this, it comprises a circular base 420 which cooperates with a circular imprint adopted by the opening 310 formed in the cover 300.
• the sheath 400 and the cover 300 are detachable elements from one another which allow disassembly and adjustment of the position. Indeed, this cooperation between a circular base 420 and a circular housing 310 allows several positions of the sheath 400 with respect to said cover 300.
• the sheath 400 can thus be pivoted on its axis to provide several positions and therefore several directions of food relative to cutting tools.
• the opening 310 is formed in the cover 300 for the purpose of receiving the base of the sheath 400, at its rear portion.
• said movable blade support 100 is preformed to detachably accommodate one or more interchangeable cutting tools 500.
• the rear parts of the lid 300 and the container 200 are preformed with an opening facilitating the tool change 500 while the blade holder 100 is always engaged in the slide by giving access to the face side of said blade holder 100.
• It comprises a horizontal frame of which one of the lateral edges is preformed to constitute the handle 110.
• the middle portion of the frame is preformed to accommodate the cutting tool 500.
• the cutting tool 500 includes a cutting surface 510 associated with a support frame 520.
• the cutting surface 510 consists of a blade with two cutting edges 511 and 512 for cutting food in both directions of the reciprocating translation movement.
• the support frame comprises bearing flanges 521 and 522 which will cooperate with pairs of notches 151 and 152 preformed at different heights in the edges of a window 150 formed in the thickness of the movable blade support 100. bearing flanges in one or other of the pairs of notches allow the cutting thickness to be adjusted.
• two movable plates serve as a support plane for the food during the translational movement. of the blade support. These two plates pivot relative to a transverse axis allowing them to adjust the height of their edge by adjusting for example the position of said axis.
• the support flanges are shims adjustable in thickness to participate in this setting.
• the cutting tool 500 ' comprises a cutting surface 510' associated with a support frame 520 '.
• the cutting surface 510 '' has two cutting edges with a sawtooth profile.
• This embodiment is furthermore remarkable in that the support frame 520 'adopts, at its plane of symmetry transverse to the axis of displacement, a downward projection 521' over substantially the entire length of the surface of the 510 'cut, projection that adopts the profile of a flared V to serve as a deflector for cut food. Indeed, once the cut food or during their cutting, the inclined planes defined by said projection 521 'will orient downwards and contribute to better cutting.
• the various utensils, tools and shims can advantageously be stored in an additional container 600 that cooperates with the underside of the container 100 so that it is inserted between the container 200 and the working surface on which the device D is in position. support.
• the container 200 and the container 600 are advantageously equipped with anti-slip blocks on their underside.
• an additional container can associate with the first.

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