Abstract: A bread slicer includes an infeed side and a hollow infeed assembly positioned in the infeed side, the infeed assembly having an open end and a closed end defining a chamber for receiving bread to be sliced. The bread slicer further includes a pusher for pushing the bread to be sliced along the infeed assembly, and a linkage connected to the pusher, the linkage adapted to move the infeed assembly from a bread receiving position to a predetermined position of a bread path, the linkage adapted to then move the pusher and the bread to be sliced along the bread path from the predetermined position to a delivery area. The bread slicer further includes slicing blades having sharp edges to slice bread moving along the bread path.

Abstract: A food holder for a grater or a slicer, having a shaft element into which food that is to be minced can be placed and through which it can be conveyed to a device for mincing foods that can be connected to the holder is characterized in that the shaft element has an elongated cross section.

Abstract: A food slicer has a support member including a base portion and an upstanding portion. The upstanding portion includes a rotating cutting blade for slicing food product and at least one motor for rotating the cutting blade. The base portion includes a food product table movable across the cutting blade for holding product while it is being sliced. An adjustable gage plate as well as a gage plate adjustment mechanism are provided for slice thickness adjustment. A table interlock mechanism includes at least one cable member in operable communication with the gage plate adjustment mechanism where a distal end of the cable member is lockable within a portion of the gage plate adjustment mechanism upon longitudinal movement of the cable member substantially parallel to the axis of the gage plate adjustment mechanism when both the food product table and the gage plate are positioned in particular positions.

Abstract: A slicer comprising a slicer body including a rotatable blade for slicing a product, and a tray mounted for reciprocal movement relative the slicer body and for supporting and moving the product relative the blade. The tray includes a tray body and a unitary handle. In another embodiment, the invention is a slicer including a slicer body having a rotatable blade for slicing a product and a tray for supporting the product and moving the product relative the blade. The slicer further includes a handle unitary with the tray, the handle providing a surface which a user may grip to manually move the tray.

Abstract: A carrier adapted to securely hold a workpiece for manual movement through cutting engagement such as with the saw blade of a band saw in a manner that allows for precise and predictable cutting of the workpiece into boards of desired thickness. The carrier is slidably positioned in the miter guide slot that extends in the saw work table parallel to the cut of the saw blade, and is adapted for manual positioning of the workpiece transversely with respect to the guide slot to adjust the depth of cut of the blade into the workpiece.

Abstract: A folding, straight-line, workpiece guide for a saw having a base, a saw blade extending vertically through the base, and a feed path relative to the saw blade. The workpiece guide comprises an elongated table which can be collapsed into a folded configuration or set up and locked into a working configuration. A carriage is constructed and arranged to support multiple elongated workpieces and to slide along the foldable table. The foldable table has multiple chassis sections pivotally connected to one another, adjustable legs, connectors for connecting the table to the base of the saw parallel to the feed path of the saw, and a guide track for guiding the carriage along the table when the table is in the working configuration.

Abstract: A slicer having an interlock mechanism, the slicer comprising a tray for receiving a food product to be sliced, the tray being movable along a slicing path and having a tray arm. The slicer further includes a blade for slicing the food product as the tray moves along the slicing path and a carriage having a locking arm for receiving the tray arm. The locking arm is movable between a release position wherein the tray arm can be placed into and removed from the locking arm, and a locking position wherein the tray arm cannot be placed into or removed from the locking arm. The slicer has a gauge plate adjuster for controlling the position of a gauge plate in the slicer, and the gauge plate adjuster has a recess formed therein. At least part of the locking arm is received in the recess of the gauge plate adjuster when the locking arm is in the release position.

Abstract: A carriage for a food slicer; wherein the carriage includes a tray for supporting a food product. The tray has a relatively flat portion and an upstanding side portion, a food gripping portion attached to the tray and at least one handle attached to the side portion of the tray for moving the tray in a reciprocating motion past the slicing blade. Preferably, the carriage includes a second handle such that the user can grasp either handle. The tray also includes a slide rod for slidably supporting the food gripping portion. The slide rod may be optionally mounted to either side of the tray, before or after the food product.

Abstract: The router table push shoe 10 of the present invention has an upwardly extending handle 11 which is angled slightly towards the operator and away from the router table fence 55. The push shoe of the present invention comes with an adjustable bottom guard 20 removably attached to the base 40, and an adjustable side guard 12 which can be removed and used as a bit height measuring tool. Both the bottom guard 20 and the side guard 12 are adjustable to enable the push shoe 10 to hold thin and narrow stock. The push shoe 10 also comes equipped with a miter bar 30. The horizontally adjustable bottom guard 20 is removably attached to the base 40 via a three wing knob 22. The push shoe also has formed in the front right corner a dovetail gauge 17 for making both male and female joints for sliding dovetail joints.

Abstract: A household slicing machine wherein a disc-shaped knife can be driven to rotate in a first vertical plane and a stop for the foodstuff to be sliced is mounted in the housing in a second vertical plane which is parallel to the first plane. The stop is shiftable at right angles to the first plane to change the thickness of the slices and the adjusting device which shifts the stop relative to the knife has a pair of coaxial sleeves rotatably mounted on the stop and defining a helical path having several sections with different leads. A stationary carrier is provided on a working platform in front of the support and has a follower which extends into the helical path.

Abstract: A food slicer having a rotatable circular knife and a hopper releasably mounted on a carriage which is movable from an initial position towards and across the knife to cut food on the hopper into slices. A gauge plate is provided to adjust the thickness of cut as the hopper moves the food past the knife and a safety device is incorporated to prevent the hopper being removed from the carriage unless it is at its initial position. The safety device comprises a latch on the carriage holding the hopper thereon and a release mechanism engagable with the latch as the hopper is moved to its initial position to release it from the carriage.

Abstract: A slicing machine having a housing containing an electric motor in driving connection with a circular blade for slicing meat, cheese and the like, the housing having an adjustable stop plate mounted thereon in proximity with a portion of the circular blade to permit a user to select a desired slice thickness and which also provides a blade guard when the slicing machine is stored. A wedge-shaped table member which slidably fits over the blade in engagement with the housing to provide a cover for storage and can be slidably fitted to said housing to provide a table extending from a front portion of said housing. A curved dish access member, having an integral arcuate ledge, formed integral with a rear portion of the housing provides means whereby a dish may be placed in proximity with the housing during operation, not only to receive sliced foodstuffs but also the juices therefrom.