Abstract: A rounded food article, such as a lemon, tomato or apple, is instantaneously divided into a number of radial sections by forcing it through a conical cup of radial blades within which it is impaled on a central spike to which the central ends of the blades are joined. The article is forced through the wedge-shaped spaces between the blades by an annular array of bent rod fingers depending from a head to which an operating handle is attached. The plunger assembly slides over a pair of vertical rods towards the blade assembly engaged within a recess in the base. The fingers extend completely through the blades when the plunger is fully engaged within the blades. The substantial weight of the plunger facilitates its rapid downward movement toward the blade, and a set of three legs raise the base sufficiently from the table to allow the food sections to be freely discharged onto it.

Abstract: Two racks of parallel thin sharp blades are intermeshed in a crossed disposition within the open interior of a rectangular base frame. A pusher having a concave pocket and spaced ribs for entering between the crossed blades is reciprocally mounted upon the sides of the base frame. An object to be sliced is forced by the pusher through the junctions of the crossed blades. An auxiliary cutting blade may be mounted below the junctions of the blades to cut the slices pushed through the blades into two portions.