Abstract: A chute for mounting on an elevated surface having a passageway extending from a first end to a second end, the first end having a flange for supporting the chute on an elevated surface, and engaging an edge of the elevated surface, to support the chute. The passageway has a slope such that soiled eating utensils placed within the chute will pass through the passageway and out the second end of the chute into a waiting receptacle such as a tub or bin to receive soiled utensils to be washed.

Abstract: A boat hull includes a pair of spaced apart cavities formed in the bottom thereof. Mounted within each cavity is an electric trolling motor. An air purge system is provided for purging air from each cavity when the boat rests on a water surface. Additionally each cavity is closed at front and rear ends and is open from the bottom. The depth of each cavity varies from front to rear with a maximum depth occurring generally intermediately between the ends. In operation each trolling motor generates a propulsion stream of water that is directed generally rearedly and downwardly from the rear end of each cavity.

Abstract: A recreational boat comprising a boat hull having a bottom and a top deck. Formed in the bottom are two spaced apart elongated cavities that extend substantially the entire length of the boat. Disposed in each cavity intermediately between the front and rear of the boat is an electric trolling motor. Each electric trolling motor is independently controlled by a foot pedal mounted on the top deck. Hence, the boat is propelled by the trolling motor and can be steered by independently controlling each of the electric trolling motors.

Abstract: A sliced food article such as an onion, is quickly diced into a number of rectangular shaped pieces by forcing it through an upper and lower rack of parallel spaced blades such that the upper racks is at right angles to the lower rack forming a rectangular grid. The article, such as an onion, is forced through the rectangular spaces between the two racks of blades by a rectangular array of circular fingers depending from a plunger. The plunger slides along a pair of vertical guides towards and away from the blade. When the plunger is fully engaged with the blades, the free end of the fingers extend completely through the lower rack of blades. The base has four legs to give the device a steady foundation.

Abstract: A rounded food article, such as an onion, is quickly sliced into a number of slices by a manual device with a plurality of racks of parallel spaced tensioned blades mounted to the base at an acute angle. A transversing carrier assembly slides along guide rods in the base and is actuated by a pusher handle pivotally mounted to the base and pusher bar pivotally mounted to the pusher handle and the carrier assembly. The carrier assembly has a carrier plate and carrier fingers which are a parallel array of planor segments mounted above and parallel with the carrier plate and intermesh with the plurality of racks of blades. The food article is placed on the carrier plate and forced through the racks of blades by the carrier fingers, thereby slicing the onion into a number of slices. A guard mounted on the base shields the sharp edges of the blades.

Abstract: A rounded food article, such as a tomato is quickly sliced into a number of slices by a manual device with a rack of parallel spaced tensioned blades mounted to the base at an acute angle. A transversing carrier assembly slides along guide rods in the base. The carrier assembly has a carrier plate and carrier fingers which are a parallel array of planor segments mounted above and parallel with the carrier plate and intermesh with the blade rack. The food article is placed on the carrier plate and carried through the blade rack by the movement of the carrier plate and fingers, thereby slicing the tomato into a number of slices. A guard mounted on the base shields the sharp edge of the blades. With the carrier in the open position the rack of blades in combination with the carrier fingers and guard creates a vertical cavity in which the food article to be sliced is inserted.

Abstract: A rounded food article, such as a tomato or potato, is quickly 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 fingers depending from a plunger to which a handle is attached. The plunger assembly slides over a pair of vertical guides 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 plunger includes obstructing tabs in the event both vertical rods are not properly engaged in the plunger, such that the plunger is angularly displaced and the fingers strike the base rather than the blades or spike. Four legs give the device a steady foundation and raise the base sufficiently from the table to allow the long food sections to be freely discharged onto it.

Abstract: A set of blades is held in the blade-supporting section of a base frame connected to a mounting section, which attaches it to a table surface with the blades overhanging the surface. A pusher head having a number of fingers is pivotally connected to the mid-portion of a handle which is rotatably mounted on the frame. A tilting linkage is rotatably connected to the pusher and to the frame for disposing the pusher more directly through the blades at the end of its stroke than if the pusher were rigidly attached to the handle. The chopped pieces pass directly to the container in a free space below the blade section of the frame. Pairs of struts and tilting linkages balance and stabilize the operating action.

Abstract: A guarded tomato slicer has a sharp rack of blades mounted substantially diagonally across a table with a loading area disposed between a retracted pusher and the sharp edges of the blades. A swinging vertical gate is mounted in front of the loading area on a vertical pivot adjacent the rack of blades. The gate is resiliently poised in front of the loading area. The gate and pusher are short enough to clear each other when a tomato is pushed into the loading area against and through the swinging gate, which covers the sharp edges of the rack of blades to guard them. The swinging gate has an apertured roof to shield the top of the loading area. As deflectable outer segment of the roof has a projection which provides an outward limit of travel for the swinging gate and is deflectable to permit removal of the swinging gate. The pusher is mounted on a pair of horizontal slide rods connected to the top of the rack having lower extensions which extend downwardly together to provide a support foot.

Abstract: The cutting action in a rotary slicer is provided by a pair of circular disc blades, which are mounted in apertures in a circular plate, which is rotated within an outer casing. The plate rotates adjacent a feeding chute at one side of the casing and the depth of the slice is adjusted by varying the distance of the blade in front of the circular plate. The cut slices pass between the blades and apertures into the rear of the casing, which discharges them downwardly. The blades are mounted on a lobular bracket supported on a central shaft in a fixed longitudinal position. The depth of cut is varied by moving the apertured plate back and forth along the shaft to a position governed by a C-shaped stop ring with a calibrated shaft extending outwardly from the rear shaft bearing. The plate is detachably secured to the shaft by a thumb screw accessible through an ample cut-out in the top of the rear casing.

Abstract: A device for slicing tomatoes and other soft food objects has a hollow triangular enclosure frame with three vertical sides disposed about an open interior into which tomatoes are inserted. The longest vertical side or hypotenuse side of the vertical frame enclosure carries a tensioned rack of parallel blades with sharp cutting edges facing inwardly. The opposite intermediate length side of the frame has a pusher sliding back and forth along it with spaced fingers inserted between the opposite cutting blades. Insertion of tomatoes is facilitated by a vertically movable loading platform mounted within the frame which can be manually raised by a push rod at the top to receive a tomato and then lowered below the path of movement of the pusher to permit the pusher to traverse the tomato along and through the cutting edges of the blades to slice it. The loading platform has a table rotatably mounted at the top of a lifting lever which is rotatably mounted at the bottom of the frame.

Abstract: A guard for preventing the operator's fingers from contacting the sharp edges of a parallel rack of blades in a food slicer, such as a tomato slicer is provided by a set of parallel planar segments intermeshed between and extending slightly in front of the sharp edges of the blades when the pusher is deployed away from the blades in position for introducing the object (tomato) to be sliced between the pusher and blades. A latch, such as a gravity latch, holds the assembly in the open guarded position until the tomato is introduced and the latch is released. In a rotary slicer a small portion of the blades adjacent the pusher are unguarded to facilitate introduction and prescoring of the tomato.

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.