Apparatus for cutting potatoes and onions

- The West Bend Company

An apparatus for cutting a potato into a helical shape, the apparatus having a hollow, generally cylindrical body, a cutting plate having a top side and a bottom side located in the body for cutting a potato into a helical shape when a potato is inserted into the body, forced against the cutting plate and rotated around the longitudinal axis of the body, the cutting plate having a plurality of vertical blades for cutting a potato extending perpendicularly upward from the cutting plate and a horizontal blade located above the cutting plate for cutting a potato, and a feeding apparatus for forcing a potato onto the cutting plate and for rotating the potato about the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body to cut the potato into a helical shape, and an apparatus for cutting an onion into a helical shape, the apparatus having a hollow, generally cylindrical body, a cutting plate having a top side and a bottom side located in the body for cutting an onion into a helical shape when an onion is inserted into the body, forced against the cutting plate and rotated around the longitudinal axis of the body, the cutting plate having a horizontal blade located above the cutting plate for cutting an onion, and a feeding apparatus for forcing an onion onto the cutting plate and for rotating the onion about the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body to cut the onion into a helical shape.

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Patent History
Patent number: RE36155
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 18, 1995
Date of Patent: Mar 23, 1999
Assignee: The West Bend Company
Inventor: David J. Scallen (Bentley, LA)
Primary Examiner: Timothy F. Simone
Law Firm: Jansson, Shupe, Bridge & Munger, Ltd.
Application Number: 8/529,831