Abstract: A food cutting tool. The food cutting tool has a body with an outer perimeter wall and an inner perimeter wall. The inner perimeter wall defines an open central area with a channel opening towards the open central area. The channel is sized to receive a plurality of wires which are utilized to cut through a piece of food. The plurality of wires is disposed diametrically across the open central area and each end of a wire is affixed in the channel of the inner perimeter wall. The plurality of wires is adjustably secured to the inner perimeter wall thereby enabling a user to selectively adjust the spacing between individual wires. In operation, the user places the food cutting tool over a piece of food and press down on the body, forcing the plurality of wires through the piece of food to divide the food into even portions.

Abstract: Among other things, there are disclosed embodiments of a cutting device for foods, having two opposed handles and a grid of filaments connected to them. In particular embodiments, a spindle within one handle allows the grid to be wound around it. The spindle may be biased, e.g. with a spring, and may include holding or braking mechanisms to hold the grid in a desired configuration.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a device and method for removing an article attached to a mounting surface by an adhesive mounting. Preferably, the device comprises a first grip, a second grip and a filament having a first end attached to the first grip and a second end attached to the second grip. The filament operates such that when placed between the mounting surface and the adhesive mounting and pulled by the first and second grip in a direction along a bonding plane, it operates to separate the adhesive mounting from the mounting surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool for preparing an avocado, which comprises a scoop and a slicer. The tool is transformable between a first state in which the scoop and the slicer are positioned at a same end of the tool and used cooperatively to scoop and slice the pulp of the avocado simultaneously, and a second state in which the scoop and the slicer are positioned at opposite ends of the tool and used separately.

Abstract: A rotating blade food preparation device (10) for cutting, shaving, slicing, and peeling, vegetables and fruits, cheese, tofu, bread, and other food products, includes a handle (12), a frame element (16) connected to the handle (12), and a rotating blade assembly (28) operably secured to the frame. The rotating blade assembly (28) has one or more cutting elements (30) for cutting, slicing, shaving and peeling fruits, vegetables, cheese and other foods. The rotating blade assembly (28) is operably secured to the frame (16) by a shaft (18) allowing both movement and positioning of the blade assembly at various angles in relation to the frame (16), and fixing the rotating blade assembly (28) in a desired position for use.

Abstract: An avocado tool includes a handle having a first end and a second end, with a different tool head on each end. At the first end, the tool head is in the form of a tool configured for slicing avocados. At the second end, the tool head is in the form of a masher.

Abstract: A device for cutting, peeling and slicing avocados and other fruits and vegetables includes a handle, a frame element connected to the handle, and a rotating blade assembly operably secured to the frame. The rotating blade assembly has one or more cutting elements for cutting, slicing and peeling. The rotating blade assembly is operably secured to the frame by a shaft allowing both movement and positioning of the blade assembly at various angles in relation to the frame, and fixing the rotating blade assembly in a desired position for use.

Abstract: An apparatus for partitioning a food mass, such as a solidified egg, is disclosed including a base, a holder for supporting the food mass, and a plurality of cutting members for partitioning the food mass, wherein the holder is rotatable to permit the cutting members to partition the food mass in a first orientation and in a second orientation. The apparatus further includes a retainer positionable on a top surface of the food mass having passageways permitting the cutting members to pass through a portion thereof. The apparatus may include a cleaning plate receivable by portions of the holder in a position below the food mass, the cleaning plate being removable from the holder to remove food matter from between the support portions. The apparatus may include a lock for securing apparatus in a closed or lowest position for storage.

Abstract: A device and method of cutting soft food material. The cutting is performed by an arrangement of cutting wire or ribbon that is pulled taut across a supporting frame. The cuts are made while the food material is lightly compressed and confined in a press. The press consists of a compression chamber having a bottom surface. The cutter is placed at the bottom of the compression chamber. Food material is then placed into the compression chamber atop the cutter. A compression plate is placed over the food material. The compression plate is pressed down to compress the food material. The compression squeezes the food material and liberates any excess fluids that may be present within the food material. This conditions the food material. The cutter is then pulled through the conditioned food.

Abstract: An apparatus for partitioning a food mass, such as a solidified egg, is disclosed including a base, a holder for supporting the food mass, and a plurality of cutting members for partitioning the food mass, wherein the holder is rotatable to permit the cutting members to partition the food mass in a first orientation and in a second orientation. The apparatus further includes a retainer positionable on a top surface of the food mass having passageways permitting the cutting members to pass through a portion thereof. The apparatus may include a cleaning plate receivable by portions of the holder in a position below the food mass, the cleaning plate being removable from the holder to remove food matter from between the support portions. The apparatus may include a lock for securing apparatus in a closed or lowest position for storage.

Abstract: An apparatus for partitioning a food mass, such as a solidified egg, is disclosed including a base, a holder for supporting the food mass, and a plurality of cutting members for partitioning the food mass, wherein the holder is rotatable to permit the cutting members to partition the food mass in a first orientation and in a second orientation. The apparatus further includes a retainer positionable on a top surface of the food mass having passageways permitting the cutting members to pass through a portion thereof. The apparatus may include a cleaning plate receivable by portions of the holder in a position below the food mass, the cleaning plate being removable from the holder to remove food matter from between the support portions. The apparatus may include a lock for securing apparatus in a closed or lowest position for storage.

Abstract: An avocado slicer includes a frame having a proximal end and a distal end, and a plurality of slicing elements extending from the proximal end of the frame to the distal end of the frame. Each slicing element is substantially parallel to an adjacent slicing element.

Abstract: Devices for removing and/or slicing a meat of fruit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device has a handle portion and a working portion having an elongated blade and a pair of lateral extensions. The elongated blade has a cross-sectional shape adapted to facilitate movement of the elongated blade through the meat of the fruit. The working portion of the device has a resting configuration in which the elongated blade has a first radius of curvature, and at least one of the lateral extensions is manipulable under a manual force during use to deform the working portion from the resting configuration to a displaced configuration in which the elongated blade has a second radius of curvature, selectively conforming to the curvature of the skin before and as the elongated blade moves through the meat of the fruit.

Abstract: An avocado slicer having a handle, a curved blade, and a plurality of internal cutting blades. The blade separates the meat of the avocado from the peel while the internal cutting blades simultaneously slice the meat into separate slices. In a preferred form, the avocado slicer includes an adapter with an integrally formed internal handle, all constructed from plastic. The adapter includes internal ribs and channels configured to receive and firmly retain the base of the blade. A santoprene outer handle is over-molded onto the internal handle to provide a non-slip grip.

Abstract: A cake-layer cutting apparatus for allowing a user to slice layers of cake accurately and evenly. The cake-layer cutting apparatus includes a frame, which includes a first support, a second support and a handle portion that extends between the first support and the second support. The frame is designed to be passed over and along side the cake. The first support includes a first support slot that extends vertically through the first support. The second support includes a second support slot that extends vertically through the second support. A plurality of wires extend between the supports for cutting the cake as the cake is passed between the supports.

Abstract: An egg dicing board comprising of a rectangular framework having a crisscrossed grid welded onto the top of the framework. On the underside a number of projecting loops, which can be made of various sizes and shapes, stabilizes the egg dicing board over the rim of an open container. The board also provides a contoured handgrip for increased control. The egg to be diced is placed over the grid, and is forced through by applying downward pressure with the palm of a hand. The diced egg drops directly into a receptacle below and is ready for use.

Abstract: A multiblade cutting assembly including a plurality of blades and a blade support which is loaded as a simple beam. A plurality of parallel cutting blades are mounted by a first end on a frame and by a second end on a tension member. A pair of biasing members bear against the frame and simultaneously apply a tension force to the blades. Multiple cutting assemblies as described can be stacked with the blades of the respective cutting assemblies in close proximity for improved cutting.

Abstract: An egg cutter comprising a rectangular base plate which has webs running parallel to a first lateral edge and separated by gaps, the profile of which webs forms an elliptical depression in which to place an egg, and comprising a cutting frame which is pivotable about a second lateral edge, oriented perpendicularly to the first lateral edge, of the base plate and has parallel-tensioned wires aligned with the gaps between the webs, for cutting slices. The technical problem is to provide an egg cutter suitable both for cutting eggs into slices and for cutting them into pieces. A second cutting frame for cutting pieces is pivotable about an axis parallel to the second lateral edge and has cutting wires arranged in the shape of a star, and cross slots are provided in the webs of the base plate to correspond to the cutting wires. FIG. 1.

Abstract: A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and a frame mounted at one end of the handle. The frame has a cutter fastener portion and a handle fastening portion operably secured to the handle and extending away therefrom. A plurality of cutting elements are operably positioned on the frame. An elongated adjustment element extends through the handle and into the frame. A first end of the elongated adjustment element is secured to the plurality of cutting elements and a second end is secured to a rotatable adjustment knob. Fastening elements are slidably secured to the cutter fastener portion of the frame and to the handle fastening portion of the frame allowing the cutter fastening portion of the frame and the handle fastening portion of the frame to be adjusted in relationship to each other.

Abstract: A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and cutting rings are mounted at one end of the handle. The cutting rings including a pair of ring element operably secured to the handle and extending away therefrom. The pair of ring elements comprise an inner ring and outer ring formed from a continuous band. The inner ring has an elongated guide slot operably positioned therein, and the outer ring has an elongated guide slot operably positioned therein and in operably alignment with the elongated guide slot of the inner ring and extending therethrough. The inner ring includes a set element having a centrally positioned aperture therethrough and adapted for releasably securing and receiving the second end of the handle.

Abstract: A dicing device for potatoes and the like adapted to be rested upon the top edge of a pail and having cutting wire portions through which a soft boiled potato is first sliced into horizontally sliced layers while passing onto a grated area and thereafter pushing the sliced layers through grated meshed cutting wires of a horizontal portion to form diced cubes of the potato as they are delivered to the underlying pail. The device generally comprises a horizontal frame portion having mesh cutting wire lengths and a raised portion extending upwardly from the forward end of the horizontal portion with layer cutting wire lengths and through which the full potato is passed to deposit the sliced layers upon the horizontal mesh grating portion. All cutting wires are a solitary wire threaded between opposite sides and ends of the frame portions and wound upon a tightening screw.

Abstract: A clay cutter for simultaneously cutting a plurality of slabs of clay, including a frame including first and second opposing, longitudinally-extending side members. A plurality of cross wires are attached to and extend between the first and second side members in mutual parallel relation to each other. First and second springs extend along respective ones of the side members and are alternately retractable and uniformly extensible between a relatively short length and a relatively long length. The cross wires are attached by opposite ends to the springs and are moveable with the springs as the springs move between the relatively short length and the relatively long length to thereby decrease or increase uniformly the space between each of the cross wires.

Abstract: An egg slicer comprising upper and lower hinged arm which are arranged to be grasped in one hand by a user. The arms are hinged to one another at their near ends. The front end of the lower arm has a number of spaced but parallel cutter means for slicing a boiled egg forced past them while the upper arm has an enlarged presser member for trapping an egg placed in the cutter means and forcing the egg past the cutter means as the two arms are squeezed together. The upper arm has thumb receiving means for engaging a user's thumb while grasping the arms of the slicer in one hand so that, by raising the user's thumb, the presser member can be raised to allow a fresh egg to be placed in the cutter means, thereby enabling the egg slicer to be operated with one hand.

Abstract: A cheese cutter for reducing a block of cheese by cutting the block in three perpendicular directions, comprising a frame, a carriage mounted and moveable linearly within the frame, low adherence, chemically inert cheese support members mounted on such carriage, means for moving the carriage within the frame, a stationary cutter having a plurality of cutting wires mounted therein, such cutting wires extending across the area through which the carriage is moved; and a pivoting cutter having a plurality of cutting wires mounted therein, pivotal through the area of travel of the carriage, together with a quick replacement cutting wire mounting system and various safety devices.

Abstract: A slicing apparatus for foodstuffs comprising a baseboard with a groove extending transversely thereof; a bore extending into one end of the baseboard through and beyond the groove; a U-shaped bar having two legs and a central portion; the first leg of the U-shaped bar extending into the bore beyond the groove and having a slot located immediately below the groove; said leg being frictionally engaged in the bore to prevent lateral movement in said bore but being rotatable in the bore; the second leg of the U-shaped bar having a transverse hole, a handle with a spindle carried within the hole in the second leg of the U-shaped bar and an adjusting nut carried on the spindle having a transverse slot; a cutting element with enlarged end portions carried within the slots on the leg of the U-shaped bar and the adjusting nut so that when tightened the cutting element may be utilized to provide a slicing apparatus for foodstuffs, and including a passage in the baseboard near the juncture in the baseboard of the bore

Abstract: This device is a combination device, for slicing eggs, stick butter, soft cheeses and other foods, and it consists primarily of interchangeable cutting blades and food support members, the support members being slideable in the base of the device. It further consists of a pivotal frame secured to one end of the base, that has a provision for receiving different slicing or cutting blades, for adaptation to their respective food support members.

Abstract: An apparatus for slicing a cheesecake into a plurality of neatly cut pie-shaped slices of equal size. It includes a cutting cylinder having a plurality of tensioned cutting wires each extending diametrically across the lower end of the cylinder. The wires are tied at their one ends to retaining pins and at their other ends to guitar tuning peg assemblies at respective annularly spaced, equally distant locations about the cylinder. The cutting cylinder is attached with releasable latches beneath a similar size guide cylinder, in end to end relation. The cutting and guide cylinders are suspended from a U-shaped yoke with their common central axis extending vertically. The side edges of the yoke slidably engage respective vertical tracks which extend from a horizontal planar base. The cutting cylinder can be vertically reciprocated about its vertical axis into and out of close proximity with the base.

Abstract: A plurality of stainless steel wires or blades extend between cylindrical end elements on a spindle and may be stressed as desired to place them under tension. The wires or blades may be straight, that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the spindle or spiralled relative thereto, as desired. The device may be rotated by a conventional electric drill or if electrical power is not available, by a power take-off from any engine such as a stationary engine, marine engine, automobile engine or the like, via a flexible drive cable. The device scales fish with the minimum of damage to the fish and with relative safety to the operator.

Abstract: A dessert cutter particularly useful for delicate cakes with soft and moist composition. A frame supports a plurality of taut wires in a geometric relationship. The frame provides a grip for pressing the wires through a cake and a guide surface for visual alignment during the cutting application.

Abstract: An improved egg slicer is provided which comprises a lower member including a main body having a longitudinal channel therein and an elongated handle issuing from the main body. A cutter means is movably laterally mounted in the main body across a section through the channel therein in a slot provided therefor. The egg to be sliced is mounted in the channel overlying the cutter means. An upper linearly elongated member of the egg slicer has an end pivotally connected to a corresponding end of the lower member thereof. A pusher member registrable in the channel provided in the lower member is journalled in the upper member. The egg overlying the cutter means is forced therethrough by the pusher means as the upper member is pivoted towards the lower member of the slicer.