DE202022102706U1 - cheese slicer - Google Patents

Abstract

Cheese slicer with a fork-shaped body, which has a handle and two tines, between the ends of which a cutting wire can be tensioned by means of a tensioning element, characterized in that the fork-shaped body consists of a one-piece elastic wire loop (10) which includes both the handle (101, 102 , 103) as well as the tines (105, 106) and in which the clamping element (11) can be linearly displaced in the area of the handle without rotation, the displacement causing the tines (105, 106) to spread apart.

Description

The invention relates to a cheese cutter with a fork-shaped body, which has a handle and two prongs, between the ends of which a cutting wire can be tensioned by means of a tensioning element.

Cheese cutters of the type described are required for dividing small blocks of cheese into cube-shaped or disc-shaped pieces. For this purpose, the cutting wire with a small diameter is attached to the piece of cheese to be divided and pulled through the piece of cheese, as a result of which a desired piece is separated or divided.

In the DE 456 320 C a cheese cutter is described which has a holding rod on a handle, the free end of which is designed as a threaded rod. A wire is clamped between a washer on the handle and a nut fastened to said rod thread. The wire is tensioned by turning the nut towards the outer end. This cheese slicer is in the documents of the utility model DE 17 80 740 U stated that with such a cheese cutter, material to be cut can practically only be cut into slices of one and the same thickness, which corresponds to the distance between the cutting wire and the rod of the cheese cutter. In contrast, the innovation proposed in the publication mentioned is that the cutting wire of the cheese cutter is bent into a U-shape and is stretched with its legs on both sides of the rod, with the distance between the legs of the rod being different. By these measures, two different thickness settings can be used for slicing cheese.

However, both cheese cutters have the disadvantage that to tighten the wire, a nut has to be moved against the tension of the wire, which either leads to insufficient tension or to the disadvantage that the wire can only be tightened with external tools such as pliers or the like is possible.

The cleaning of such a cheese cutter is also complicated due to the large number of parts, especially since all parts have to be dismantled for complete cleaning.

In the documents of the utility model DE 19 68 264 U there is shown and described a cheese cutter which takes the form of a broad, handled fork with a cutting wire secured between the tines of the fork. The spine connecting the two tines, or in another embodiment a loosely rotatable roller arranged between the two tines, can be placed on the piece of cheese and the cutting wire can be pulled through it, the thickness of the severed slice depending on the inclination of the fork during the cutting process . With such cheese cutters, it is functionally essential that the cutting wire is clamped tightly between the tines. This is to be achieved in that at least one of the prongs is equipped with a tensioning device for tensioning the cutting wire, for which purpose tensioning screws mounted in the prongs are provided for fastening and for tensioning the cutting wire. The clamping screw or screws are loosely rotatably mounted in the tine or tines in parallel alignment with the cutting wire, the screw heads lying on the outside of the tines and the cutting wire ends each passing through a diametral bore or slot in the screw head. A counter nut is provided on the inside of the tine or tines to fix the clamping screw. The cutting wire can be tightened or loosened by turning the tightening screw.

A simply constructed cutting device for dividing large loaves of cheese using a cutting wire is in the DE 86 29 327 U described. With this cutter, the cutting wire forms a (slack) loop, both ends of which are fixed to a common handle.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a cheese cutter of the type mentioned at the outset that is simple in construction and easy to handle.

To solve this problem, a cheese slicer is proposed, which is characterized in that the fork-shaped body consists of a one-piece elastic wire loop, which forms both the handle and the tines and in which the clamping element in the area of the handle can be linearly displaced without rotation, whereby the displacement causes the tines to spread apart.

The basic idea of the present invention is that the clamping screw previously used in the prior art is replaced by a linearly displaceable body which directly moves apart the free prong ends to which the wire loop is attached in each case. The wire loop thus acts as a one-sided lever on the left and right, with the tensioning force being obtained essentially from the elasticity of the wire loop.

Further developments of the invention are described in the dependent claims. That's how it is Clamping element preferably consisting of a body with two trapezoidal parallel spaced surfaces, each forming an upper and lower surface, which are connected by four side surfaces, two of which side surfaces connecting the acutely converging edges of the upper and lower surfaces , Have a central longitudinal groove in which sections of the wire loop are guided. This concrete form of the clamping element can be easily removed from the cheese cutter for cleaning. As a rule, however, this clamping element will remain in the cheese cutter since it does not come into direct contact with the cheese to be cut.

According to a further embodiment of the invention, the wire loop consists of a bent round or flat wire, the part of which serving as a handle has a short base piece and two adjoining longitudinal pieces which converge towards one another at the end facing away from the base, on which V or Connect goblet-shaped prong areas, which are preferably simply bent.

The angle at which the pieces of the wire loop adjoining the base converge is preferably ≦10°.

• 1 und 2 jeweils Draufsichten auf einen Käseschneider und
• 3 eine Schnittansicht entlang der Linie A-A in 1.

The wire loop consists of a metal wire, whereas the tensioning element preferably consists of a plastic. The cutting wire can have a round cross-section or a flat profile. An embodiment is shown in the drawings. Show it:

• 1 and 2 respectively top views of a cheese cutter and
• 3 a sectional view along the line AA in 1 .

The cheese cutter consists of three parts, namely a wire loop 10, a tensioning element 11 and a cutting wire 12. The wire loop is mirror-symmetrical and has a handle with a base 101 and two opposite longitudinal pieces 102, 103, which converge slightly towards the end 104 of the handle running towards each other. This is followed in an angled form in each case by a tine 105, 106, at the ends 107, 108 of which said cutting wire is attached. 1 shows the clamping element 11 in the "released" position. By moving the tensioning element in the direction of arrow 109, the tensioning element is moved towards the end 104 and likewise drives the tines 105, 106 apart, as a result of which the cutting wire 12 is tensioned at the same time. The tensioning element 11 therefore only has to be moved linearly, which can be easily accomplished using a thumb or finger. To relax the cutting wire 12, the clamping element can be moved in the opposite direction. To guide the clamping element, the corresponding body has grooves 111 on opposite side surfaces, in which the longitudinal pieces 102 and 103 are guided. Surface 112 and the opposite spaced lower surface 113 are each trapezoidal. The distance between the upper and lower surface is small and how 3 demonstrates only so large that there is enough space for the groove 111. The clamping element is therefore a flat body with two lateral guides.

Reference List

10

wire loop

11

clamping element

12

cutting wire

101

Base

102, 103

longitudinal pieces

104

End

105, 106

tines

107, 108

ends of the tines

109

Arrow

111

grooves

112

upper surface

QUOTES INCLUDED IN DESCRIPTION

This list of the documents cited by the applicant was generated automatically and is included solely for the better information of the reader. The list is not part of the German patent or utility model application. The DPMA assumes no liability for any errors or omissions.

Patent Literature Cited

• DE 456320 C [0003]
• DE 1780740 U [0003]
• DE 1968264 U [0006]
• DE 8629327 U [0007]

Claims (5)

Cheese slicer with a fork-shaped body, which has a handle and two tines, between the ends of which a cutting wire can be tensioned by means of a tensioning element, characterized in that the fork-shaped body consists of a one-piece elastic wire loop (10) which includes both the handle (101, 102 , 103) as well as the tines (105, 106) and in which the clamping element (11) can be linearly displaced in the area of the handle without rotation, the displacement causing the tines (105, 106) to spread apart. cheese cutter claim 1 , characterized in that the tensioning element (11) is a body with two trapezoidal, parallel, spaced surfaces, each forming an upper (112) and a lower surface, which are connected to one another by four side surfaces, two of which side surfaces which are at an acute angle to one another to running edges of the upper (112) and the lower surface, have a central longitudinal groove (111) in which partial areas of the wire loop (102, 103) are guided. cheese cutter claim 1 or 2 , characterized in that the wire loop (10) consists of a bent round or flat wire, the part of which serving as a handle has a short base piece (101) and two adjoining longitudinal pieces (102, 103) which extend to that of the base (101 ) Ends facing away from each other converging, to which V-shaped or cup-shaped tines (105, 106) connect, which are preferably simply bent. Cheese cutter according to one of the claims 2 or 3 , characterized in that the angle at which the wire loops converge in the area of the handle is ≤ 10°. Cheese cutter according to one of the Claims 1 until 4 , characterized in that the clamping element (11) consists of plastic.

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