Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/24—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain segments other than slices, e.g. cutting pies
  • B26D3/26—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain segments other than slices, e.g. cutting pies specially adapted for cutting fruit or vegetables, e.g. for onions
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
  • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
  • B26D7/0608—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form by pushers
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
  • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
  • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
  • B26D3/18—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain cubes or the like
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Definitions

• the invention relates to a garlic cutter according to the preamble of claim 1, but which can also be used as a cutter for other vegetables, e.g. Onions, can be used, as well as a stamp for use in such a garlic cutter.
• Known devices for chopping garlic are constructed in the manner of a press, the garlic being pressed through a perforated grid by means of a stamp. This essentially squeezes the vegetables by processing them into small sausages or flags through the holes provided. The garlic is cut less than pressed. Also relatively large parts get caught in the device without passing through the holes.
• an onion cutter is known in which an axially adjustable punch presses the onion through a star-shaped knife, whereby the onion is cut into many circular sectors. By means of a knife which can be inserted transversely thereto, these sectors are cut into individual pieces during a rotational movement.
• a similar onion cutter with cutting wires rotating with respect to the onion is known from DE-GM 1 750 135.
• a device for chopping onions, fruit or other goods which has a housing body which carries a knife on its underside and has an upper part which has a stamp attached to it which, in the operating state, rotates against it the housing body performs an axial movement against the rotating cutting grid.
• This axially adjustable The fruit is stamped or pushed through a rotating cutting grid, corresponding flags or sausages with a square cross section being formed on the exit side of the cutting grid. These parts are then crushed perpendicular to their longitudinal direction by the knife arranged behind the cutting grid, so that cubes of onions are formed.
• the cutting grid cuts the fruit into two dimensions, so that pens or chopsticks are created, which are later cut up into cubes by the knife.
• the stamp is designed so that its front has a shape corresponding to the two-dimensional cutting grid, namely consists of a plurality of pins which push the onion pieces through the cutting grid.
• the knife is fixed to the housing, while the punch and the cutting grid are rotatably mounted, preferably in such a way that they are both set in rotation by an operating part and generate an axial movement of the punch relative to the rotating cutting grid via the spindle.
• This device forms the preamble of claim 1.
• the disadvantage here is that after inserting the fruit, the lid has to be turned "empty" for a long time over the relatively fine thread until the stamp rests on the fruit. Only then does the actual cutting or pressing process begin. The upper part also has to be unscrewed for a long time to open.
• the proposed here consisting of a plurality of pins, stamp is difficult to clean.
• the object of the invention is to propose a garlic cutter or the like.
• Cutter for vegetables and a stamp for use in such a garlic cutter, according to the Filling works faster, the fruit is chopped gently and can also be quickly opened and cleaned.
• the garlic cutter according to the invention is characterized in that it contains an inner body receiving the garlic, which is rotatably mounted in the housing body, which contains the cutting grid and into which the punch carried by a spindle is immersed. Furthermore, in that it has means which provide for engagement of the spindle in the operating state and which allow longitudinal displacement of the spindle in an open state. All mechanisms are suitable as means, which can be brought into a loose position by clamping or in the manner of an engagement of a piece of counter thread to the spindle, such as snap elements made of plastic or metal. In a preferred embodiment, a type of union nut is provided which can be applied to the housing body and which, for example by twisting, brings elements to engage in the spindle or to let go of the spindle.
• the invention achieves that in operation the thread of the spindle presses the fruit gently but vigorously against the cutting grid when the upper part is turned, and that in the open state when e.g. B. the counter thread to the spindle no longer grips, the spindle can be quickly moved relative to the nut or ratcheted through the threaded spindle.
• the spindle can be attached to the lower part in any position.
• the spindle can be locked in any position with the help of the quick lock via the union nut, which means that the operating state for cutting the garlic is reached.
• the invention also significantly speeds up the opening of the garlic cutter.
• the user only has to loosen the union nut, preferably from its bayonet catch, whereby the thread is released from the spindle. Then the spindle together with the union nut can be pulled out.
• the knife is fixed on the underside of the housing to a bridge which is supported at opposite positions of the housing. It is advantageous that the knife does not extend beyond the center of the cutting grid, but something is narrower. Otherwise, the center would always be covered by the knife, so that the garlic sausages could jam on the knife or the tip of the knife, which could lead to a malfunction.
• the counter thread for the spindle is attached to or within the union nut. This is a simple variant and only requires a few individual parts.
• the union nut is preferably attached to the housing body by means of a bayonet catch.
• the housing body preferably has lugs which protrude over some areas of the circumference and leave the other areas of the circumference free. In this way, the union nut can simply be put on and locked in a manner known per se by a short turn, for example a quarter or third turn.
• Other locking mechanisms e.g. screwing on your own thread or plugging on correspondingly shaped counterparts are also possible.
• the counter thread is arranged inside the union nut on the inside of a snap ring, which is pressed against the spindle in the operating state and moves away from the latter in the opened state.
• the change of the "Operation” or “Opening” states is thus carried out automatically by turning the union nut on the lower part of the housing - preferably immediately when screwing it into the bayonet lock. Operating errors are avoided.
• a simple implementation of this embodiment can be carried out by arranging several, for example three, lugs on one of the parts, for example on the lower part, distributed over the circumference, which lugs are of increasing strength over their course, so that after the union nut is tightened, the snap ring glides over the inclined planes and is pressed inwards by the increasing thickness of the lugs and thus against the thread of the spindle becomes.
• these sliding surfaces can be formed on the projections of the bayonet locking pieces provided for holding the union nut.
• These projecting parts then perform two functions, namely holding and locking the union nut and pushing the snap ring together, the mating thread of which is pressed into the thread of the spindle and the operating state is thus achieved.
• the inner body rotating in the housing body can be easily removed for cleaning purposes.
• the inner body is preferably snapped into the housing body via latching elements and can be detached for cleaning by simply pressing on the cutting grid or its frame from below. So the user can easily take out the inner body and clean the cutting grid attached to it.
• the cutting grid can be easily removed from the inner body.
• the connection of both parts is e.g. via form-fitting pins which allow the two parts to snap together and be easily released. Cleaning the cutting grate is further simplified.
• the housing body can also be cleaned easily with the cutting knife.
• the knife holder with the knife can be designed to be removable from the housing body in order to facilitate the cleaning of the two parts.
• a simplest is the connection of the two parts by a bayonet lock, which is arranged so that in the operating state, the back pressure acting on the knife acts in a closed position of the knife holder. Since the garlic cutter, if it is designed for right-handers, has a right-hand thread, i.e. the upper part opposite the lower part is turned to the right to press the vegetables against the cutting grid, it is advisable to design this bayonet lock, which holds the knife holder on the housing holder, in such a way that it is opened by turning to the left and closed by turning to the right. This prevents accidental opening during cutting.
• the inner body rotates in operation relative to the housing body holding it.
• the entraining movement for rotating the inner body with the stamp can take place either in that the stamp has a non-circular cross-section and thus dips into a correspondingly shaped cavity in the inner body, or else, which is a preferred embodiment that guide grooves for the stamp are arranged in the inner body , while guide lugs are provided on the punch, which engage in these grooves.
• guide grooves for the stamp are arranged in the inner body
• guide lugs are provided on the punch, which engage in these grooves.
• the upper part of the garlic cutter has an end stop which prevents further rotation in the working position when the punch has already reached the bottom of the cutting grid.
• an end stop prevents further rotation in the working position when the punch has already reached the bottom of the cutting grid.
• Such an end stop prevents the upper part from rotating further with respect to the lower part or with respect to the union nut.
• two plastic grooves are provided on the inside of the upper part, which interact with corresponding pins or ridges on the top of the union nut and prevent further rotation, in order to protect the stamp.
• the end stop on the upper part can also be designed such that it takes the union nut with it when it is unscrewed, for example by a quarter turn, of the fully screwed-in punch and thus opens it. This makes opening the device considerably easier.
• the upper part for example via the cams or projections, which also act as an end stop to prevent the penetration being too deep, a movement is simultaneously carried out on the union nut, so that the entire upper part, ie union nut plus upper part, is removed after about a quarter turn can be.
• the advantage of this variant is that only a turning of the handle part is necessary to open it and no more turning of the union nut.
• stamp which pushes the clove of garlic through the knife.
• This stamp has a multiplicity of pins which can extend into the openings of the separating grid and are preferably flat at the front, as well as a front plate which resiliently sits on the stamp and covers the pins, so that the plate together with the front faces of the pin form a closed stamp surface forms.
• the front plate preferably contains as many holes as the stamp has pins. A single pin extends through each of the holes. An essentially smooth surface is formed in the starting position or until the end of the feed movement of the punch against the cutting grid.
• the stamping plate is pushed up to the cutting grid, the pins are pushed through the holes in the plate during a further feeding movement and reach through the cutting grid in order to push the garlic completely through the cutting grid.
• the closed stamp surface on the one hand ensures that the garlic is completely crushed by largely avoiding that garlic residues remain in any cavities, and on the other hand ensures that the smooth stamp surface can be cleaned particularly quickly when cleaning.
• FIG. 1 shows an overall view of an embodiment of a garlic cutter according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a sectional view through the embodiment of FIG. 1,
• Figure 2a is a perspective view of part of the
• FIG. 3 shows the embodiment of FIG. 1 in the open state
• FIG. 4 shows a detailed picture of FIG. 3
• FIG. 5 shows a stamp and a cutting grid of the garlic cutter in detail
• Figure 6a a view from below of an inventive
• FIG. 6b shows a detailed image of the single line H according to FIG. 6, 10
• FIG. 8 shows a detail from FIG. 2.
• the garlic cutter according to FIG. 1 has a grip part 1, on which some recessed grips are formed, so that the torque applied by hand can be better introduced.
• the handle part 1 sits on the upper part 2 and is rotatable relative to the housing body 6.
• the union nut 3 is fastened to the housing body 6 at the top.
• the housing body 6 merges into the knife holder 9 below. This is widened to form an enlarged footprint.
• the union nut 3 also has a corrugation with troughs in order to ensure easier handling.
• Figure 2 shows a section of the internal structure of the garlic cutter.
• the lower part of the device is essentially formed by the housing body 6, which has the widened knife holder 9 at the bottom as a base and on which the union nut 3 is screwed on.
• the inner body 7 is rotatably mounted on a metal ring (not shown separately) as a sliding element.
• the cutting grid 5b is fastened to the frame 5a and also rotates when the stamp 12 rotates.
• the knife holder 9 with the knife 8 is fixed relative to the housing body 6.
• a snap ring 10 is arranged in the union nut 3 and is in turn held by the retaining ring 11 within the union nut 3. 1 1
• Figure 2 shows the garlic cutter according to the invention in the open state, i.e. the union nut 3 is placed on the housing body 6, but not yet locked. Therefore, the snap ring 10 is still open and with its inside, which carries part of a counter thread, is not yet pressed against the thread of the spindle 4. In this position, the upper part 2 can be pulled through the spring ring 10 without intervening.
• the operating state is achieved in that the union nut 3 is locked, that is to say rotated against the housing body 6, as a result of which the snap ring 10 is compressed and its thread 10a comes into engagement with the thread of the spindle 4.
• the spindle 4 slowly screws down against the snap ring 10 and presses the garlic, which is located below the punch 12 and above the cutting grid 5b, through the cutting grid 5b. This creates fine garlic sticks in the cutting grid 5b, which are cut into no cuboids when the cutting grid 5b is rotated by the knife 8.
• the union nut 3 is rotated again by a short amount of angle, whereby the snap ring 10 is released, the thread 10a no longer engages in the thread of the spindle 4 and the spindle 4 is simply pulled out of the lower part or housing body 6 can be.
• the union nut 3 is preferably held captively on the spindle 4 between the handle 1 and the punch 12.
• Figure 3 shows the garlic cutter in the open state. It can be seen that the upper part 2 consists of the handle 1, the upper part 2 with spindle 4 and punch 12, the union nut 3 lying loosely over the spindle 4, but does not engage in it. In the lower part, the housing body 6, the inner body 7 with guide grooves 7a and the cutting grid 5b can be seen. Likewise, the knife holder 9. In the upper part 2, the end stop 2a can be seen in the sectional view, which, when that 12
• the stamp 12 has a multiplicity of pins 13, to which a plate 12b is assigned, which contains as many holes as there are pins 13.
• the plate 12b is fastened to the stamp 12 by means of four brackets 12a.
• springs 12c which push the plate 12b away from the stamp 12. Only when the plate 12b strikes the cutting grid 5b (not shown here) at the end of the pressing process is the plate 12b stopped by the grid and pushed against the punch 12.
• the springs 12c compress, the pins 12 begin to protrude beyond the plate 12b. They reach through the openings of the cutting grid 5b and thus also push the last garlic remnants through the grid against the rotating knife 8. In this final pressed state, the hooks 12a on the top are lifted off the punch 12. The user opens the
• Figure 5 shows this embodiment of the stamp according to the invention again in a plan view. You can see that again 13
• the plate 12b is fastened to the punch 12 with the clips 12a and is supported by the springs, not shown here, of which e.g. sit five over five pins 13, pressed down. It can be seen that the number of holes in the cutting grid 5b corresponds to the number of pins 13.
• Figure 6a shows a view from below of the closed garlic cutter.
• the knife holder 9 can be seen, which is placed on the housing body 6 by means of a bayonet lock (here left turn for opening).
• the knife holder 9 carries a web which is arranged slightly outside the center of the device and which carries the knife 8 over approximately half its length. This knife 8 is stationary during operation, while the cutting grid 5b with the punch 12 rotates over the knife 8 during operation.
• the pins 13, the plate 12b and the frame 5a for the cutting grid 5b can be seen.
• FIG. 6b shows a detailed image of the device shown above, again showing both the knife 8 and the cutting grid 5b. Likewise, the pins 13 and the plate 12 b.
• FIGS. 7a and 7b show two sections through the device according to the invention at the level of the union nut 3.
• the upper drawing 7a shows the union nut 3 in the operating state.
• the union nut 3 is locked with the bayonet catch on the housing body 6, from which the lugs 6a can be seen. These are formed with increasing thickness, so that when the union nut 3 is rotated against the housing body 6, the lugs 6a act on correspondingly arranged pins of the snap ring 10 and press it inwards against the spindle 4.
• the thread 10 a engages in the thread of the spindle 4 and, when rotated, leads to an axial up and down movement of the punch 12. 14
• the partial picture 7b shows the union nut 3 in the released state (opening state).
• the lugs 6a no longer press on the corresponding projections of the snap ring 10. This is due to its inherent elasticity and no longer presses its thread 10a into the thread of the spindle 4.
• the spindle 4 can thus be pulled out of the lower part of the garlic cutter or easily inserted.
• FIG. 8 finally shows a detail from FIG. 3, namely in a lateral section the engagement of the thread 10a in the thread of the spindle 4 when the snap ring 10 is pressed against the spindle 4 by forces acting inwards, that is to say when it is in the operating position located.

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