JP3234356U - Cutter for solid dairy products - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutter for a solid dairy product for cutting a solid dairy product such as butter or cheese into a rectangular parallelepiped shape having a predetermined size. SOLUTION: A first blade plate portion 4 and a second blade plate portion 5 for cutting a corner portion of a solid dairy product into an L shape are provided at the lower end of a handle portion 3, and a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped cut piece cut and separated is cut into a double-edged plate. It is configured to be held in the holding space 6 between the portions, and an ejector 11 facing the holding space is provided at the lower end of the slidable slider 2 along the handle portion 3, and the slider is slid downward. , The ejector is configured to enter the inside of the holding space. [Selection diagram] Fig. 4

Description

The present invention relates to a cutter for solid dairy products for cutting solid dairy products such as butter and cheese into a rectangular parallelepiped shape having predetermined dimensions.

For example, butter is sold in small pieces in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, or in the form of a large block. Therefore, in the latter case, the user generally cuts a predetermined amount of butter from the block by using a butter knife and smears it on foodstuffs such as toast and bread to eat at home.

In this regard, when cutting a predetermined amount of butter from block-shaped butter, it is desirable to provide a cutter capable of cutting a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped piece similar to butter sold in small portions, but it has not been provided yet. Is the current situation.

Jikkenhei 7-33592

Patent Document 1 describes a tofu cutter in which the first blade plate portion and the second blade plate portion are arranged in an L shape, and the double blade plate portions are cut into an L shape by biting into the corner portion of the tofu to form a rectangular parallelepiped shape. We are proposing a structure that cuts and separates the cut pieces of.

Therefore, the cutter of Patent Document 1 that cuts and separates small pieces of a desired size from the tofu in the block form can be made into the desired size from the butter in the block form by the same method if this is applied as a cutter for butter. It is possible to provide a cutter for cutting and separating a rectangular parallelepiped cut piece.

However, according to the present inventor, when the tofu cutter is simply used as the butter cutter, the cut pieces of the cut butter adhere to the first blade plate portion and the second blade plate portion. However, there is a problem that it cannot be easily separated from the blade plate portion, and there are various other problems.

The present invention provides a cutter for dairy products that solves the above problems.

Therefore, what the present invention has constructed as a means is a cutter that cuts out a corner portion where the first side surface and the second side surface intersect in a solid dairy product, and is parallel to the first side surface and the second side surface at the lower end of the handle portion, respectively. A rectangular parallelepiped that is cut and separated by providing a first blade plate portion and a second blade plate portion, forming a holding space between the double blade plate portions, and cutting the double blade plate portion into the corner portion to form an L shape. The cut piece having a shape is configured to be held in the holding space, and the handle portion is provided with a slidable slider along the handle portion, and an ejector facing the holding space is provided at the lower end of the slider. The point is that the ejector is configured to enter the inside of the holding space by sliding the slider downward.

In a preferred embodiment, the handle portion forms a charging passage extending in the vertical direction, and the slider is slidably loaded in the charging passage, and the slider is slid upward to obtain the above. Regarding the retracted posture in which the ejector faces the holding space and the extrusion posture in which the ejector is brought into the holding space by sliding the slider downward, the handle portion and the slider are mutually set to the retracted posture. A holding means for holding the slider and a stopper means for preventing the slider in the extruded posture from moving downward are provided.

It is preferable that at least one of the first blade plate portion and the second blade plate portion constitutes a trowel having a corrugated side edge portion.

According to the present invention, the corner portion of the solid dairy product D such as butter is cut into an L shape by the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5, and separated as a rectangular parallelepiped cut piece Dd easily and easily. be able to. Then, the cut piece Dd is moved to the surface of foodstuffs such as toast and bread while being held in the holding space 6 between the double-edged plates, and then the slider 2 is simply slid from the storage posture P1 to the extrusion posture P2. There is an effect that the cut piece Dd can be suitably dropped toward the surface of the food material by the one-touch work of.

Regarding the cutter according to the embodiment of the present invention, (A) is a perspective view in a state where the slider is in the retracted posture, (B) is a perspective view in a state where the slider is in the extruded posture, and (C) is a sectional view taken along the line AA. be. It is a perspective view which shows the disassembled state of a handle part and a slider from the front side. It is a perspective view which shows the disassembled state of a handle part and a slider from the back side. It is a perspective view which shows the state which the 1st blade plate part and the 2nd blade plate part of the cutter bite into the corner part of butter with respect to the action. It is a perspective view which shows the state which lifted the cutter with the cut piece separated by cutting of butter attached to the 1st blade plate part and the 2nd blade plate part. It is a perspective view which shows the state which the cut piece was dropped by an ejector by the sliding of a slider. It is a perspective view which shows the use example of the trowel which was formed by the 1st blade plate part with respect to the action.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The cutter of the present invention is used to cut out the corner portion of a block-shaped or lump-shaped solid dairy product having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the solid dairy product includes butter, cheese, etc. , Butter will be described as an example.

As shown in the figure, the cutter is configured by combining and joining a cutter body 1 and a slider 2 each formed of plastic.

The cutter main body 1 is provided with a first blade plate portion 4 and a second blade plate portion 5 arranged in an L shape at the lower end of the handle portion 3.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the corner portion of butter D cut by the cutter has a first side surface d1 along the X direction and a second side surface d2 along the Y direction with respect to the X and Y directions orthogonal to each other. Are crossed.

Therefore, the first blade plate portion 4 is arranged in the X direction, that is, parallel to the first side surface d1, and the second blade plate portion 5 is arranged in the Y direction, that is, parallel to the second side surface d2. A holding space 6 is formed between the double-edged plate portions 4 and 5.

It is preferable that the first blade plate portion 4 is provided with scales 7 at a plurality of locations (three locations in the figure) separated from the second blade plate portion 6 in the X direction. Further, at least one of the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5, in the case of the illustrated embodiment, the first blade plate portion 4 is provided with a corrugated edge 8 having a corrugated side edge portion, whereby a trowel ( It is preferable to configure the trowel) 9.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the slider 2 is slidably loaded into a charging passage 10 extending in the vertical direction (longitudinal direction) of the handle portion 3 of the cutter body 1, and the holding space 6 is at the lower end. An ejector 11 facing the above is provided. At this time, the ejector 11 is preferably formed in a plate shape as shown in the drawing, and when the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5 bite into the corner portion of butter B as described later. , It is preferable to have a wide plate surface that comes into surface contact with the surface of the corner portion.

The slider 2 and the ejector 11 are in a state in which the slider 2 is slid upward so that the ejector 11 faces the holding space 6 (see FIG. 1 (A)) as the retracted posture P1, and the slider 2 is slid downward. The state in which the ejector 11 is brought into the holding space 6 (see FIG. 1B) is defined as the extrusion posture P2.

The charging passage 10 is formed between a pair of long plate portions 3a and 3a constituting the handle 3, and the upper ends of the long plate portions 3a and 3a are connected to each other. As a result, the upper end of the charging passage 10 is closed, and the lower end is opened so as to communicate with the holding space 6.

An erection plate 12 that connects the long plate portions 3a and 3a from the back side is provided at an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction, and the charging passage 10 is located at the front side of the erection plate 12 in the vertical direction. It is extended, and a protrusion 14 is provided on the front side of the erection plate 12 so as to face the facing surfaces of the long plate portions 3a and 3a and form the stopper means 13.

On both sides of the charging passage 10, that is, on the facing surfaces of the long plate portions 3a and 3a, an upper rib 15a located above the erection plate 12 and a lower rib 15b located below are provided. A recess 17 forming the holding means 16 is formed in the vicinity of the lower end of the lower rib 15b.

On the other hand, the slider 2 is provided with an upper claw portion 18a that is slidably locked to the upper rib 15a and a lower claw portion 18b that is slidably locked to the lower rib 15b. Further, a protrusion 19 is provided to form the holding means 16 by being fitted into the recess 17 when the storage posture is P1.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the upper claw portion 18a and the lower claw portion 18b face the upper rib 15a and the lower rib 15b, respectively, from the state where the handle portion 3 and the slider 2 of the cutter body 1 are separated. When the slider 2 is pushed into the front side of the charging passage 10, the upper claw portion 18a and the lower claw portion 18b are locked at a position where they get over the upper rib 15a and the lower rib 15b via bending deformation. As a result, the slider 2 is slidably held in the loading passage 10 in the vertical direction.

At this time, the finger hook portion 2a projecting from the front side of the portion near the upper end of the slider 2 projects to the front side of the handle portion 3.

When the slider 2 is in the retracted posture P1 (state of FIG. 1A), the protrusion 19 is fitted into the recess 17 with a click feeling to form the holding means 16, and the slider 2 is lowered by its own weight. Hold it so that it does not move.

When the slider 2 is in the extrusion posture P2 (state of FIG. 1B), the stopper means 13 is configured by engaging the upper claw portion 18a with the protrusion 14 of the erection plate 12 to prevent the slider 2 from moving downward. do.

The action of cutting the corner portion of butter D by the cutter configured as described above is shown in FIGS. 4 to 7.

As shown in FIG. 4, the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5 face parallel to the first side surface d1 and the second side surface d2, respectively, from above the corner portion of the butter D, and the handle portion 3 is placed. By grasping and moving it downward, it bites into the corner part. At this time, the size of the small piece to be cut can be adjusted by positioning the desired scale 7 so as to face the second side surface d2.

The corner portion of butter D is cut into an L shape by the bite of the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5, and the cut piece Dd having a rectangular parallelepiped shape separated by cutting is held in the holding space 6, so that FIG. As shown in the above, when the cutter is lifted while the handle portion 3 is gripped, the cut piece Dd is continuously lifted while being attached to the first blade plate portion 4 and the second blade plate portion 5.

Therefore, when the cut piece Dd attached by moving the cutter is brought to face a desired part of the food material, for example, the surface of the food material such as toast or bread, and the slider 2 is slid toward the extrusion posture P2, the cut piece Dd is released. , It falls from the holding space 6 by being pushed by the ejector 11, and is placed on a desired place.

The cut piece Dd placed on the desired portion of the food material can be spread on the surface of the food material while being stretched by the trowel 9 formed by the first blade plate portion 4 while holding the handle portion 3. can.

D butter (solid dairy product)
d1 1st side surface d2 2nd side surface 1 Cutter body 2 Slider 2a Finger hook part 3 Handle part 3a Long plate part 4 1st blade plate part 5 2nd blade plate part 6 Holding space 7 Scale 8 Corrugated edge 9 Trowel (trowel)
10 Insertion passage 11 Ejector 12 Elevating plate 13 Stopper means 14 Protrusion 15a Upper rib 15b Lower rib 16 Holding means 17 Recess 18a Upper claw 18b Lower claw 19 Protrusion

Claims (3)

It is a cutter that cuts out the corner part where the first side surface and the second side surface intersect in the solid dairy product, and at the lower end of the handle part (3), there is a first blade plate part (4) parallel to the first side surface and the second side surface, respectively. A rectangular parallelepiped that is cut and separated by providing a second blade plate portion (5), forming a holding space (6) between the double-edged plate portions, and cutting the double-edged plate portion into the corner portion to form an L shape. It is configured to hold the cut piece (Dd) of the shape in the holding space (6).
The handle portion (3) is provided with a slidable slider (2) along the handle portion, and an ejector (11) facing the holding space is provided at the lower end of the slider so that the slider faces downward. A cutter for solid dairy products, which is configured to allow the ejector to enter the inside of the holding space by sliding. The handle portion (3) forms a charging passage (10) extending in the vertical direction, and the slider (2) is slidably loaded in the charging passage.
A retracted posture (P1) in which the ejector faces the holding space by sliding the slider upward, and an extrusion posture (P2) in which the ejector is brought into the holding space by sliding the slider downward. Regarding
The holding means (16) for holding the slider in the retracted posture (P1) and the downward movement of the slider in the extruded posture (P2) are prevented from each other between the handle portion (3) and the slider (2). The cutter for solid dairy products according to claim 1, wherein the stopper means (13) is provided. The invention according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least one of the first blade plate portion (4) and the second blade plate portion (5) constitutes a trowel (9) having a corrugated side edge portion. Cutter for solid dairy products.

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