PROGRAMMABLE FOOD SLICER WITH DIGITAL SCALE CONTROL

• US 20190321996A1
• Filed: 04/24/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Andrew Crawford
• Original Assignee: Robert Andrew Crawford
• Inventors: Crawford, Robert Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 11,034,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 2007/0018 Trays, reservoirs for waste, chips or cut products
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 2210/02 for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/086 Electric, magnetic, piezoelectric, electro-magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 7/0616 by carriages, e.g. for slicing machines
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 7/30 for weighing cut product

Abstract

The present invention is an automatic food slicer with a built-in scale which allows the user to have the slicer automatically stop when a particular weight of food has been sliced.

Claims

1. An automatic electric food slicer comprising:

a) a digital scale having a platform positioned to catch food and weigh it as it is sliced by the automatic electric food slicer; and

b) a digital program in a resident memory of a memory device associated with the slicer and the scale set to enable a user to program a desired weight of food to be cut, wherein once the slicer is started to automatically slice, the slicer automatically stops when the desired weight of food measured on the scale is sliced.

2. The automatic electric food slicer according to claim 1 where the digital program further calculates how many slices it will take to reach the desired weight and stops the slicing when the next slice will cause the sliced food to exceed the desired weight.

3. The automatic slicer according to claim 1 which further comprises the digital program adjusting the thickness of a food slice such that the desired weight is achieved exactly.