Claims
- 1. A fruit segmenter comprising:
- pivoting lever means for slicing a fruit;
- ratchet means for step by step rotational arcuate indexing of said fruit;
- said pivoting lever means including a slicing lever;
- a blade located and adjustably positioned on said slicing lever;
- said ratchet means includes a crank lever; and said pivoting lever means rotating and contacting said crank lever and indexing said ratchet means;
- whereby said pivoting lever means slices said fruit and then indexes said fruit by a set arcuate step to be ready for slicing again.
- 2. A fruit segmenter comprising:
- a frame holding a mechanism;
- said mechanism including lever means and ratchet means;
- said frame including wall means for supporting said lever means and base means for supporting said ratchet means;
- said lever means including a crank lever and a slicing lever;
- a blade centrally located and adjustably positioned on said slicing lever;
- said crank lever driven by said slicing lever; and
- said ratchet means driven by said crank lever for rotatably indexing a cup for holding a piece of fruit to allow said blade synchronously, before and after said indexing, to slice said fruit.
- 3. Said fruit sections of claim 2 wherein:
- said slicing lever is bifurcated.
- 4. Said fruit segmenter of claim 3 further comprising:
- said slicing lever pivotablY connected through linkage to said wall means.
- 5. Said fruit segmenter of claim 4 wherein:
- said linkage comprises two levers pivotably connected to said wall means and pivotably connected to said slicing lever.
- 6. Said fruit segmenter of claim 5 wherein:
- said crank lever is resiliently biased toward one orientation and includes a tooth element also resiliently biased toward one orientation on said crank lever.
- 7. Said fruit segmenter of claim 6 wherein:
- said ratchet means includes a ratchet wheel in engagement with said toothed element and a pawl, both to effect motion of said ratchet wheel in one rotational direction.
- 8. The fruit segmenter of claim 7 wherein:
- "0" rings resiliently bias said crank lever and said toothed element.
- 9. The fruit segmenter of claim 8 wherein:
- said crank lever has "L" shaped configuration with a vertical portion and a horizontal portion with said toothed element slidably disposed on the horizontal portion.
- 10. The fruit segmenter of claim 3 wherein:
- said blade is adjustably positioned on said slicing lever by a rack and pinion.
- 11. The fruit segmenter of claim 3 wherein:
- said wall means also supports bore means for holding a readily available corer for said fruit sectioner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This present application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 070,328 filed Jul. 6, 1987, now abandoned.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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