Food cutting apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cutting rolled food products like sushi and gimbap poses risks of finger injury and damage to the food's shape due to the fragility of the edible skins and the unpredictability of knife cuts.
Innovation Solution
A food cutting apparatus with adjustable vertical guide panels and cutting slots, accompanied by guide shafts and cutting boards, ensures safe and precise cutting by guiding the knife through the slots, preventing finger injury and maintaining food shape integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a knife is used to cut rolled food products, then the food can be divided into pieces, but the user's fingers may be accidentally cut or injured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces guide panels with cutting slots as an intermediary between the knife and the user's fingers. The knife is guided through predetermined slots in the guide panels, which constrains the cutting path and prevents the knife from accidentally contacting the user's fingers. This intermediary structure enables safe cutting while maintaining efficiency.
2Productivity
If a knife is used to cut rolled food products, then the food can be divided into pieces, but the shape of the sliced food may be damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The guide panels with precisely formed cutting slots serve as an intermediary that guides the knife along a predetermined path. This ensures that the knife cuts through the food at the correct positions and angles, maintaining the shape integrity of the sliced food while enabling efficient cutting operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide panels are pre-configured with cutting slots at specific positions and orientations before the cutting operation begins. This preliminary arrangement of the cutting path ensures that when the knife is inserted and pushed through, it automatically follows the correct trajectory to produce uniformly shaped slices without damaging the food.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If the guide panels are made of durable material to extend device lifespan, then the cutting slots resist tearing and wearing, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide panels are constructed from composite materials that combine durability with ease of manufacturing. This allows the cutting slots to resist tearing and wearing over extended use, extending the device lifespan, while the composite nature of the material keeps the manufacturing process and overall structure relatively simple.
Data Source
AI summary
A food cutting apparatus includes first and second guide panels spaced apart from each other at a preset distance, the first and second guide panels each having a plurality of cutting slots formed downwardly at regular interval, defining a plurality of cutting guide paths to guide a cutting knife there-through to cut food products placed between the guide panels into pieces; a cutting board placed between the first and second guide panels, the cutting board having a predetermined width configured to preset the distance of the first and second guide panels by abutting the first and second guide panels against two opposing side faces of the cutting board placed there-between, thereby, enabling the user to slice the placed food products into multiple pieces using a cutting knife introduced to the plural pairs of corresponding cutting slots of the first and second guide panels; and first and second guide posts coupled perpendicularly to the first and second guide so as to guide and position the first and second guide panels at the preset distance there-between. Multiple cutting boards of different widths can be provided to place and cut different amount or rolls of the food products.