Power operated cutting knife

Claim 1

A POWER OPERATED CUTTING KNIFE, SAID KNIFE INCLUDING A PAIR OF ELONGATED CUTTING BLADES, A HOUSING, AN ELECTRIC MOTOR, MEANS SELECTIVELY ENERGIZING SAID MOTOR, A PAIR OF MEMBERS RECEIVING AND HOLDING THE BLADES, AND MEANS DRIVEN BY SAID MOTOR RELATIVELY COUNTER-RECIPROCATING THE RECEIVING MEMBERS AND THUS THE CUTTING BLADES ALONG A COMMON AXIS, SAID BLADES EACH HAVING A FLAT INNER SIDE FACE, AN OUTER SIDE FACE, SAID INNER SIDE FACES LYING IN A COMMON PLANE AND BEING HELD IN SLIDING CONTACT BY THE RECEIVING MEMBERS, AN ELONGATED CUTTING EDGE CONTINUOUS ALONG THE LENGTH OF EACH BLADE, THE CUTTING EDGES OF THE BLADES BEING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT ONE ANOTHER, EACH CUTTING EDGE BEING A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE OTHER AND EACH INCLUDING A SERIES OF UNIFORMLY SPACED LIKE FIXED SHARP PEAKED CUTTING TEETH AND SHARP ALIGNED REACHES BETWEEN EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT TEETH, SAID REACHES HAVING THEIR RESPECTIVE MAJOR SEGMENTS LYING ALONG A COMMON LINE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE COMMON AXIS, AND CUTTING EDGE BEVELS ON THE REACHES AND TEETH, SAID BEVELS BEING LOCATED ONLY ON THE OUTER SIDE FACES OF THE BLADES, THE BEVELS OF THE CUTTING EDGES SLOPING TOWARDS THE COMMON PLANE.