Household utensils

Claim 1

A cutting utensil for cutting vegetables, fruit and similar articles, comprising supporting means having a cavity therein and a single pair of cooperating guide grooves, the grooves of said pair being located in the opposite sides of said cavity, respectively, and opEning toward each other, a plurality of base plates, each having several upright cutting blades upstanding therefrom and having their lower portions anchored permanently in such base plate, the cutting blades permanently anchored in one base plate being of a length and spaced apart distances different from the lengths and spacings of the upright cutting blades permanently anchored in another base plate for cutting such vegetables, fruit or similar articles into pieces of different size, said base plates having flanges along their opposite edges for reception selectively in said respective grooves of said supporting means, horizontal blade means carried by said supporting means at the discharge side of the upright cutting blades of a base plate having its flanges received in the grooves of said supporting means and cooperating with such upright blades for severing from an article portions thereof already slit vertically by said upright blades, the flanges on different base plates being located differently, respectively, to dispose the different base plates at different elevations relative to said horizontal cutting blade means when their flanges are received in said grooves of said supporting means.