Decorative form hydraulic food product cutting blade assembly

Claim 1

In a system for the cutting of food products into decorative forms, having a product receiving tank adapted to be filled with a fluid medium, means to discharge said products into said tank, a food pump for withdrawing said medium and said products from said tank, a product feed line, said pump discharging said products into said product feed line, a tapered section in said feed line to separate, align, accelerate and feed said products into a cutter blade assembly, and means posterior to said cutter blade assembly, to discharge cut product, wherein the improvement comprises a cutter blade assembly having: a perimeter frame having an inner longitudinal passage of size and shape for the longitudinal passage of product and fluid medium there through at a speed of greater than 40 feet per second and less than 60 feet per second; a plurality of sequentially arranged strip knives disposed one after another within the longitudinal passageway of said perimeter frame for forming a single non-triangular, non-rectilinear, non-circular decoratively shaped food product core by segmenting said longitudinal passageway into a plurality of peripheral segments for the cutting of a food product passed therethrough said plurality of strip knives being of size and shape so as to define said peripheral segments of the longitudinal passageway which results in the cross sectional shape of the core having a single non-triangular, non-rectilinear, non-circular decorative shape.

Claim 3

The apparatus of claim No. 1 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a fish.

Claim 4

The apparatus of claim no. 1 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of an alphanumeric character.

Claim 5

The apparatus of claim no. 1 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a person.

Claim 6

The apparatus of claim no. 1 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of an animal.

Claim 7

The apparatus of claim no. 1 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a recognizable geometric form.

Claim 9

The apparatus of claim no. 7 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a fish.

Claim 10

The apparatus of claim no. 7 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of an alphanumeric character.

Claim 11

The apparatus of claim no. 7 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a person.

Claim 12

The apparatus of claim no. 7 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of an animal.

Claim 13

The apparatus of claim no. 7 wherein said plurality of strip knives define segments of the longitudinal passageway resulting in the core cut area defining the shape of a recognizable geometric form.