US Patent Issued to PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Blade assembly and counterweight mechanism for a high-speed food slicing apparatus, and methods associated with the same" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,021, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Chicago).

"Blade assembly and counterweight mechanism for a high-speed food slicing apparatus, and methods associated with the same" was invented by Ryan Michael Torrenga (Bourbonnais, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food slicing system includes a hub fixedly secured to a drive shaft and configured to rotate with the drive shaft. The hub has a central pilot projection coaxial with the drive shaft, and flat, blade contacting surface surrounding the pilot projection. A counterweight is eccentrically mounted to the hub and rotatable between a first position and an...