around rear support 16 and is pinned in place by two pins 3 as can be appreciated as well from fig5 it will also be appreciated that the actuator support 5 and the slicing base portion 10 may be of any shape so as to permit their releasable engagement to one another and that such releasable engagement or attachment may be made by any appropriate means such as pins hand screws a slot and groove arrangement magnets etc for instance the slicing base portion 10 may have vertical slots or grooves formed into it and the actuator support 5 may have correspondingly shaped extensions along its lateral sides adapted to fit into the slots or grooves to allow it to be removably placed in engagement therewith it will be appreciated that any other such equivalent arrangements are within the scope of the invention fig1 shows the device of the present invention in an open configuration with a food piece such as a potato 18 in position to be sliced the actuator 4 causes drive rod 7 bearing push block 6 to be reciprocally moved along line b the slicing apparatus may be operated by placing a food piece or other item to be sliced such as a vegetable i e a potato in the slicing field and closing the cover 1 closure of the cover 1 activates the pneumatic.