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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141920 | Gripper A gripper includes a housing defining an interior area and having a work surface, the work surface defining an opening to the interior area. The gripper includes a pair of outer stationary plates in the interior area that are fixed to the housing, each having a plur... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8104807 | Pneumatic needle gripper The invention concerns a pneumatic needle gripper that comprises two due slides (33) on board a gripper body (10) each carrying at least one pair of needle grippers (36). The needles on a slide are facing towards the needles on the other slide, ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8061746 | Mango holder A mango fruit holder consists of a sharpened pair of tines extending from a grip handle. A pommel is located in the handle at the end opposite the tines, with a pair of tangs extending from and forming part of the tines through the handle into abutment with the pomm... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8042850 | Flexible skewer system for supporting food during cooking A flexible skewer system for providing versatile cooking upon a grill. The flexible skewer system includes an elongated flexible member, a loop extending from an end of the flexible member and a piercing implement extending from an opposite end of the flexible membe... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7401409 | Seasoning stick and method and apparatus for preparing foods A solid seasoning product in the form of a stick, rod, thread, band or ribbon from 20 mils to 250 mils thick and having a geometry as a shaped mass that enables the product to be inserted into food comprising meat or poultry prior to heating to prepare the food. The... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7347276 | Adjustable garden tool A manual garden tool having an elongate shaft with an actuator rotatably mounted at its lower end, tine(s) mounted to the actuator, and a cam surface at the lower end of the shaft in contact with a surface of each tine such that, as the actuator is rotated between t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7313881 | Pneumatic launcher system and method for operating same A pneumatic launcher has a plenum chamber section, an intermediate chamber section and a launch tube section connected together in a generally linear arrangement. The plenum chamber section defines a plenum chamber that has a closed end and an open end. The intermed... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314095 | Gardening tool A gardening tool extracts a weed along with a plug of soil. A plurality of blades are circumferentially spaced about an axis of a shaft and extend downwardly beyond the lower end of the shaft for insertion into soil about the roots. Each blade includes a trailing ed... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7258053 | Hot dog slicer A food slicer 10 of the present invention contains a hollow body 12 having an inner wall 13 defining an interior 17 and an outer wall 15 for containment of a food product therein. A plurality of blades 32 extends across the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243888 | System and apparatus for mounting a taxidermy trophy A system for mounting taxidermy animal trophies on mounting devices comprises a support platform having a rod protruding therefrom. The rod is a ribbed member having a large plurality of features for securing an animal mount, such as a skull, thereto. For example, t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7225927 | Cup holder having frusto-conical cavities A cupholder for holding containers is provided with a number of container-holding cavities. Each of the container-holding cavities includes pairs of gripping flanges that extend inwardly toward centers of the cavities. The flanges include gripping points that extend... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219936 | Campfire rotisserie A hand held rotatable campfire rotisserie. The device features the ability to rotate the tined end from the handle end internally. The length of the overall device allows the user to roast items placed over a heat source at a comfortable distance from the heat sourc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7174590 | Handheld multi-tool A multi-tool includes a handle having a blade that is rotatable between open and closed positions by at least one blade rotation member mounted on the side of the handle. The blade includes two locking recesses adapted to receive a locking member mounted to a cantil... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7125060 | Handle and handle set for collecting and transporting a load in a tarpaulin Four identical handles for manipulating a tarpaulin with grommets in the four corners to collect and transport a load. Each handle has a handgrip with a hook on each end, a staking member, and an attachment system to hold a grommeted corner of the tarpaulin. The hoo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121356 | Tools and methods for retrieving buried coins and other treasure A “sod saver” tool for digging to acquire an object buried in the ground, and a non-metallic scraping tool utilized when carefully examining the soil. The sod saver tool includes a main cylindrical body rotated about its longitudinal axis for digging a substanti... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118146 | Skewer A cooking skewer assembly comprising an elongate shaft (15) having a free end and an opposite end and a handle assembly (30) slidable along the shaft (15) from the free end to the opposite end. The handle assembly (30) comprising a grip (... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117954 | Weed puller A weed puller that comprises a plurality of prongs positioned about an axis, an anvil plate, and a moveable mass adapted to be driven into the anvil plate so as to transmit a force through the anvil plate to the prongs where the force has a substantial component in ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104577 | Barbecue skewer and method A barbecue skewer with a protector/extractor for extracting food from the skewer and preventing injuries and contamination of the skewer. The protector/guard is a generally cylindrical member which is slidably mounted on a shank of the skewer and is selectively mova... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7052059 | Fruit skewer A fruit skewer having an elongated central shaft for receiving and securing fruit, food or non-food items thereon for display or cooking. The portion of the shaft upon which the fruit or other item is to be situated has a cross-sectional area designed to prevent the... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6971696 | Hay bale spike assembly A lift truck assembly for impaling, lifting, and transporting large bales of hay. The assembly has a frame that is adapted for attachment to a standardized Industrial Truck Association (ITA) carriage. The assembly frame has several forwardly projecting spikes for im... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6893247 | Device for making a part made of a reinforced material by overmolding The invention relates to a picking-up device and assembly for making a part made of a reinforced plastics material in a mold. The picking-up device includes at least one presser having a shaped front face and first needles mounted to have end portions that project b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6739582 | Flexible cable leader A cable leader includes an elongated cylindrical body with a pointed leading end and a hollow tubular end. The tubular end cavity includes an axially tapered inner wall. In one embodiment, the inner wall includes a plurality of axially spaced circumferential bites o... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6659522 | Fruit and vegetable holding utensil A hand held utensil adapted to hold a fruit or vegetable, for example, a potato for peeling. The device has a first elongated member, a second elongated member, a slender slightly tapered rod-like projection, and a mechanism for rotating the projection to... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6513301 | Method of and instrument or arrangement for installing thermal insulation sheets in confined areas A thermal insulation sheet is maneuvered into position, especially in closely confined corners in an attic, by a tool having a prong which is inserted into the sheet, and a pusher surface which contacts the sheet to limit the depth of insertion of the pro... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6457758 | Mechanical litter stick A mechanical litter stick is provided with a mechanism for cycling an operative pick through a given back-and-forth stroke both for stripping litter off a spike end as well as affording better manipulation of articles of litter as by plucking.... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6428066 | Material handling device A material handling device, primarily intended for moving material such as firewood, having an elongated handle with a shaft mounted on the handle and with a point removable mounted in the shaft, the handle, the shaft and the point all being concentricall... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6412840 | Garbage pickup tool A garbage pickup tool includes a handle having a threaded tubular neck and a circular groove, a C-shaped retainer ring fitted within the circular groove, a tubular shaft having an end inserted into the handle, a cable having two ends provided with two nip... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6394518 | Tile spacer remover tool A tool for removing tile spacers includes a barrel having a bushing on its distal end portion, and a tile-spacer-engaging member disposed partially within a bore in the barrel. The tile-spacer-engaging member is disposed within the bore moveably for linea... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6318704 | Method for threading wire through a wall or partition A wire pulling tool for threading a wire through a wall or partition includes an elongate shank having a threaded end adapted to engage the end of a wire such as a cable or other type of electrical wire and a tapered end having a head ending in a point. T... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6309001 | Article piercing end effector An article piercing end effector for an industrial robot. The end effector includes a mounting bracket designed to be coupled to the arm of a robot. Positioned on the bracket is an actuator that is coupled to and controls the movement of a first plate. Th... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6286171 | Apparatus for removing debris from a machined or threaded cavity An apparatus for extracting debris from a machined or threaded cavity. The apparatus may include an extraction member formed at least in part as a coil region and a control region, the coiled region being controlled by the control region while in a cavity... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6050626 | Manual trash harvester A manually-operated trash harvester system includes a trash retrieval assembly that consists of a rod with a spike on one end and a handle for a user's hand and an arm strap for the user's forearm at the other end and a movable tubular scraper mounted sli... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6039373 | Device for lifting and handling fowl or meat A device for facilitating the lifting and handling of a fowl or body of meat, comprising an elongated upper shaft having a proximal end with a handle, an elongated lower shaft spaced from and below the upper shaft for insertion into the fowl or body of me... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6022060 | Litter retrieval device A device for retrieving litter items from the ground. The litter retrieval device eliminates the need for bending over to lift the litter items and includes a spike that could be used to pierce the item to be lifted. Because spikes can be dangerous if exp... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6003914 | Packing cotton removal tool A packing cotton removal tool for removing packing cotton from a container such as a medicine or vitamin bottle. The packing cotton removal tool includes a shaft with opposite proximal and distal ends. The shaft has a hook at the distal end of the shaft. ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5984391 | Microfeature wafer handling apparatus and methods The invention provides wafer handling apparatus for use with a wafer handling mechanism of the type that supports and transports wafers through and during semiconductor processes. Typically, the wafer has a first surface for semiconductor processing and a... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979960 | Tissue grasper Corresponding ends of long, narrow legs are joined together for resilient spring like movement toward and away from each other. The swinging ends of the legs have inward extending flanges with flat bottom portions and teeth projecting downward beyond the ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5941584 | Roast lifting tool A lifting tool for roasted meat, having a main handle with a longitudinal handle axis, a first handle end and a second handle end. A pair of tines are spaced apart, each having a tine base end and a tine tip end and being formed with a substantially conti... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5833286 | Porous membrane separator The present invention provides a device with a protected grasping member for separating a flexible porous membrane from a stack of flexible porous membranes. The device includes a housing with a bore extending from one end of the housing and terminating a... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5833284 | Server for strand-shaped material A server for picking up and discharging strand shaped material, like spaghetti. The invention has the object to provide a server for the easy bringing over of strand shaped material, like spaghetti, from a pot, pan or the like holder into another holder a... | 11/10/1998 |
