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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415769 | Vegetable peeler with pivoting head An improved peeler or scraper is disclosed with a pivoting head that can be pivoted between a longitudinal position where the cutting or scrapping blade is in general alignment with the handle to a transverse position where the cutting blade is disposed perpendicula... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7353606 | Hair cutting and styling razor A razor cutter for hair using a blade having one or two accordion shaped cutting edges to allow a feathered cut of hair strands at different points when the cutting edge of the blade contacts hair. Each cutting edge is made up of a plurality of smaller edge sections... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7305910 | Process and tool for cutting monofilament line A process of cutting monofilament line using a cutting tool including a tool body having a cavity for insertion of a bent portion of the monofilament line. A cutting blade is provided in the cavity and a pair of opposing walls in the cavity are located generally par... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7263776 | Fruit and vegetable seed removing device A fruit seed removing device includes a body, a sleeve, a button, a positioning block, a toggle, a pull rod, a connecting block and a knife. By pulling a hand of a pull rod, the pull rod will drive the knife to move inwards or expand outwards. Then the button is rot... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7228631 | Contouring shave The invention is directed to a hand tool for cutting shavings from the surface of a workpiece of wood (or other workable material) to shape and make smooth any three-dimensional surface having concave, flat, and/or convex contours. The thickness of the shavings is m... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7140111 | Food peeler The present invention provides for a food peeler having a removable blade that includes an end received in a bore of the food peeler handle and a resilient member is mounted adjacent to the end of the blade and allows for the blade to be moved between a centered and... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127820 | Flexible flush cut saw The invention described herein relates to a flush cut saw that is capable of safely making a flush cut. The saw has a handle with a thin, flexible blade extending therefrom. The blade has two elongated extensions running away from the handle. The extensions can each... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7107890 | Safety manual vegetable cutter The present invention relates to a manual vegetable cutter, for selectively varied cutting. Furthermore, the cutter of the present invention does not expose the user to risks of serious cuts. The cutter includes a frame fitted with at least one cutting blade mounted... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094310 | Method for joining high-pressure composite pipes A high-pressure composite pipe includes a pipe-shaped inner layer made of a synthetic resin, and a reinforcing layer made of a stretched polyolefin resin sheet and wound on an external circumferential surface of the inner layer, with a winding direction of the reinf... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073264 | Bag slitting apparatus A bag slitting apparatus for opening a sealed bag along an edge of the bag. The apparatus has a first arm having first outer and inner surfaces, and a second arm having second outer and inner surfaces. The arms are in tensioned movable opposed relationship to each o... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7007391 | Dual containment tubing cutter The present invention is a C-shaped plastic tubing cutter having a C-shaped grasping portion and a fixed cutting blade. The grasping portion has an opening for receiving the tubing whereby the width of the opening is measurably smaller than the diameter of the tubin... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994010 | Cutting tool for a punching machine, method for producing said cutting tool and punching machine A cutting tool (1) for a punching machine has a punching body (8) on which a plurality of punching tool elements (5) which are located parallel to each other are provided. The puncing body (8) consists of a double-layered metal sheet (... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968624 | Carrot scoop A device for carving into a carrot comprising a handle having a first end and a second end with at least one blade extending from the first end of the handle. The blade is disposed at a right angle to the handle. The blade has at least one sharp cutting edge operati... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6904686 | Slat ripper A one-piece, hand-held slat ripper for cutting slat, such as vinyl fencing slat, in lengths of uniform width, which includes an enclosed channel of uniform rectangular cross-sectional area housing a blade safely disposed within the channel. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6834579 | Palm food processor A palm food processor includes a casing and a knife seat. The casing is composed of an upper cover and a lower cover detachably joined to each other oppositely with a receiving chamber formed between the two covers, a top side of the upper cover having a hand grip p... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6732622 | Safety manual vegetable cutter The present invention relates to a manual vegetable cutter, for selectively varied cutting. Furthermore, the cutter of the present invention does not expose the user to risks of serious cuts. The cutter comprises a frame fitted with at least one cutting blade mounte... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6722042 | Pumpkin decorative surface carving tool A pumpkin carving tool that has a cutter in the form of a loop projecting a selected distance from an edge of an open annular frame. In the simplest form the cutter is fixed to the frame. In an alternate embodiment the cutter is detachably mounted on the frame. The ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6658742 | Bag slitting apparatus with flat cutting blade A bag slitting apparatus for opening a sealed bag along an edge of the bag. The apparatus has a first arm having first outer and inner surfaces, and a second arm having second outer and inner surfaces. The arms are in tensioned movable opposed relationshi... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6655032 | Pumpkin cutting apparatus A pumpkin cutting apparatus includes a tubular shaft and a cutter releasably coupled to one end thereof, the cutter having a continuous side wall capable of cutting a pumpkin and retaining the cut portion. A plunger shaft extending through the tubular sha... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6625889 | Deburring tool An improved hand tool for trimming and deburring the edges of objects made of various materials is provided with an elongated body member having a longitudinal channel formed therein for receiving the edge of the object to be trimmed. An elongated opening... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6619194 | Omni-bearing peeler An omni-bearing peeler includes a knife holder, a handle and a catch device. The knife holder has a wing part at two opposite lateral sides thereof respectively and two frame plates at a lower portion thereof with a frame groove in between. The frame groo... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6571477 | Pocket cutter for plastic strap A tool for cutting strapping comprises a housing and a slot defined in a base of the housing. A blade is mounted upon the housing, and a handle is pivotally mounted upon the housing between a position remote from the blade and a position adjacent to the b... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6298561 | Tool for cutting sandwich type plaster boards The present invention is directed to a tool for cutting sandwich type plaster boards such as gypsum plaster boards. It is an object of the present invention to provide a tool which allows the exact cutting of those boards in a time saving manner. Accordin... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6254620 | Surgical thread cutter A surgical thread cutter (10) has a blade (18) movable via an actuation mechanism (30) relative to an anvil (20) toward and away from the latter, and a spring by way of which the blade (18) can be acted upon by spring force in one movement direction. In t... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6058610 | Decorative food cutter A simplified cutter for providing decorative pieces to enhance the visual appearance of various dishes. The cutter comprises a hallow cylindrical member secured to a disk shaped lip member. A series of shaped cutter elements are secured to the inside surf... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6032371 | Safety cutting device A cutting device includes a cutting blade having a cutting edge, and a shell holding the cutting blade on the inside thereof. The shell has an outer edge, and has defined therein a chamber that encompasses at least a portion of the cutting edge of the cut... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029387 | Fishing accessory and associated methods A fishing accessory is provided for temporarily parking a fishing implement having a pointed end, for cutting tackle from fishing line, and for cutting fishing line. The fishing accessory includes a generally planar base and a support structure affixed at... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5992286 | Apparatus for opening coin wrappers Coin wrapper opening apparatus that has a surface with a curved or angled cutting edge fixed to it so that the cutting edge faces away from the surface and projects away from it at a height effective to score or cut the wrapper of a wrapped roll of coins,... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5956801 | Articulated windshield wiper blade assembly and refill kit An improved articulated wiper blade assembly includes a wiper blade sub-assembly having a female and male spline portions, and an internal stake located within the spline channel for preventing longitudinal movement of the male spline within the female sp... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5933968 | Pumpkin cutter An elongated tube having interconnected sidewalls defining a generally central cavity extending the length thereof from one end to the other end is particularly designed for cutting the "facial" openings in a pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern. The front end of the c... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5920991 | Device and method for removing dough from baked goods A device for removing dough from a piece of baked goods includes a handle and a blade having a cutting edge secured to the handle. The blade is contoured to define an open region between the blade and the handle so that dough removed from the piece of bak... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5881463 | Carpet face cutter with coacting surfaces and cutouts for securing the lowermost corner of each cutter blade against deflection A cutter for face cutting of carpeting is provided. The cutter includes a floor engaging base and a plate attached to the floor engaging base which is slidable along an inclined path forming an acute angle with the base to form between the movable plate a... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5865110 | Peeler for fruits and vegetables A peeler for fruits and vegetables having a handle for gripping the peeler and having a pair of head portions which diverge from a fore end of the handle and between which a cutting blade is supported. An elongated, generally rectangular plate member such... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5848471 | Windshield wiper reconditioning device A hand-held windshield wiper reconditioning device that has a body shaped and sized to be operated by a hand of a user. In an embodiment of the reconditioning device, a pair of opposing guide surfaces extends between a front face and a rear face of the bo... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5826342 | Vehicle windshield removing tool A vehicle windshield removing tool includes a handle for gripping by the user, and a blade extending from the handle for insertion between the vehicle windshield and the vehicle or gasket holding the windshield. The blade includes a base portion which is ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5815930 | Non-metallic strap cutter A simple, compact and easily useable cutting device for cutting non-metallic straps, wherein a hand held plastic frame is provided with a metallic sharpened blad held in a substantially vertical position in one embodiment and in a substantially horizontal... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5791052 | Tree girdler A girdling tool including a runner which glides along the periphery of a part of a tree; and a knife which girdles the part of the tree, the knife and the runner being angularly spaced from each other so as to define a space for positioning therein the pa... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5765288 | Dual method wallcovering creaser and trimmer apparatus A new and improved wallcovering creaser and trimmer with a tool portion having a rounded periphery. A threaded projection and a pair of projections are secured to the tool portion. A handle projection is integral with the rounded periphery. A radially ext... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5758423 | Edge trimmer An edge trimmer for removing excess edgebanding includes a retainer plate and a guide rail which assemble to hold a beveled, single-edged cutting blade. The retainer plate has a slot to accommodate and guide the excess edgebanding. In addition, the retain... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5745999 | Food slicer device A food slicer device (10) comprising a food receiving container (12) having an open top (14) with an inner ledge (16) about the open top (14). A working platform (18) has a pair of low rear insert tracks (20), a high forward seat (22) and an open area (23... | 05/05/1998 |
