...that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6968778 | Garlic peeler A device for peeling the skins off of one or more cloves of garlic is disclosed. The device has a hollow, flexible and deformable body that has an opening formed in its wall through which one or more cloves of garlic can be inserted therein. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6463845 | Device for making cream-style corn A preferred device for making cream-style corn includes a corn-receiving member and a blade member. The corn-receiving member incorporates a first open end and defines an interior that is configured to receive at least a portion of an ear of corn. The bla... | 10/15/2002 |
| 5573803 | Vegetable peeler Disclosed are peelers for fruits and vegetables and the like food products. The peelers are preferably tubular in shape and formed from an extruded flexible homogeneous composition. The tubular shape and its flexibility enables the inside diameter food co... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5342640 | Process and apparatus for peeling food products such as fish, fruits or vegetables The invention relates to a method and device for peeling food such as fish, complete or not, for example sardines, herrings, anchovies, etc.; fruits such as peaches or vegetables such as tomatoes whose skin has been previously subjected to a surface treat... | 08/30/1994 |
| 4550656 | Vegetable peeler A vegetable peeler is provided which can be attached to a water faucet, allowing the user's hands to be freed for handling the vegetable and for the vegetable peels to be washed clear of the peeling blades through the action of water flowing out of the fa... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4545297 | Onion peeling device An onion peeling device is created by means of which a substantial number of onions can be peeled one immediately after the other in simple and sanitary but also precise manner. An onion rest is provided, further pivot arms circularly arranged on a suppor... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4355572 | Apparatus for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit such as tomatoes Apparatus and methods are described for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit, such as tomatoes, in which each fruit is gripped and transported by mechanism along a predetermined path, a cut to the skin of the fruit is produced by cutting device adja... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4023477 | Flexible cable dry peeler with rubber-like cords A dry peeler for fleshy fruit is formed as a rotating cage having an annular helical conveyor with axially extending, circumferentially spaced neoprene peeling cords 3/8 inch in diameter stretched between adjacent convolutions of the helical conveyor. A n... | 05/17/1977 |