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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305733 | Golf club head groove cleaning tool A foldable hand tool for use with cleaning golf club heads which has an open position and a closed position. The tool has a first section having a first inner side; a second section having a second inner side; and a connector section. The connector section is connec... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7169068 | Racquet-string alignment pick A stringed-racquet pick including a handle body and a string-realignment member having a conical head with a circumferentially position ridge along the base forming a stop. Furthermore, the handle body tapers to an appropriately smaller cross sectional area on the h... | 01/30/2007 |
| 5875785 | Method of filling a pipe using a pipe tool A pipe tool and method of filling. The pipe tool comprises a handle rigidly attached to a spade at an angle of approximately 225 degrees. A cross-sectional shape of an upper extreme of the spade is that of an arc of approximately 70 degrees, and a lower e... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5758668 | Pipe tool and filling method A pipe tool and method of filling. The pipe tool comprises a handle rigidly attached to a spade at an angle of approximately 225 degrees. A cross-sectional shape of an upper extreme of the spade is that of an arc of approximately 70 degrees, and a lower e... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5722430 | Money clip and cigar cutter A money clip and cigar cutting apparatus is provided with a housing having an opening therethrough. A cutting blade is supported by the housing such that a sharpened edge thereof traverses the opening for cutting a cigar. A money clip is pivotally attache... | 03/03/1998 |
| 4648411 | Tobacco pipe bowl with associated honing tool A tobacco pipe bowl wherein the interior burning chamber is larger at its bottom base than at its top where the bowl opening is located. Furthermore, associated with the tobacco pipe bowl there is associated a honing tool to clean the tobacco pipe bowl.... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4635650 | Pipe cleaner The invention is a device for cleaning tobacco residues from smoking pipes, comprising a generally hairpin-shaped piece of wire having one leg coiled to clean the bowl of a pipe and the other leg kinked to clean the stem of a pipe.... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4600022 | Composite smoker's kit A composite smoker's kit for preparing a pipe or a cigar for smoking. The kit is readily adaptable to the body portion of a lighter mechanism to enable easy transfer from a spent lighter mechanism to a fresh lighter mechanism and thereby enjoy a long life... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4550739 | Pipe tamping tool A pipe tamping tool 10 includes tamping member 26 integrally formed with cleaning member 28 capable of cleaning the interior of the bowl of the pipe. Medially formed on the cleaning member 28 is a reacting member 30 for retaining the pipe bowl in an uprig... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4516586 | Reamer for pipe A reamer includes two reamer plates overlapping with each other. On the base and tip section of these plates, there is provided an adjustable part and both plates are coupled so as to be opened and closed while centering the adjustable part on the tip sec... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4444211 | Pipe bowl reamer and scoop The invention disclosed herein is a smoker's implement which serves as both a scoop and a bowl reamer for a smoking pipe. It is a small, one-piece body tapered at both ends, and is made of relatively thin sheet metal or the like, of dimensions adapted to ... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4188959 | Pipe cleaner A bendable resilient, substantially rigid pipe cleaner which is constructed of an elongated member having a fore end and an aft end located on either side of the handle section. Both the fore end and the aft end are tapered to decrease in width toward the... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4027681 | Pipe reamer and capture tray A supportive tray upstandingly supports an elongated resilient planar loop having convexly contoured reaming sides and an arcuate reaming arch. An inverted pipe bowl placed on and pressed downwardly on the arch deforms the convex sides into conforming eng... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3930509 | Smokers pipe reamer A smokers' pipe reamer comprises a hollow body, a forward portion of which has three longitudinally extending radial grooves and bearing slots, each extending radially from a respective one of the grooves to the interior. In each of the grooves a reamer b... | 01/06/1976 |