Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7402099 | Crushing device for a bird's head An apparatus for crushing a bird's head includes a first member and a second member that are pivotally attached and which are adapted to pivot about an axis. An inner arcuate recessed area is provided on an interior side of each member intermediate a second end and ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7361080 | Utensil for opening a shell of a crustacean A utensil for opening a shell of a crustacean, such as crab, lobster and the like, has a pair of pivotally connected elongated members. Each elongate member has a handle portion and a head portion. A cutting blade is positioned in each of the head portions; the cutt... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7275671 | Pill splitter with rotating bed A pill splitter splits a pill in quarters along a major axis and a minor axis The pill splitter has a lower body, and an upper body, integrally affixed to the lower body. A rotating bed receptacle is rotatingly affixed in the pill splitter, and contains a bed substa... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261627 | Multi-use seafood utensil A multi-use seafood utensil for opening shellfish and crustacean seafood having outer shells for the removal of meat, the utensil comprising: a head portion having a prying blade for prying a seafood shell open and a bifurcated ripping blade for cutting a seafood sh... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7228770 | Pliers Pliers for installing a bushing within a drive selector linkage assembly of an automobile. The pliers include a first arm having a first handle portion and a holder portion. The holder portion is configured to independently hold a bushing to be installed within a dr... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7169033 | Seafood sheller Apparatus for cutting through seafood shell includes a first and second elongated member. The first member includes a handle portion disposed at a first end thereof and a jaw like portion disposed at a radially opposed end. The jaw like portion includes each of a re... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7112129 | Shellfish cracking device A shellfish cracking device for cracking shellfish such as lobster and crabs is provided. The shellfish cracking device includes a first cracking member having a first handle portion, middle portion, and blade portion; and a second cracking member having a second ha... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7051911 | Apparatus and method for cutting sheet materials A method and apparatus are taught for cutting a sheet material comprising the steps of engaging a first side of the laminated web structure with a crack initiator having a high rake angle, the crack initiator extending from a first cutter base having a low rake angl... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6968987 | Quartering pill splitter A quartering pill splitter includes a bed having a recess formed within, the recess having a cross section which substantially conforms to the pill shape. A thin, cruciate cutting blade assembly is disposed below the pill bed, so that the pill, when inserted into th... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6926599 | Shellfish dressing device and method A device for dressing shellfish comprises a handle and a working end. The handle can have a pair of handle members manually actuable with a single hand. The working end can incorporate a pair of blades connected to the respective handle members. The blades can be co... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6739056 | Nut piercer A device for piercing a nut comprising a first member having a receptacle for receiving the nut and a first handle section. A second member is also provided having a handle section and a cover section for the receptacle. The cover section has an opening formed there... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6279232 | Apparatus for removing eggshell The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing an eggshell, which provides a body and handle for holding an egg softly by linkage between them, a removing plate for breaking the eggshell with the handle, an operating device for expanding the r... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6163962 | Chestnut's friend A tool is used for piercing a chestnut to prevent it from bursting while cooking. The tool includes a base, an inverted U-shaped support, a plunger, a striking knob connected to a top end of the plunger, a bumper on the opposite end of the plunger, and a ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6151782 | Nutcracker A device for cracking the shells of fruit, such as in particular walnuts, of the type comprising two elements adapted to pivot, by one of their respective ends, about a transverse pin, comprising a fruit-gripping area adjacent to the pivot axis in which t... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6052906 | Nutcracker The nutcracker has two handles which can be pivoted toward each other about a pin. The one handle is connected to a basket for receiving a nut. The other handle is designed as a pressing handle, its end region being constructed as the pressing part. An in... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5926957 | Compression tool A compression tool for use in applying compression with a predetermined limited movement to a workpiece. The tool includes first and second lever arms with workpiece engaging surfaces and adjacent hinged ends. When compressing a workpiece, e.g., a nut, th... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5634272 | Device for a piercing a nut A nut can be pierced with a device employing an upper member having a manually engageable surface. The device also has a base with an underside adapted to stably rest atop a horizontal support surface. The upper member has a free end, a pivotal end, and a... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5596807 | Hand tool and method for use thereof A hand tool for compressing objects has first and second opposing pivotally connected members for receiving an object and an extension of the first pivotal member permitting striking of the extension to effect sudden and rapid compression of the object. T... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5566452 | Dual nutcracker A dual nutcracker comprising a first undulating lever and a second straight lever. A structure is for pivoting the first undulating lever to the second straight lever. The shells of different sized nuts can be cracked with a scissor-like action, when the ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5351402 | Hard nut kernel extractor A hand operated, hard nut kernel extractor device comprising: scissor action leverage handles, chipper blade, concave constructed blade seat with a spoon shaped extension to serve as a nut support and blade guard for safety; used to chip the hard shell of... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5206997 | Compression-producing tool, usable as a nutcracker A tool for producing compression, advantageously usable as a nutcracker, has two straight leg members hinged together at one end and mutually opposed jaw sections on the legs adjacent the hinge and a grasping portion remote from the hinge. The location of... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5174026 | Nutcracker with compartmented receptacle A nutcracking apparatus includes a nutcracker and a compartmented receptacle. The receptacle if formed having side walls, end walls and a floor, with a support wall dividing the receptacle into a nut compartment and a smaller shell compartment. A support ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5097597 | Spiral nutcracker/grinder A tool for the exertion of firm, well-modulated, compressional and shear force, ideally suited to the removal of nutshells by hand. An inclined surface moves alongside another surface, creating a V-shaped gap. Such movement will cause materials to be grip... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5052107 | Chestnut cutter The present invention, a hand held Chestnut Cutter which is adaptable for all sizes of the chestnuts. This cutter is similar in shape and system to a hand held garlic press or nut cracker. Nut cutter is comprised of a pair of levers which are pivotally jo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4964215 | Apparatus for cracking a melon seed An apparatus for cracking the hull of a melon seed. The apparatus includes a flat plate and a pair of cracking members pivoted to the flat plate. A protrusion projects from the surface at which the cracking members are located. The cracking members have t... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4768693 | Canister opener A hand-operated canister opener tool, and method, for opening a frangible, plastic-walled, hollow canister (such as one containing a cryptographic, secret, military code) having two pivotally connected elements carrying a canister piercing member for pier... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4614034 | Compression-producing tool A tool for applying compression, e.g., a nutcracker, having a hinged pair of lever arms pin connected to a common housing. The housing contains a stopping device designed to provide a fixed crushing rotation movement to crush the nutshell without crushing... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4582265 | Garlic crusher and/or mincer The invention consists in a device for crushing or mincing garlic or other things. The device has an open topped receptacle formed with sides and a perforated bottom. A plunger fits within but is removable from the receptacle to allow garlic to be placed ... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4554737 | Nutcracker A nutcracker having two lever arms having first ends, a hinge pin connecting the two lever arms to each other, a press cup having an open top and substantially plane press surfaces, and press jaws, each of which is disposed at the first ends of the two le... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554736 | Nutcracker A nutcracker that includes a pivoted arm for cracking the nuts, a channel to both hold the nut for cracking and to reduce shell scatter, the movement of the pivoting arm being limited by a stop which prevents damage to the nut meat.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4550495 | Nut kernel extractor This invention relates to a light weight, portable, hand-operated device for extracting the kernels of very hard-shell edible nuts in premium-size pieces without crushing. On black walnuts the device is effectively used: first to split the nut along its n... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4536958 | Twin element, cylindrically disassemblably hinged tool A tool, particularly a nut-cracker, consisting of two twin elements each having at one end a projection shaped as a cylinder sector surrounded by an annular element forming an eyelet and by a circle sector shaped tongue, concentrical with respect to said ... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4425707 | Compression tool, useable as nutshell remover A tool for applying compression, most suitable as an edible nutshell remover, comprises a pair of elongated legs (10,12) hingedly attached at one end (14), with roughened jaw sections (30,34) adjacent the hinge and grasping sections (32,36) remote from th... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4397087 | Food-type combination utility device having hammer-like head A utility device for use in operating upon shell-type food products such as nuts and shell fish, comprising a transverse head and a pair of handles having one end of each pivotally connected within a recess in said head, the handles having opposed curved ... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4200042 | Nut cracker First and second levers are pivotally connected together at one end and have opposed portions provided with one or more cross grooves for receiving nuts to be cracked. These grooves have varying depth from one end to the other and also have varying width,... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4173825 | Nutcracker The invention provides an adjustable cracking device for cracking nuts of a wide variety of sizes. The device comprises first and second elongate rigid members, each including an elongate handle portion and having a curved serrated gripping surface adjace... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4128938 | Nut-cracking implement A powerful lever is swiveled at one end to a vertical column supported on a base or container. An anvil adjustably mounted upon the column, forms an abutment cooperating with the lever for cracking of nuts. An enclosure is mounted upon the lever for adjus... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4077121 | Nut cracker A nut cracker having a pair of pivotally connected jaws and a pair of handles, each of which is connected to a respective one of said jaws so that opening and closing movement of the handles causes corresponding movement of the jaws. Each jaw has a workin... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4009651 | Nutcracker A nutcracker designed to eliminate the scattering of shells and hulls in the cracking operation which includes a carrying tray with a hinged base mounted therein and having a cooperating hinged cracking lever with cracking lever flanges to permit cracking... | 03/01/1977 |
