Bizarre Patents
Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7069815 | Container opener A container opener comprising a handle portion on which force is applicable when removing a lid from a container and a utility portion for engaging with said lid to be removed from said container, one or both of said portions are generally made of a resilient but re... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6609303 | Pistachio nut opener for splitting open pistachio nut shells A hand held pistachio nut opener for splitting open pistachio nut shells and removing the edible nut from the opened half shells comprises forwardly directed upper and lower protruding members having forward distal edges adapted to be inserted in the late... | 08/26/2003 |
| 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 |
| 5361688 | Combination nut cracker and nibbler A combination nut cracker and nibbler comprised of an upper moveable jaw, a lower fixed jaw, a front pivot arm secured to the lower fixed jaw, a lever arm secured to the front pivot arm and the upper moveable jaw, a back arm secured to the upper moveable ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5185929 | Pecan cracker A nut cracker having a pair of opposed jaws with facing elongate concavities pivotally movable between open and closed positions about a pivot axis parallel to the longitudinal extend of the jaws. The concavities are smooth surfaced and the jaws manipulat... | 02/16/1993 |
| 4905350 | Plier-type clam opener A tool, particularly a hand tool for opening clams, in which opposed jaw elements are incrementally pivoted closer together by successive opening and closing of handle elements, one fixed to one jaw element and the other pivoted to the other jaw element, ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4641430 | Nut splitter A nut splitter is shown which includes a base for supporting the splitter upon a planar surface. A jaw having a cutting wheel rotatably mounted thereon is pivotally mounted on the base and is movable between an open position allowing placement of a nut on... | 02/10/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4171567 | 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... | 10/23/1979 |
