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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363710 | Rotary cutting tool assembly A tool assembly comprising a primary tool including a housing internally mounting a rotary cutter blade with a portion of the blade exposed for a cutting action, and a cover for selectively protectively enclosing the cutter blade of the primary tool, the cover also ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7266894 | Apparatus for slicing fruit and other items An apparatus for slicing fruit or other items is provided. The apparatus includes a top interlocking blade, a middle interlocking blade, and a bottom interlocking blade, each having an apex and two downward sloping edges of approximate equal length. The blades have ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7165475 | Bottle opener The invention also provides for a bottle opener that includes a finger engaging portion adapted to at least partially surround at least one finger. A handle portion is fixed to the finger engaging portion. The handle portion includes an opening head. The opening hea... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7121939 | Utensil configured for opening shellfish shell and method for providing same A knife comprises an elongated handle, a blade attached to and extending longitudinally from an end of the handle, and a shell-slitting tine attached to the blade adjacent a tip portion of the blade. A first longitudinal edge of the blade is generally blunt and a se... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7011003 | Fork with tine protector guard and method A large kitchen or barbecue fork and protector for preventing injuries from sharp tines of the fork and preventing food contamination from bacteria and dirt on the tines. The guard is movable on a shank of the fork from a covering relationship with the sharp pointed... | 03/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6964100 | Knife guard A knife guard (100) selectively guards a tip (202) of a blade (206) of a knife (200) while exposing at least a portion of a cutting edge (208) of the blade, the knife including a handle (204) coupled to the blade. The knife ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6951032 | Thumb protection device A thumb protection device for preventing injury to a person's thumb while playing a sport such as baseball includes a tubular main member of a padding material. The tubular main member fits snugly over the thumb of a user and includes a slit to facilitate wearing of... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6935941 | Fish pin bone remover The fish pin bone remover has a handle and a blade member. The blade member is formed from a V-shaped blade blank. The blade blank has a left leg, a right leg and a bridge portion interconnecting the legs. The legs have inside edges and outside edges. The bridge por... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6918137 | Protective hand guard A hand guard is disclosed having impermeable protection features and allowing skin contact on the pads of the fingers and thumb on a sensing hand. The first foil is a metacarpal guard shaped to cover the metacarpals and wrap around to cover a portion of the palm and... | 07/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6671964 | Green banana/plantain safety peeler The present invention consists of a safety cutter for peeling green bananas or plantains wherein a handle portion is provided adjacent a head portion which carries a peeling element with dual opposing peeling blades. The dual opposing peeling blades are r... | 01/06/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6360442 | Grapefruit knife A grapefruit knife for use in cutting sections of edible fruit from the less desirable membrane and peel is disclosed. The present invention includes a handle having two opposing ends, a single cutting blade attached to one end of the handle, and a scoopi... | 03/26/2002 |
| 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 |
| 5845565 | Peeler A hand holdable peeler for fruit and vegetables comprises a housing that has an electric motor mounted in the housing to rotate a peeler attachment. The peeler attachment has a central body and a number of planar plastic blades. Each blade has serrations ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5659962 | Peeling device The peeling device includes a base body and a peeling blade. The base body has a thumb fitting part designed to fit with a palm side of a user's thumb and a holding part with which the device is held on the thumb. The thumb fitting part and the holding pa... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5613431 | Avocado cutter A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and a frame mounted at one end of the handle. The frame h... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5533442 | Avocado peeler and slicer A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and cutting rings are mounted at one end of the handle. T... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5497552 | Green banana/plantain peeler A device for peeling a green banana and plantain comprising a handle to be grasped by a first hand of a person. A curved peeling tip extends outwardly from an end of the handle to fit under a skin of the green banana and plantain, in which both ends are c... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5481803 | Safety feeder A safety peeler including a short cylindrical shell having a closed exterior portion and an open interior portion with a cylindrical extension extending therefrom including an external threaded portion and an exterior surface therebetween with a top edge ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5471746 | Vegetable/fruit peeler and method of use In a preferred embodiment, a vegetable/fruit peeler, including: a body portion having a cavity defined therein; a cover plate closing a portion of the cavity; and an exposed knife edge extending through an opening defined in the cover plate, the knife edg... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5461971 | Union peeling device An onion peeling device comprised of a shield having an open lower end and a rounded upper end. The open lower end has a slot formed therein extending upwardly therefrom. The slot has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a width gre... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5305527 | Method and apparatus for peeling produce such as garlic Apparatus and method for peeling the husk from produce such as garlic cloves in which cup means are provided with circumferentially spaced, inwardly biased prongs that converge toward an exit end, the prongs having gripping members adjacent the exit end. ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5251377 | Vegetable and fruit peeler and peel collector A vegetable peeler that includes an oval shaped housing having a bottom and an open top, a concavely curved surface formed in the bottom of the oval shaped housing, a slot formed in the concavely curved surface and aligned with the length of the housing, ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5146681 | Elongate vegetable skin cleaner apparatus An apparatus for removing a skin layer of elongate vegetables, such as cucumbers and carrots, includes an elongate housing mounting blade segments therewithin. A manually supported embodiment of the invention includes coaxially arranged resilient segments... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5115565 | Food utensil A food utensil (10) is provided for cutting a food product (12) and removing material (18) therefrom. A flexible U-shaped gripping member (20) is provided where a base section (24) is formed in one piece formation with arm members (26,26') and extend to s... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5052108 | Handleless cutting and paring tool for fruits/vegetables A handleless cutting and paring tool for fruits and vegetables comprising a handleless oblong plate-like body with a slightly concave cross section configuration, means for slitting and paring member provided at one end of the body, a sectorial portion fo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4982499 | Potato peeler New apparatus for peeling potato is disclosed. This hand-operated device includes a cylindrical container in which slides a spherical basket. The container is fitted, on inside wall, with spring mounted cutters forming together a self-adjustable periphera... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4959903 | Citrus fruit pulp cutter A cutting device for segmenting and derinding a half-section of a citrus fruit and for collecting the pulp thereof. It comprises: a rigid first ring, a number of arcuate knives spacedly upwardly projecting from a second integral ring toward an apex area t... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4937941 | Adapter to convert a knife into a skinning tool An adapter for converting a knife into a skinning tool. The adapter comprises a removable point protector that fits over the tip of the knife blade, with the point protector being provided with first securement means. The adapter also comprises a bottie t... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4893408 | Enclosed peeling knife and prong holder A telescoping set comprising a peeler knife and a set of holding prongs both fastened to handles of the same outside diameter having a common axial center line. Recesses in the front face of the peeling knife handle telescopically accommodating the prongs... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4841640 | Hand and gut guard A guard made for hunters to aid them in field dressing animals in woods or cutting them in camp, with no fear of cutting hand or animals gut. He uses this guard with his own hunting knife making the job quick and easy. The guard is also a whistle, in case... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4776092 | Peeler attachment for electric knife A peeler attachment for an electric appliance includes a frame having a central slot therein and a blade disposed centrally of the slot. The blade includes first and second cutting edges at opposed sides thereof. The cutting edges are spaced from the cent... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4763416 | Field dressing attachment for hunting knife A device attachable to a hunting knife, to adapt same for skinning and field dressing operation. The device comprises a guard member adapted to fit over only a tip portion of the knife blade, with a passage in the guard member receiving the tip portion of... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4697345 | Apparatus for segmenting edible peels of fruit and the like Apparatus for segmenting the edible peel of a fruit or the like utilizes a flexible resilient base member which is deformable to conform to the surface of the fruit and which carries on one side thereof a plurality of interconnected blades which define a ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4683655 | Citrus fruit peeler A device for rapid peeling of citrus fruit such as oranges comprising a knife with a curved bottom cutting edge, an upper lateral stabilizer fin with thumb abutment and a handle with a "pic" end.... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4601102 | Guard for skinning knife A guard for the cutting edge of a knife used in slitting, eviscerating and skinning of game and the like. A concave, arcuate body includes a longitudinal slot normal to the concave body for accepting the forward cutting edge of a knife blade. The forward ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4369574 | Peel concentrating clearance box This invention relates to a kind of peel concentrating clearance box, in which a peeler is inset into the surface of a columnar box and upon paring, the peels will enter into the box along the slot of the peeler so as not to be thrown about. After the par... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4190050 | Trephine instrument for use in cornea removal and transplant A trephine instrument for use in surgical removal of a cornea includes a cylindrical blade mounted on an elongate handle. The blade is power-driven and an actuating element is operable for selectively extending and retracting the blade. In a second embodi... | 02/26/1980 |
