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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7409764 | Cake cutter and server A utensil for cutting and serving pastry or similar goods has operating handles made in form of tabs similar to ordinary scissors for fitting in operator's fingers, a spatula simultaneously used for cutting pastry or similar goods and holding a sliced piece and rigi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7293361 | Hand tool for chopping ice An ice chopper having a blade for initially engaging ice with a small force followed by an impact of a larger force to break up the ice. The ice chopper has a tube for a handle having a second tube inside with a compression spring. The second tube has a blade attach... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7258053 | Hot dog slicer A food slicer 10 of the present invention contains a hollow body 12 having an inner wall 13 defining an interior 17 and an outer wall 15 for containment of a food product therein. A plurality of blades 32 extends across the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231719 | Hair clipper accessories The present invention achieves technical advantages as devices that attach to hair clippers, providing the clippers with an appearance that is preferably in harmony with the sound of clippers, and that is also non-threatening to a person, such as a child. In one emb... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6851574 | Spoon A spoon includes a handle and a bowl disposed on one end of a handle. The bowl includes a curved frame and a pliable section or portion secured to the frame, the pliable section being movable between a first position for containing the food and a second position whe... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6655032 | Pumpkin cutting apparatus A pumpkin cutting apparatus includes a tubular shaft and a cutter releasably coupled to one end thereof, the cutter having a continuous side wall capable of cutting a pumpkin and retaining the cut portion. A plunger shaft extending through the tubular sha... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6557740 | Device for removing a pill from its package A device for removing a pill from its package including a lower base portion having a generally rectangular configuration. The lower base portion has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, and opposed side walls. The front wall has an upper... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6105254 | Articulating spoon A hand held eating utensil having a pair of scissors like handles pivotally connected to each other at approximately their midpoints. A spoon bowl is at the forward end of one of the handles and a pusher mechanism shaped as an animal head is pivotally con... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5590639 | Masonary cutting tool and method The disclosure is directed to a method of masonary cutting and to the structure of a novel tool. The tool has twin outwardly splayed and flared chisel like blades which join the handle at a recess groove for waste ejection. The blades are beveled only on ... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5468293 | Apparatus and method for constructing a spray in place structure A system for cutting and spraying a plurality of resin strands with an emulsion. The system includes a spray gun that has a cutter assembly that cuts a single resin thread into a plurality of individual strands. The cutter assembly is constructed to cut t... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5462764 | Method for constructing a spray in place structure A system for cutting and spraying a plurality of resin strands with an emulsion. The system includes a spray gun that has a cutter assembly that cuts a single resin thread into a plurality of individual strands. The cutter assembly is constructed to cut t... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5303473 | Cookie cutter A device for cutting and engaging a doughy material having a deformable consistency, forming a material, transferring the shape from a first location to a second location and disengaging the shape. The device includes a cutting edge carried by a housing f... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5216961 | Book index notch cutter A hand-held, manually operated book index notch cutter is placed in the book to be notched. The notch cutter has a cylindrical cutting member (405) which moves parallel to and rotates around its axis. The axis of the cylinder is perpendicular to the book ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5158214 | Solder paste applicator and mixing tool A solder paste applicator for dispensing a tin/lead solder in a uniform, homogeneous fashion. The solder paste applicator comprises both a mixing assembly and a plunger assembly. The mixing assembly mixes the solder until it is homogeneous and the plunger... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5123689 | Sandwich spatula Apparatus for inserting a sandwich into a receptacle, includes a first square plate; a second square plate; a substantially U-shaped connecting section having free ends connected to respective edges of said first and second plates so as to maintain the fi... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4729589 | Device for inserting filling into a taco shell A device for inserting a filling into a taco shell includes a base portion, a top portion, and an ejector portion slidably mounted on the base portion. The base portion includes an elongated handle portion having a lengthwise axis and a scoop portion with... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4699582 | Ice cream scoop An improved two component ice cream scoop made of plastic, includes a bowl portion and handle portion integrally connected, the handle portion further includes an ejecting lever which is biased by a tongue spring, wherein the head portion of the ejecting ... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4690047 | Tool for peeling and coring pineapples and the like The tool comprises two substantially annular and coaxial blades, an inner one and an outer one respectively, each of which has a frontal cutting edge, and a handgrip for enabling the blades to be pushed into the fruit and possibly rotated so as to separat... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4569130 | Serving utensil with integral scraper A serving utensil for cakes and pies has a broad, flat blade with a slanted, upwardly extending rear portion and a tang extending rearwardly therefrom. An extendable planar scraper element is positioned in front of the slanted rear portion of the blade wi... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4546545 | Pineapple cutter A pineapple cutter is provided with a cylindrical body 1 having a cutter edge 1a at the circumference end portion of the lower end, a pair of handles 5, 5 connected to the outer surface of said cylindrical body, a pressing sheet mounted on the inner porti... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4392806 | Ejecting ice-cream scoop There is disclosed an ice-cream scoop including a semispherical bowl, a handle extending from and rigid with the bowl and an ejector pivotally mounted on the handle adjacent the bowl to separate the ball of ice-cream from the bowl. The bowl has a bottom o... | 07/12/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4361926 | Cautery cleaning device A cautery cleaning device including a thumb and fingertip manipulated support member with rubber-like properties through which a cautery blade is guided and in which scraping edges are supported and held in contact with the blade. The support member is co... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4327487 | Wood cutter A cutting tool includes a pair of pivotally connected handles extending through and defining a pair of coacting U-shaped cutting jaws. Each of the cutting jaws defines a cutting edge extending throughout the base and side legs of the U shape. The jaws hav... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4243047 | Instrument for taking tissue specimens In combination with an instrument for taking tissue specimens which comprises a pair of movable jaws. One jaw is capable of being located within a cavity of the other jaw. The tissue specimen is to be located within the cavity. Also located within the cav... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4217692 | Gardening shears Gardening shears having holding members and cutting blades extending therefrom crossing at the location of a driving means with cutting blades having lines thereon, respectively, and the repelling member located adjacent to the cutting lines of blades whe... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4081904 | Roving cutter A lightweight, compact roving cutter for chopping fiberglass roving into short fiber segments, and used in conjunction with a hand-held resin spray gun, has a cutter roller carrying a plurality of blades, a back-up roller cooperating with the cutter rolle... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4042175 | Apparatus and method for dispensing and reinforcing cementitious materials An improved apparatus for constructing bodies of glass-reinforced cement by a spraying process. The invention includes apparatus for improving the uniformity of distribution of glass fibers in the cement, and apparatus for preventing expensive and inconve... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4001935 | Roving cutter A light weight, compact roving cutter for chopping fiberglass roving into short fiber segments, and used in conjunction with a hand-held resin spray gun, has a mounting plate containing an air inlet port for driving an air motor carried thereon, a snap-on... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3992967 | Fiber cutter A fiber cutter for cutting lengths of glass fibers and glass rovings into short lengths includes a cutter roller carrying a plurality of cutting blades and shaped annular means cooperatively associated with a resilient back-up roll means. In operation the... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3947962 | Chopper A chopper assembly of the type normally mounted on a spray gun to chop and spray fiberglass or the like, and which includes a backup roll driven by an air motor and a cutter roll. The exhaust of the air motor is expelled through air jets in the cutter rol... | 04/06/1976 |
