Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7300533 | Method and apparatus for repairing a wall covering A cutting implement has a body with a top and a bottom and one or more blades extending outwardly of the bottom and defining a closed cutting path. In one embodiment, the implement has a cutting depth control. The cutting implement is particularly useful in cutting ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7159320 | Tool for forming a candle-receiving opening in a fruit or vegetable A small hand tool is provided for forming in a fruit or vegetable an exterior surface recess for complementarily receiving a tealight candle. The tool has a hollow cylindrical body centered around an axis and having a sharpened lower end portion, and a handle projec... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7024979 | Cutting template for cutting meat pieces A cutting template for use for cutting of a plurality of substantially equal size meat pieces. The cutting template is to be hand operated by being placed by the user in conjunction with a meat section and then the user takes the knife and severs the meat section th... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6923104 | Tensive cutting assembly A tensive cutting assembly includes a tensionable cutting member formed of a strip of material, typically metal, which is formed having a serpentine configuration. The tensionable cutting member is removably mounted on a tensive cutting head. The tensive cutting hea... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6887250 | Multiple bladed surgical knife and method of use A multiple bladed surgical knife for removing donor strips of hair-laden scalp tissue from a donor for hair graft transplantation to a donor. The knife includes a plurality of blades which are spaced apart by a plurality of spacers. The blades may advantageously shi... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6497045 | Hand held loop cutter A hand held loop cutting tool for cutting tufted loops of yarn projecting from a carpet includes a handle portion connected to a blade carrying housing portion carrying a blade holder having a plurality of slots for receiving a like number of blades. The ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6421924 | Cushion back carpet cutting tool The cushion back carpet cutting tool is a hand tool for cutting foam back carpeting that creates a clean straight cut through the carpeting so that a smooth unnoticeable seam results where two pieces of carpet material are brought together. The tool inclu... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6381852 | Pastry cutter set with combined storage case and support A pastry cutter set with combined storage case and support. The cutters include a closed peripheral wall suitable for stamping corresponding shapes from rolled pastry dough. Two sizes are provided for each shape, with these sizes permitting nesting of the... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6009786 | Uniform bar and cake cutter A method and apparatus for quickly and easily cutting straight and uniform dessert bars is provided. The baker's cutting device consists of two parallel blocks connected perpendicularly by two parallel guide bars. The bottom of the front block is configur... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5979281 | Produce slicer and chopper device A produce slicer and chopper device (10) comprising a housing (12) having a large compartment (14) and a small compartment (16) in a side by side relationship. A first blade assembly (18) is mounted onto a top of the housing (12) to be manually operated t... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5960548 | Pastry cutter for cutting two layers of dough A device for making food items from puff pastry includes an external, peripheral cutting blade having a structure like that of ordinary cookie cutters so that the shape of the external blade determines the shape of a section of dough that is separated fro... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5946809 | Drywall outlet cutter A device for cutting openings having a predetermined shape in a drywall panel includes a housing with a base and an integrally formed side wall extending outwardly from the periphery of the base in a substantially perpendicular fashion. The base and the s... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5592742 | Cutting edge arrangement A cutting edge arrangement comprising multiple cutting plates, each plate having opposing planar surfaces and a cutting edge along one side, said plates joined together along facing planar surfaces, the cutting edges aligned parallel to each other and sli... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5547361 | Tooling for facing a wall Tooling for facing a wall includes a plurality of cavities which are formed by four blades, each of the cavities corresponding to various brick sizes. Six lines of interconnected cavities are attached to a cross beam. Adjacent cavities and lines are space... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5456010 | Kitchen device with cover for chopping and cutting A food chopper and slicer knife mechanism for kitchen use comprising an elongated central blade of an extended length having a handle formed at each opposite end and a pair of internally spaced holes extending through the blade on opposite sides of the ce... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5303472 | Card dicer apparatus An apparatus to effect the dicing of credit cards to prevent their inadvertent and unauthorized use is provided to include confronting faces, with the first face of a first housing having a matrix of lug members in a parallel relationship received within ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5193279 | Sheetrock cutting tool apparatus A housing mounts a continuous side wall formed with a cutting edge arranged in a single plane, with the housing including a top wall, with a projecting flange extending upwardly of the top wall in an orthogonal relationship, and an upper distal end of the... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5088201 | Spaghetti cutting device A spaghetti cutting device includes a pair of cutting edges spaced apart by a shorter cutting edge therewith, the cutting edges being configured to cut the strands of spaghetti extending outwardly from the sides and ends of the tines of a fork. The cuttin... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5063674 | Vegetable slicer A vegetable cutting device (1) moulded in at least three discrete parts, a main body member (2), at least one intermediate member (6) and a bottom member (10), each of which are adapted to engage together and retain a set of blades therebetween. At least ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5035056 | Banana slicer A utensil or tool specifically adapted for slicing bananas includes a frame which circumscribes an area generally conforming to the shape and size of a typical banana. The frame has two opposing curvilinear longitudinal sides which are interconnected with... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4998348 | Toddler meal processor A cutting implement and method for subdividing sandwiches such as hamburgers into pieces that a toddler or small child can handle. The food processor includes a circular frame approximately two inches in height which is attached to five equally spaced par... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4796361 | Welding electrode can opener A can opener has an elongated rectangular base plate on which a can support box is centrally mounted. Four right angle corner rails extend upwardly from corners of the support box. The rails are connected by side support braces which form a square around ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4792299 | Biscuit cutter and cooperative mold A biscuit cutter having at least one cutting element defined by a hexagonally oriented cutting edge which taper upwardly and inwardly to form a circular biscuit forming cavity and which cutting element may be cooperatively seated within a mold so as to un... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4589207 | Wallpaper trimmer A wallpaper trimmer is provided and consists of an elongated straight edge, a body member having a downwardly extending lug that engages a groove in the straight edge so that the body member can slide along top surface of the straight edge and a perpendic... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4580324 | Method for rounding flat-oval tubing A method for rounding a fixture receiving end of flat-oval tubing having internal transverse webs is disclosed. The webs are severed and the ends of the web severance are then reformed to reduce stress concentration in preparation for further working. The... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4243038 | Skin incising device for scar removal A skin incising device for scar removal is disclosed comprising a holder and a first cutting member having an elongated relatively thin blade element with a continuous cutting edge characterized by a plurality of transversely disposed corrugations, the sa... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4199841 | Hand meat tenderizer A hand meat tenderizer which allows a plurality of incisions to be made simultaneously in a meat cut and which comprises a plurality of penetrating or piercing elements held by a handle and a stripping plate tending to retract said elements.... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4083111 | Nut cutter A nut cutter for cutting through nuts that are rusted or otherwise frozen to bolts or other threaded fasteners. The working end section of the chisel-like nut cutter includes a pair of bifurcated sharpened tines. The central notch separating the bifurcate... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4055892 | Food dicer A food dicer with a hinged cutting cover and a slideout bottom.... | 11/01/1977 |
| 3976039 | Internal combustion engine with stratified charge A piston type internal combustion engine operating on the stratified charge principle with the object of nonpolluting combustion wherein the engine has a standard valve-charging with a rich mixture. After admission of the rich mixture a quantity of air is... | 08/24/1976 |
