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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7219432 | Stamping and die-cutting tool with a quick mould change design A stamping and die-cutting tool with quick mould change design comprises: a casing and a pushing member. The pushing member has a pushing portion to be fixed at an extended position and a retracted position alternatively after being pressed repeatedly. The pushing m... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7159318 | Nail cutter An apparatus for cutting an individual's fingernails. The apparatus has a plurality of holes into which a finger nail can be inserted to be clipped. The apparatus also has an internal reservoir for storage of finger nail clippings and also has placements of animal h... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140288 | Device for shaping a food product A method and cutting device makes incisions in an elongated food product, like a hot dog or sausage, to form a pattern or character after the product is cooked. One form of the cutter includes a hinged housing into which the food product is positioned. The housing i... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7121007 | Cutting assembly for removing a windshield and method relating to same The cutting assembly functions to sever the urethane bed bonding a windshield to a vehicle. The assembly comprises a reciprocating air gun connected with a cutting blade by a shaft. The blade has a straight front cutting edge about 4 inches in width. The blade is re... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121599 | Hand-operated tool with central step A hand-operated tool includes a tool head having a central longitudinal axis, a handle extending from the tool head, a connector securing the handle to the tool head, and a central step at an upper end of the tool head and at the central longitudinal axis. A length ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117778 | Corrugated knife fixture with variable pitch and amplitude A corrugated knife fixture is provided for cutting vegetable products or the like particularly such as potatoes, wherein the knife fixture includes one or more knife blades each having a cutting edge with a variable pitch and variable amplitude geometry. The knife f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7020968 | Fruit and vegetable coring machine A coring tool is designed to first pierce the skin of a fruit and/or vegetable such as a pepper. A second phase blade of the coring tool preferably has a pair of oval blades, each with a sharpened leading edge to core the inside of the pepper. Thus, the two phase to... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000564 | Icing sculptor A tool used to sculpt the icing on a baked good. The tool includes a handle having opposing inner sides with a channel formed in at least one inner side. The inner sides of the handle define a cavity therebetween. The tool also includes at least one blade with a pro... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6862968 | Cutting assembly for removing a windshield and method relating to same The cutting assembly functions to sever the urethane bed bonding a windshield to a vehicle. The assembly comprises a reciprocating air gun connected with a cutting blade by a shaft. The blade has a straight front cutting edge about 4 inches in width. The blade is re... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6754965 | Integrated sandwich crimping tool An integrated container crimping and cutting tool arrangement having a tub with an opening therein providing access to an otherwise surrounded volume, and a cover mountable on the tub having an opening at which the cover can be releasably mounted on the tub to preve... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6416524 | Double scalpel A plurality of scalpel handles, one master handle and one or more slave handles. The master handle and one of the slave handles are interconnected to provide uniform, parallel blade separation of two scalpels and their blades.... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6267036 | Fruit and vegetable decorative carving device A device, which can be incorporated into a kit, useful in carving decorative designs in the shell or skin of fruits or vegetables having a base plate, which is preferably flexible, containing a plurality of co-planar, upstanding, piercing elements, in a d... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6170160 | Baked potato opener A baked potato opener is comprised of a pair of side members with connected top ends, downwardly projecting middle portions, and outwardly flared bottom ends. The side members are generally bell shaped in an end view. A cutter is connected to the top ends... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6112417 | Precision vinyl & carpet trimmer A hand operated trimmer for trimming an edge of vinyl, carpet or the like being installed on a floor so that the cut edge of the floor covering will lie closely against an adjacent wall. The trimmer comprises an elongate base member and an integral cuttin... | 09/05/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5983504 | Ice scraper A user-friendly ice scraper is provided to chop and scrape ice. The sturdy ice scraper has a blade housing which holds an ice scraper blade. The blade housing can comprise a plastic blade holder with flared ribs. Advantageously, the ice scraper has a high... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5964299 | Hand held edging tool A hand held grass edging tool includes a substantially flat blade having a top edge, an opposite generally inwardly disposed, v-shaped bottom edge and a pair of opposite side edges extending therebetween, each of the side edges including a generally inwar... | 10/12/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5951580 | Scalpel having two blades adjustably separable A scalpel is provided with horizontally separated first and second scalpel blades and with manually operated devices to adjust the separation between the blades as desired.... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5933968 | Pumpkin cutter An elongated tube having interconnected sidewalls defining a generally central cavity extending the length thereof from one end to the other end is particularly designed for cutting the "facial" openings in a pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern. The front end of the c... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5921153 | Method for manufacturing a bakery cutting device A method for manufacturing a bakery cutting device comprising the steps of selecting a configuration or character, dimensioning the configuration, selecting a deformable metal strip, configuring a plurality of dies to deform pre-selected portions of the m... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5920992 | Two handle pizza cutter A pizza cutter with a dull convex cutting blade and a handle having two upwardly tilting ends. The non-cutting edge of the blade is fixed into a downwardly extending portion of the handle member. One end of the handle member includes a substantially oval ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5873294 | Semi-automatic tool for cutting pizzas into pieces of the same size A semi-automatic tool cuts pizzas into pieces of the same size. A platform has a supporting column provided with a cantilever arm terminating with a sleeve and a slidable rod is within the sleeve. The rod has a base with a series of radial blades on its l... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5864909 | Combination cutter and stencil and method of using same A combination cutter and stencil device. The device includes a cutter having a cutting peripheral edge, and a gripping portion, and a stencil plate with openings arranged in a design. The stencil plate is permanently or temporarily fixed to the cutter. On... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5826668 | Square cut turf plugging tool with adjustable cut depth A device and method for cutting, removing and inserting adjustable depth plugs of square straight edged turf. Square straight edged turf is readily positionable and makes a clean patch where a straight edge must be maintained. The device has a square fram... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5787588 | Ice chipper An improved ice chipper having a plastic blade holder with outwardly propagating reinforced ribs holds a flex resistant blade of minimal thickness. A shaft of the ice chipper can be constructed of a low cost steel pipe covered with a polyethylene sleeve w... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5784787 | Sheet metal penetrating tool A tool used to penetrate ductile sheet metal as the initial penetration in preparation for the attachment or installation of ducting and piping and particularly to forming the initial penetration in sheet metal sheet or ducting from which an opening is ma... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5662010 | Method for manufacturing a bakery cutting device A method for manufacturing a bakery cutting device comprising the steps of selecting a configuration or character, dimensioning the configuration, selecting a deformable metal strip, configuring a plurality of dies to deform pre-selected portions of the m... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5590720 | Lawn edger apparatus A lawn edger apparatus includes a foot plate member which includes a front edge, a rear edge, a first side edge, a second side edge, a bottom face, a top face, a plate length, and a plate width. A blade member is connected to the bottom face of the foot p... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5579582 | Puzzle cookie cutter A puzzle cookie cutter includes a cutting die holder and at least one cutting die removably securable in the holder. The die or dies provide for the cutting of cookie dough, batter, or the like into several separate, irregularly shaped and sized interfitt... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5529130 | Root cutter A root cutter having a blade front end portion and a rear edge provided with a handle and sufficiently wide to receive the foot of a user. The blade has a V-shaped cutting cavity at a front end. An intermediate edge, extending parallel to the rear edge, i... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5465489 | Tool for removing highway lane marking tabs A tool having a base plate for sliding along a roadway surface and defining slots extending rearwardly from a forward edge of the base plate. Each slot has parallel wall surfaces between which a flexible tab to be cut is received and held upright until a ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5446965 | Cake divider A cake slicer and divider includes a core with a plurality of arms detachably securable thereto to project radially from the core. The core includes locators, such as slots to support the arms, the locators being positioned in an array on the core whereby... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5414933 | Cutting device The present invention is directed to a letter opening device comprising an elongated tubular handle, a removable tubular cap and a generally L-shaped cutting guide including a cutting blade and a blade holder. The cutting guide is affixed to the forward e... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5413580 | Carpal tunnel knife A surgical knife includes an elongated shaft with a handle mounted on the rearward end of the shaft and oriented perpendicularly thereto. The forward end of the shaft includes a generally planar blade portion which is oriented perpendicularly with respect... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5406709 | Garden tool A bladed tool for use as a sod cutter, for breaking up the soil in gardens and as an edger. An elongate handle is attached to a blade having first, second and third edges which generally define a triangle. The handle is attached to the blade immediately a... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5375332 | Hammer driven double cut shear device A hammer driven double cut shear device (10) for punching and cutting sheet metal in a precision fashion; wherein the device (10) includes a handle unit (11) having a punching blade (33) projecting outwardly from one side of the handle unit (11) a cutting... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5355754 | Carpet seam cutter A flattened base having a blade holding slot in the upper surface thereof and a steel-rule die type cutting blade mounted therein to protrude sufficiently for cutting through the backing of a pile carpet is configured for placement beneath carpet sections... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5347719 | Device for lifting and cutting glued-down carpet A device for lifting and cutting glued-down carpet that is made of three primary components, a handle, a blade mounting plate and a rod mounting sleeve. The blade mounting plate is secured to the front end of the handle and the rod mounting sleeve is secu... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5313707 | Watermelon seed remover A suitably dimensioned, hollow, crescent-shaped die with an upstanding handle provides a culinary tool for conveniently and quickly removing all the seeds from a watermelon. Upright side walls on the perimeter of the die engage each of the seed-bearing, c... | 05/24/1994 |
