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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7140112 | Head cover trimming system A head cover trimming system for trimming around a ground level head cover includes a head cap and a grass trimmer assembly. The head cap is provided on the head cover and includes a centering member. The grass trimmer assembly includes a head member having a periph... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114258 | Fruit stone remover A stone removing tool for removing a stone from a fruit having an outer flesh portion surrounding the stone, the tool having a head section configured for being gripped by a user and a stem section extending from the head section and having an end opposite the head ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7086155 | Apparatus for coring into and cutting food items The present invention provides for an apparatus for coring and slicing a food item comprising: a) a peripheral member; b) a coring element; and c) a plurality of blades extending radially of the coring element to the peripheral member, in spaced relation about the c... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7073277 | Shoe having an inner sole incorporating microspheres The invention relates to the field of shoes in general, and more specifically to the application of microspheres in shoe material formulations to yield desired shoe properties. Even more specifically, the invention relates to a shoe component prepared from a closed ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6904686 | Slat ripper A one-piece, hand-held slat ripper for cutting slat, such as vinyl fencing slat, in lengths of uniform width, which includes an enclosed channel of uniform rectangular cross-sectional area housing a blade safely disposed within the channel. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6874237 | Handle cutter assembly A handle cutter assembly for making C-shaped handle cuts in cardboard boxed and the like. The cutter assembly has a body having an outer shell defining a blade cavity therein. The body has an upper end and a lower end. A lower aperture is positioned in the lower end... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6823764 | Apparatus for boring stoma wafers An apparatus for boring stoma wafers is provided, which comprises a base and a cutter, and enables even a user himself to easily make in a stoma wafer a substantially elliptic hole having a beautiful inner circumference. The base comprises an upper base member on wh... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6796034 | Interchangeable head carving tool A carving tool in which a concave hemispherical cutting head is detachably secured to a base member and a handle by fastener structure, thus securing the cutting head, the base member, and the handle to each other. The carving tool is a swinging impact tool which is... | 09/28/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6752219 | Turf cutting and handling system for golf green cup A turf cutting and handling system for the borehole of a golf green cup includes a generally cylindrical hollow barrel with a cutting edge disposed about a lower periphery of the barrel. A manually grippable handle allows the barrel to be drilled into a playing surf... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6718641 | Hand operated punching assembly A punching tool includes a punching device, and a plier device coupled to the punching device for actuating the punching device with less force. The punching device includes a base detachably secured to one of the jaws with such as a channel-and-flange engagement, a... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6662879 | Semi-automatic garden planter A combined bulb and vegetable planter which is spring loaded to allow the user to readily remove a plug of soil from the ground, either for the purpose of planting vegetables and disposing of the plug of soil or planting a bulb and returning the plug of s... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6578272 | Edge cutting apparatus An edge cutting apparatus provides a means for edging around pop-up and stationary sprinkler devices and provides a safe and secure means of transporting the components of the apparatus. An edge cutting apparatus can include a cutter handle with a compres... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6519858 | Non-threaded fastener removal tool An impact tool for use in removing a non-threaded fastener from a first substrate anchored to a second substrate by the fastener. The tool includes a shank having a longitudinal axis, first and second ends, and an exterior surface. A driving head is locat... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6386294 | Hole making system A hole making system for efficiently cutting a hole into a ground surface and for allowing effective removal of the plug. The inventive device includes a cutter assembly, a tamper assembly slidably positioned within the cutter assembly, and a hammer assem... | 05/14/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6277135 | Driven rotary incision scalpel A driven rotary incision scalpel having a pistol handle-shaped housing halves providing for mounting of a small form factor motor having a drive shaft. A gear on the front end of the drive shaft is enmeshed with the inner teeth of a ring gear of a two-sta... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6223637 | Catheter side-wall hole cutting method and apparatus A hole cutter adapted for cutting holes through the sidewalls of medical catheters is fashioned from a hollow tube having a distal cutting end, a proximal ejection end and a lumen of smaller diameter near the cutting end. Slugs formed at the cutting end a... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6058610 | Decorative food cutter A simplified cutter for providing decorative pieces to enhance the visual appearance of various dishes. The cutter comprises a hallow cylindrical member secured to a disk shaped lip member. A series of shaped cutter elements are secured to the inside surf... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6052910 | Vegetable cutting device A new vegetable cutting device for cutting lettuce and the like into shaped portions suitable for use with a variety of sandwich types. The inventive device includes a body member having a top portion, a bottom portion and a lateral portion, a slot formed... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6035750 | Hole cutter with vacuum slug removal A hole cutter adapted for cutting holes through the sidewalls of medical catheters is fashioned from a hollow tube having a distal cutting end, a proximal ejection end and a lumen of smaller diameter near the cutting end. Slugs formed at the cutting end a... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6009625 | Hole forming assembly for irrigation tubing A hand tool combination is useful for punching various sized holes in the sidewall of irrigation tubing to discharge water onto crop-growing soil. The tool combination comprises an elongated handle member including a hand grasping section at one end there... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5930901 | Hand tool and method for carving a vegetable into a predetermined shape A hand tool for carving a generally ellipsoid shaped vegetable, such as a potato, turnip, radish or carrot, into a predetermined shape, particularly a mushroom shape, is provided. The hand tool includes a hollow elongated cylinder that has a first end ter... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5806190 | Handle cutter assembly A new Handle Cutter Assembly used in the packaging and shipping of things in cardboard boxes and the like. The inventive device includes a handle, a cutter for cutting handle slots, and an exacto knife. In use, the Handle Cutter Assembly is pushed against... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5752432 | Expandable volume food preparation and forming tool apparatus and method The invention is an expandable volume food preparation tool for precisely and quickly forming a quantity of dough into a plurality of uniform dough blocks having a predetermined volume and shape. Included therein is a base plate having a base opening disp... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5720991 | Multi-shaped ravioli maker A device to form different shaped raviolis includes multiple uniquely outlined cutting and crimping ribs, surrounding finger ejection holes, and an extrusion die plate hand support system.... | 02/24/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5540623 | Bowling thumb hole tape tool An improved bowler's tape tool includes a curved tool portion with an enlarged handle portion. A knife edge is formed at one end of the curved tool portion. The knife edge is smaller than the curved tool in both radial thickness and circumferential extent... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5531753 | Surgical correction of astigmatism A surgical procedure to correct astigmatism comprises performing a first pair of incisions across the cornea's steepest meridian at a first optical zone and an additional two to four incisions across the bisector meridians at a second optical zone that is... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5499914 | Kit for forming a three-dimensional decorative item A kit and method for forming a decorative, three-dimensional object in which a die or template initially forms a two-dimensional sheet of material, following which the sheet, which is larger in size than the size of a three-dimensional mold, is placed in ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5496325 | Split stem surgical saw blade A bone plug cutting blade for a peripheral drive oscillating surgical saw. The blade has a split stem so that it can be placed around a tendon attached to the bone before being inserted into the saw's blade holder.... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5461788 | Grass trimming device for pop-up sprinklers A device is disclosed for trimming grass from around a pop-up sprinkler having an annular top and a pop-up head concentrically mounted within the top. The device comprises a handle having a grip mounted on one end. A circular cutting element is mounted on... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5457888 | Fruit cutter A fruit cutter including a tubular body formed at an upper inner side with a pair of L-shaped grooves, a handle having a cylindrical lower portion provided with a pair of protuberances each engaged with one of the L-shaped grooves of the tubular body, a g... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5390417 | Spaghetti fork and separator system A spaghetti fork and separator system comprising a fork having a plurality of essentially parallel prongs at the lower end and an elongated handle at the upper end; a plunger having a post in a linear configuration extending generally parallel to the hand... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5376098 | Fragmentable anastomosis ring applier A novel surgical instrument suitable for insertion and assembly of multi-ring compression devices for circular anastomosis of tubular tissue sections including a body having means to support and align the rings, means for clamping the rings around the fre... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5329701 | Tool for custom fitting slip-ons to golf shoes and a method of use therefor A tool is used to custom fit rubber slip-ons onto golf shoes for use in wet conditions to keep the feet of the golfer dry. The tool can be manually manipulated to cut openings into the sole of a slip-on of an appropriate size so that the openings are alig... | 07/19/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5242024 | Grass trimming device A grass trimming device arranged to provide for circular removal of plug members in surrounding relationship about such components as sprinkler heads and the like is formed with a cylindrical body having continuous serrated lower edge spaced from an annul... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5103563 | Food preparation device A food preparation device includes a plurality of teeth on a bottom rim of a hollow cylindrical body. Each of the teeth includes an apex that extends parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the device and two surfaces intersecting each other at the ape... | 04/14/1992 |
