Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8109810 | Shellfish positioning and opening apparatus A shellfish positioning and opening apparatus having at least one processing lane whereby the apparatus includes the following stations of an in-feed and singulation station followed by a reorientation assembly station utilizing a vision system and a holding and ope... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7785176 | Portable manual oyster opener and method An apparatus which manually forces open shells during the downward stroke of a reciprocating plunger. Opening can occur through shearing of the two shell halves along their seam. The tip of the plunger can be a long inclined blade and wedge shaped. The apparatus may... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7582005 | Portable automatic oyster opener An apparatus which automatically forces open shells during the downward stroke of a reciprocating plunger. Opening can occur through shearing of the two shell halves along their seam. The tip of the plunger can be a long inclined blade and wedge shaped. The apparatu... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7455576 | Oyster splitting device and method of use Oyster splitting devices split open oysters and clams. A bar clamp has a drawbar slidably inserted through a grip. The drawbar has a stop on one end and a jaw on its other end. The grip has a jaw trigger and a bar release trigger pivotably attached to it. A spike is... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7261626 | Crab meat extracting apparatus A crab meat extracting apparatus for extracting the meat from a boiled or cooked crab. The crab meat extracting apparatus includes a base including a tray having a top side; and also includes a crab support member being attached upon the top side of the tray; and fu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7169033 | Seafood sheller Apparatus for cutting through seafood shell includes a first and second elongated member. The first member includes a handle portion disposed at a first end thereof and a jaw like portion disposed at a radially opposed end. The jaw like portion includes each of a re... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7059231 | Dental model cutter The invention is a dental model cutter for trimming the base of a dental model in a precise predetermined manner where the dental model is precisely secured and positioned under a cutting guide and can be hand sawed or cut, thus eliminating the need of a conventiona... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6244948 | Shellfish opener and method The present invention concerns shellfish opener apparatus and a method of opening. The apparatus comprises a base and a handle attached to the base for rotating the handle about a first axis. The first axis is transversely defined through the base and can... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6190248 | Oyster shucker method and apparatus A method and apparatus for opening oysters or clams along the seam naturally occurring between the hinged portions of the oyster or clam shell. The apparatus is composed of a heavy base portion having a vertical column attached thereto, the column having ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5482500 | Clam and oyster opener An opener for separating the shells of a clam or oyster. The inventive device includes a base plate having a support channel for receiving and supporting an oyster. A lever arm is pivotally mounted to the base plate and includes an engaging tip secured to... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5334080 | Shellfish cracker, shucker A mechanical apparatus is disclosed, consisting of a platform for attaching tools to crack shellfish claws and shellfish body parts also for opening clams and oysters. The device is comprised of a rotating lever to which hand force is applied, and attache... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5288263 | Apparatus for opening shellfish or the like An apparatus for opening a shellfish (e.g. oysters and/or clams) along its seam. The apparatus is comprised of a base having (1) a knife pivotably mounted about a first axis on said base; and (2) a hammer pivotably mounted about a second axis on said base... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5178577 | Shellfish shucking machine An shellfish shucking machine comprising a housing; means on the housing for supporting oyster shells; a tool on the housing for opening oyster shells; and means for operating the tool whereby the tool performs a cutting of the oyster shell and then a spl... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5145448 | Method for removing oysters from oyster shells A method for removing oysters from the shell including steps of an insertion distances and insertion angles of two cutters are detected by measuring the size of the oyster, the oyster is fixed in place with the flat surface of its shell acing upward, the ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4905350 | Plier-type clam opener A tool, particularly a hand tool for opening clams, in which opposed jaw elements are incrementally pivoted closer together by successive opening and closing of handle elements, one fixed to one jaw element and the other pivoted to the other jaw element, ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4870719 | Oyster shell separator An oyster shell separator deploys a conical, helically ridged, powered point driven in rotation by an electrical motor within a wedge shaped housing. The conical point draws the shells onto a flanged collar selected in dimension to fully separate the shel... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4796333 | Shellfish shucking machine A shellfish shucking machine and more specifically a bivalve opening device for safely shucking or opening bivalve shellfish such as oysters, clams and the like. The shucking machine includes a base structure, an upright support structure including a hand... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4590644 | Clam opener A clam opener comprises a pair of holders firmly gripping a clam, and a pivotally mounted knife for forcing the clam shells apart and opening the clam.... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4393545 | Processing of sea urchins A tool for cracking the shells of sea urchins, comprising a blade formed with central recess which enables the blade to penetrate the shell in the region of the mouth thereof without causing significant damage to the internal organs or roe of the sea urch... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4393546 | Oyster splitter The present invention provides a safe, dependable, and simple device for splitting the shells of oysters and clams. The device comprises a support, and shell-splitting means pivotally connected to the support. This invention also provides a method for splittin... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4348788 | Oyster opener A base is provided including a centrally upwardly facing roughened surface portion and the base includes a raised mounting point horizontally spaced to one side of the roughened surface portion. An elongated lever has one end pivotally anchored to the mou... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4255835 | Device for opening shell-fish The present invention pertains to a shell opening device of the type comprising a base carrying an abutment and an opening blade displaceable in a plane perpendicular to the active face of said abutment, characterized in that it comprises means allowing s... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4069552 | Shellfish opening tool Apparatus having utility in the manual opening of shellfish characterized by oppositely disposed pairs of gripping portions which receive both hands of a user thus precluding the placing of digits in registration with a movable blade disposed intermediate... | 01/24/1978 |
