Abstract: A medical pill breaker comprising two complementary elongated members pivoted together intermediately of the opposite ends thereof, one end of the members being formed into at least a partial loop to comprise handles and opposite portions of the opposite ends of the members being concave and V-shaped in cross-section and comprising opposed members for breaking relatively lsrge pills, the opposite ends of the elongated members terminating in relatively shorter portions respectively V-shaped in cross-section and comprising breaking members for relatively smaller pills, and abutting portions on said elongated members comprising stop members to limit the closing of the V-shaped breaking members toward each other.

Abstract: An elongated plastic strap of uniform width and thickness of material having a series of evenly spaced longitudinally extending rectangular openings therein midway between the edges of the strap and the opposite edges of the portions of the strap between said openings respectively having a series of notches opposite each other and the notches in each row being spaced apart substantially shorter distances than the spacing of the rectangular openings, the inner ends of opposite pairs of the notches being spaced transversely of the strap a distance substantially equal to the transverse width of the rectangular openings and the length of the rectangular openings being substantially equal to the width of said strap, whereby one end of the strap may initially be twisted substantially ninety degrees and inserted through a selected opening and pulled therethrough to form a loop of desired size around an object and then reversely twist the strap to dispose a section between a pair of opposed notches transversely withi

Abstract: A utility device for use in operating upon shell-type food products such as nuts and shell fish, comprising a transverse head and a pair of handles having one end of each pivotally connected within a recess in said head, the handles having opposed curved recesses adjacent the aforementioned one end of each and also having mating flat surfaces extending from the other ends and abutting each other, in combination with a metal knife blade provided with a unitary handle having a socket extending into the end from which the blade projects, the socket being complementary to the other ends of the pivoted handles and frictionally but separably receiving said other ends and the flat surfaces of said pivoted handles having opposing grooves forming an elongated recess complementary to the shape of the blade and receiving it, whereby the unitary handle serves to utilize the head as a shell-cracking handle.