Detachable Guard Patents (Class 30/284)
  • Multi-function kitchen knife system
    Patent number: 11123885
    Abstract: A knife has a blade with a tip forwardly, a tang rearwardly, a spine upwardly, and an edge downwardly. A handle encompassing the spine. A plurality of components, including a cheese slicer, are formed in the blade along the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Martha Perez-Espartero, Nestor Espartero
  • Hand tool safety shroud
    Patent number: 6389701
    Abstract: A hand tool is fitted with a fixed shield and a movable shield which is rotatably mounted around the fixed shield. The two shields are aligned with one another by each shield being keyed into a countersunk washer formed with an anchor slot for the fixed shield and a semi-annular guideway for the movable shield. A torsion spring normally biases the movable shield into a closed position about the fixed shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Gyros Precision Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard Friedland
  • Knives with molded protective cover and handle
    Patent number: 4825545
    Abstract: A knife, such as a surgical scalpel or a handymans knife has a protective blade cover (3) moulded integrally with the handle of the knife. The end portion of the knife and the cover are both formed in mating halves about a common fold line and the knife blade is secured by folding the halves over each other to trap the blade and securing, as by welding, The cover has a part-circular recess (5) to receive a part-circular tip (7) at the end of the handle. The knife and cover are connected together only by a frangible web between the recess (5) and the tip (7). When the web is ruptured for first removal of the cover, the tip (7) has snap-fitting engagement in the recess (5) to permit replacement and retention of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Sabre International Products Limited
    Inventors: Anthony J. Chase, John E. Payne
  • Combined knife and slicer
    Patent number: 4638561
    Abstract: A combined knife and slicer comprising an elongated blade having a knife edge, a pair of spaced stub shafts connected to the opposite end portions of the blade so as to extend laterally therefrom, and a spacer guide adjustably carried by the stub shafts and normally biased by a spring element in one direction so as to assume a position spaced a distance from the knife edge in a direction conforming to the cutting direction. The spacer guide includes a spacer bar, the spacing between the spacer bar and the blade defining a thickness of one or more slices which are intended to be produced from a solid food item, for example, a loaf of bread or a ham.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Daishoku Kako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Koike