Patents by Inventor Cristain Montemayor

Cristain Montemayor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fruit slicer and juicer apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10455855
    Abstract: A handheld device that permits slicing and juicing a fruit with a single operation of a squeezer handle. The device includes a cradle portion, a squeezer portion, and a blade assembly. The distal ends of the cradle portion, the squeezer portion, and the blade assembly are joined at a hinge, so that the squeezer portion, and the blade assembly may be rotated with respect to the cradle portion. The blade assembly includes a shortened blade handle and a spring positioned between the blade handle and the juicer handle. The spring acts to push the blade into a fruit ahead of the protrusions on the squeezer portion, so that a single operation of the squeezer handle is used to slice and squeeze the fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander R. Schmieding, Cristain Montemayor
  • Fruit slicer and juicer apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20170339998
    Abstract: A handheld device that permits slicing and juicing a fruit with a single operation of a squeezer handle. The device includes a cradle portion, a squeezer portion, and a blade assembly. The distal ends of the cradle portion, the squeezer portion, and the blade assembly are joined at a hinge, so that the squeezer portion, and the blade assembly may be rotated with respect to the cradle portion. The blade assembly includes a shortened blade handle and a spring positioned between the blade handle and the juicer handle. The spring acts to push the blade into a fruit ahead of the protrusions on the squeezer portion, so that a single operation of the squeezer handle is used to slice and squeeze the fruit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander R. Schmieding, Cristain Montemayor
  • Fruit slicer and juicer apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9730466
    Abstract: A handheld device that permits slicing and juicing a fruit in two steps of slicing and juicing. The device includes a cradle portion, a squeezer portion, and a blade assembly all joined at a common hinge. A lemon or other unsliced fruit is placed in the device cradle portion, and in a first slicing step, the user grasps a blade handle to rotate a blade into the fruit. In the second juicing step, the user grasps a handle of the squeezer portion and rotates the squeezer portion into the fruit to squeeze juice from the fruit. A funnel is provided to collect the juice. It is not necessary to slice lemons or other fruit with a knife before juicing, or to touch sliced fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander R. Schmieding, Cristain Montemayor