Patents by Inventor Jonathan B. Schmidt

Jonathan B. Schmidt 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).

  • Culinary extruding and mincing tool
    Patent number: 9119498
    Abstract: A culinary tool is provided including a handle and a housing that pivot relative to one another during a forward stroke of the handle to incrementally move, and optionally ratchet, a ram within the housing toward a cutting grid, thereby extruding food through the cutting grid. A cutting blade, joined with the handle distal from the pivot, travels along a blade path near the cutting grid to mince the extruded food. The blade can be joined with the handle at a cantilevered connection, and can be flexible so that as it moves along the blade path, a portion of the blade flexes to allow the blade to cut the extruded food material without binding as the blade moves across the cutting grid. The blade can include one or more sledded feet that project outwardly from the blade and that guide the blade near the cutting grid in a non-binding manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Schmidt, Dennis P. Haggerty
  • CULINARY EXTRUDING AND MINCING TOOL
    Publication number: 20130232799
    Abstract: A culinary tool is provided including a handle and a housing that pivot relative to one another during a forward stroke of the handle to incrementally move, and optionally ratchet, a ram within the housing toward a cutting grid, thereby extruding food through the cutting grid. A cutting blade, joined with the handle distal from the pivot, travels along a blade path near the cutting grid to mince the extruded food. The blade can be joined with the handle at a cantilevered connection, and can be flexible so that as it moves along the blade path, a portion of the blade flexes to allow the blade to cut the extruded food material without binding as the blade moves across the cutting grid. The blade can include one or more sledded feet that project outwardly from the blade and that guide the blade near the cutting grid in a non-binding manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: GRACE MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Schmidt, Dennis P. Haggerty
  • Culinary cutting blade
    Patent number: D658005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis P. Haggerty, Jonathan B. Schmidt
  • Culinary cutting blade
    Patent number: D668912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis P. Haggerty, Jonathan B. Schmidt
  • Culinary cutting blade
    Patent number: D680373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis P. Haggerty, Jonathan B. Schmidt
  • Culinary tool ram
    Patent number: D699507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Schmidt, Dennis P. Haggerty
  • Culinary tool
    Patent number: D699523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Grace Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Carter W. McGuyer, Jonathan B. Schmidt, Christopher R. Grace