Abstract: A citrus fruit press, a rotary squeezing cone on an axially displaceable driving shaft, a switch and operator therefor aligned with the displaceable shaft, a motor operated by the switch and driving the shaft, a strainer beneath the cone, a delay means acting on the switch to assure one complete revolution of the cone, a spiral wiper on the cone and strainer alternately rotated thereby when the cone is depressed and held stationary by a stop when the cone assumes its upper position, and alternately a second cone, wiper and switch.

Abstract: A tool for turning the screw cap on a container and having a handle and a band to loop around the screw cap, a screw-threaded tensioning device to tighten the band onto the screw cap, and a quick release nut or other similar quickly releasing device to quickly release the band.

Abstract: A hand utensil for holding a citrus fruit including a bowl-shaped cover, a plurality of gripping arms within the cover and movably inwardly and outwardly to grip and release the piece of fruit; the arms being displaceable endwise outwardly to release the fruit; there being means to spread the arms apart as they are longitudinally displaced; and a push button movable relative to the cover to displace the arms endwise outwardly.

Abstract: A juice squeezer for citrus fruits including a base housing or receptacle, a fruit flesh strainer over the receptacle, a squeezer cone above the strainer, and a cleaning element overlying the strainer, the strainer and cleaning element having relative movement with respect to each other.

Abstract: A kitchen weighing balance has a scale carrier, rotatably adjustable about a vertical axis, which provides a dial face having therein a plurality of graduated scales for co-acting with an angularly movable weight indicator pointer visible through a transparent window. At least some of the graduated scales are grouped in radially spaced relationship in different angular segments of the dial face and are calibrated in weight equivalent calorie units or standard bulk volume units for different pre-selected groups of foodstuffs, and they can be selectively brought into co-acting relationship with the pointer, throughout the operative range of pointer deflection, by positional adjustment of the scale carrier. The scale carrier is a circular ring mounted on a circular base frame of the balance casing which protrudes radially with respect to an upstanding central tubular portion enclosing the weighing mechanism.

Abstract: A holder for a tape cassette including a flat, thin and elongate housing to contain a tape cassette, a locking facility in the housing for retaining the tape cassette in the housing, an ejector resiliently urging the tape cassette out of the housing in a pivotal or swinging motion on an axis parallel to the axes of the tape coils, the ejector using leaf or coil springs which bear against a subframe or cover for the housing or which bear directly against the cassette.

Abstract: A citrus fruit squeezer having upstanding squeezer cones above a strainer and receptacle, the cones being symmetrically arranged for simultaneous use by a person with both hands.

Abstract: A citrus fruit halving device comprising a holder and blade both of plastic and formed integrally and of one piece with each other, the blade having a sawtooth upper edge disposed adjacent the upper portions of the side walls of the holder, the holder forming a juice-confining chamber at its bottom and having enlarged and generally circular recesses in the side walls, adequate in size to receive the citrus fruits when thrust downwardly over the blade with a slight rotation to halve the fruit, the recess having a depth below the top edge of the blade nearly as deep as the diameter of the fruit so that the fruit may be halved in one downward thrusting motion with slight rotation.

Abstract: A food comminuting device comprises a bowl type receptacle in combination with a comminuting appliance designed to engage and fit over the open mouth of the bowl. The comminuting appliance has a frame which carries a plurality of comminuting units having different comminuting characteristics which can selectively be moved and brought into use in a predetermined operative working position such that the fragments of comminuted food fall freely into the bowl. The frame also provides a protective guard shielding at least the comminuting unit or units not in use thereby reducing risk of accidental contact of the latter with the user of the device, and guide means for guiding food bodies manually reciprocated in engagement with a selected comminuting unit in the operative working position.

Abstract: A container for tape cassettes of the type which have broad flat surfaces adjoining a longitudinal edge through which the tape is exposed; and wherein the cassette has broad rib-like trapezoidal bosses on each of the broad flat surfaces of the cassette; a container for such cassettes with a slide to carry the cassette into and out of the housing, the bottom wall, whether it be on the housing or the slide, having an opening to receive the trapezoidal boss of the cassette; and the top wall may also have an opening to receive the adjacent trapezoidal boss of the cassette; the carrier slide having guiding means at its opposite sides to guide with the housing at a location outwardly beyond the ends of the bosses on the cassette.

Abstract: A housing with one side open to form an entrance for a tape cassette, a slider within the housing and movable toward and away from the entrance, a spring pressing the slider toward the entrance, a latch retaining the spring cassette in the housing against the pressure of said spring, reel-retaining inserts for insertion into the hub of the tape spools, the inward and outward movement relative to the spool hubs being controlled by movement of the slider in the housing, in certain instances the insert being mounted on the slider and in other instances the insert being mounted on the housing.

Abstract: A holder for tape cassettes and having a thin and flat housing and one narrow side through which the cassette is inserted. A leaf spring in the housing to thrust the cassette outwardly through the entrance, the leaf spring being arranged to be retained in the housing in flexed condition and essentially locked in tensioned position, and a spring-pressed element retaining the cassette in the housing adjacent the tensioned ejection member or spring.

Abstract: A holder for tape cassettes comprising a long, thin, flat housing having one side opening to form an entrance for a tape cartridge cassette to be inserted therein, there being a spring in strip or leaf form arched at the bottom of the housing in engagement with the cassette to thrust the cassette outward through the entrance, one end of the strip being secured adjacent the bottom of the housing, the other end being shaped to form a lock to retain the front corner of the cassette in the housing and being retractable away from the entrance as the strip is arched during ejection of the cassette.

Abstract: A holder for a tape cassette forming a U-shaped housing with shanks to fit over the projections which laterally flank the long open side of the cassette, the holder having one end wall and a spring bearing against the end wall to urge the cassette longitudinally of the housing, the other end of the housing having a latch retaining the cassette in the housing, and arms and cams which fit into the tape reels of the cassette.