Abstract: A fruit cutter including a tubular body formed at an upper inner side with a pair of L-shaped grooves, a handle having a cylindrical lower portion provided with a pair of protuberances each engaged with one of the L-shaped grooves of the tubular body, a guide plate slantwise fitted at a lower part of the tubular body, an upper positioning member slantwise fitted at a lower part of the tubular body and arranged opposite to the guide plate, a lower positioning member slantwise fitted at a lower part of the tubular body under the upper positioning member, and a cutting member slidably engaged between the upper and the lower positioning members.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum container and in particular to one including an inner container, an outer container receiving said inner container, a lid provided with a packing formed with an outer annular groove for receiving an upper rim of said outer container and an inner annular groove for receiving an upper rim of said inner container, a check valve mounted on a central portion of said lid, a control valve composed of two one-way valves, and a vacuum extractor including a sleeve and a seat engaged with the lower end of said sleeve, said sleeve being a tubular member in which is inserted a piston, said piston having a lower end formed with an upper flange and a lower flange between which is fitted a leak-proof gasket, said upper flange being formed with a pair of exhaust openings.