Abstract: An apparatus is described that permits a user to quickly and effortlessly separate an egg shell from the body of a hard-boiled egg. The apparatus has a hollow body into which an egg is inserted, a convex shaped bottom section and a convex shaped top portion. Additionally, the interior surface of the hollow body has a number of protrusions that contribute to peeling action. Eggs are inserted into the apparatus, water is added, the apparatus is sealed, the user agitates the apparatus for a short time, and then pours out the separated egg and egg shell along with the water.

Abstract: An egg shell-piercing device pierces an egg shell and includes a combination skirt-handle construction and a pointed, shell-piercing member. The skirt-handle construction includes a skirt portion and a handle portion. The skirt portion has an inner concave surface for receiving a convex contour of an egg shell. The inner concave surface has an inner surface depth and a threaded female structure. The shell-piercing member has a pointed end and a threaded end. The threaded end is threadably connected to the skirt-handle construction via the threaded female structure and includes a shell-piercing length. The inner surface depth is greater than the shell-piercing length. The inner concave surface receives a select egg shell and the shell-piercing member pierces the select egg shell as it is received.

Abstract: A hand-held, manually operated seed shucking appliance enables a food preparer to remove the seed coverings of black-eyed peas from their kernels. A spring and piston inside a chamber are arranged to compress a load of pre-soaked black-eyed peas against a shuttle rasp threaded between side slots. As a user manipulates the shuttle rasp, the shucks are scraped off the seeds by a scraping surface and both pass through the side slots. The piston is configured to be cocked back such that the chamber can be loaded through one end with a fresh charge of black-eyed peas.

Abstract: Our invention is used to Open Pistachio Nut Shells. The device is placed into the split end of the Pistachio nut and when light pressure is applied the nut will split open and the nut kernel is easily removed. Our invention is made of food grade stainless steel, for ease of cleaning and sanitation. and will keep from damaging your fingernails.

Abstract: A handheld pistachio nut opener that is box-shaped comprising an upper and lower piece, each with one protrusion that are oriented vertically but aligned horizontally and inserted into an open or partially open pistachio nut, and through manual compression of the apparatus between the thumb and forefinger, the protrusions travelling in opposite directions through translational vertical motion while remaining engaged with the pistachio nut shell halves until the shell halves break apart into two disjoined pieces revealing the edible portion inside, the arcs of the protrusions protecting the edible portion from being damaged.

Abstract: This invention is directed toward a nutshell cracker and method of use. The nutshell cracker has three or more cracking members, each with a concave cracking surface, a central slot on its top with eyelets on either side. The 3-D design and curvature of the invention make it stylish, sleek, and attractive, and suitable for storage upon a table or kitchen countertop. The cracking members rotate about the connecting member, surrounding the nut on three or more sides, thereby allowing the user to apply less pressure per cracking member to achieve the same overall pressure upon the nutshell as would be applied through use of a traditional nutcracker. Having cracking members on three or more sides also increases the ability of the invention to constrain the nutshell during cracking and decreases the chances that once cracked, the actual nut will squirt out the side and fall on the floor.

Abstract: A shellfish utensil with a handle portion and at least one substantially circular disk attached at one end of the handle portion. The diameter of the disk is configured to be less than the diameter of an exoskeleton section of the shellfish appendage. Optionally the utensil can have a second substantially circular disk of a different diameter to the disk attached at a second end of the handle portion, or even come in a set having various diameters of between, for example, 0.5 and 1.25 centimeters. The disk can be attached to the handle at the center of the disk or at the edge. Alternate embodiments of the present invention can optionally include scissors, hook blades, crab crackers, and the like.

Abstract: A utensil for liberating the contents of an egg from the shell of the egg. The utensil includes an egg support for holding the egg and a shell cracker formation for cracking the shell of the egg held by the egg support, the shell cracker formation being moveable between a rest position and a crack position. The utensil further includes an actuator for connection to the shell cracker formation, the actuator being moveable between a first position and a second position wherein movement of the actuator from its first position to its second position will cause the shell cracker formation to move from its rest position to its crack position.

Abstract: A coconut splitting device has a lowering means to lower a coconut onto blades. The blades splitting the coconut. A liquid container to collect liquid from the split coconut.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pill splitter. The pill splitter includes a main body with a top housing and a bottom housing having a blade mounted thereto. The top housing has a slot defined therein for receipt of the blade. The top housing moves relative to the bottom housing between a protected position and a cutting position. In the protected position, the top housing resides in front of the blade to prevent a user from contacting the blade. In one embodiment, a retainer moves between the blade mount and the bottom surface of the pill seat to prevent movement thereof. In the cutting position, the blade is routed through the slot in the top housing thereby exposing a cutting edge thereof for cutting a pill. The retainer clears from between the blade mount and the bottom source of the pill seat to allow movement thereof.

Abstract: An egg cracking device and method that includes (i) a rod having a proximal end and a distal end and (ii) a hollow body having a predetermined mass and slidably arranged around the rod. Alternatively, the egg cracking device includes (i) a hollow body having an edge and designed to be disposed over and about an end portion of an egg, (ii) a rod connected to the hollow body and arranged such that the center of the rod and the center of the hollow body are aligned by their longitudinal axes, and (iii) an object slidably arranged around the rod.

Abstract: A combination utensil for preparing and eating crustaceans comprising an elongated handle portion having opposing longitudinal ends; a crustacean shell breaking tool extending integrally from one of the longitudinal ends; and a fork extending integrally from a remaining one of the two longitudinal heads.

Abstract: A combination utensil for preparing and eating crustaceans comprising an elongated handle portion having opposing longitudinal ends; a crustacean shell breaking tool extending integrally from one of the longitudinal ends; and a fork extending integrally from a remaining one of the two longitudinal heads.

Abstract: A handheld oyster and clam opener includes a pair of cooperating pivotal members. One member includes a handle and a curved toothed portion to hold a clam or oyster in position at one end. The opposing member includes a handle and a knife-like wedge along which a protruding wedge is slidable. The protruding wedge is used to open oysters and is moved to one end to open clams with the knife-like wedge both operations requiring a single stroke. A scoop mounted to the toothed portion is used to remove the clam or oyster from the shell.

Abstract: A hand tool to facilitate removing the shell from a hard boiled egg. The tool has an egg shell ripper prong disposed between a spaced apart pair of members that engage the outer surface of the egg shell and limit the depth of penetration of the ripper prong.

Abstract: A shellfish cutting utensil which has first and second elongated members pivotally connected together, each of the members having a jaw and a handle, one of the jaws having a recess or notch formed on an edge thereof and having a cutting edge. The cutting edge formed on the notch or recess can be utilized with a cutting edge on the other member in a scissors like movement for opening the shell of a shellfish.

Abstract: A hand tool to facilitate removing the shell from a hard boiled egg. The tool has an egg shell ripper prong disposed between a spaced apart pair of members that engage the outer surface of the egg shell and limit the depth of penetration of the ripper prong.

Abstract: An opener for pistachio nuts which uses a multiple prong approach to remove the shell halves from a pistachio nut. By using a multiple prong approach which start in a juxtapose position, the pistachio nut is opened with an evenly applied force. The multiple prong approach also provides a space in which the meat of the nut can be captured upon returning to a closed position. The ability to grab the meat of the nut upon returning to the closed position is the reason that the name of “Pistachio Nut Extractor” was chosen over “Pistachio Nut Opener”.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a bivalve shellfish opening knife, including: a handle portion; a blade portion, having front and rear edges, extending from one end of the handle portion; a rear blade edge guard hingedly attached to the blade portion near a proximal end thereof in proximity to a proximal end of the handle portion; and the rear blade edge guard having defined therein a channel sized to accommodate therein the rear edge of the blade portion when the rear blade edge guard is rotated against the blade portion.

Abstract: A pistachio sheller including a base having an upwardly extending shaft with a flat narrow blade adapted to be received in the crack of a pistachio shell. A cylinder is rotatably attached to the base and includes an oval-shaped top opening adjacent the flat narrow tip. A pistachio shell is received in the oval opening with the crack directed down to engage the blade. Rotation of the base with respect to the cylinder splits the pistachio shell open.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing an eggshell, which provides a body and handle for holding an egg softly by linkage between them, a removing plate for breaking the eggshell with the handle, an operating device for expanding the removing plate so as to extract the contents in the egg so that the convenience in removing the eggshell is proposed, the eggshells are removed easily and rapidly, and most of all, the sanitation in removing the eggshell is improved.

Abstract: An egg poker device is disclosed for piercing a hole in a shell of an egg to be boiled to facilitate removal of the shell. The device includes a first member having a base and a wall extending away from the base such that the base and the wall define therebetween a cavity. A disc shaped spring is disposed within the cavity and adjacent to the base, the spring having a central portion. The spring also defines a peripheral edge. The first end of a rod is secured to the central portion of the spring and a second end of the rod defines a point for piercing the hole in the shell of the egg. A second member slidably cooperates with the first member. The second member includes a support for supporting the egg, the support defining a hole for the slidable passage therethrough of the point of the rod. A skirt portion extends from the support such that the skirt portion slidably cooperates with the wall. The skirt portion defines a distal end which cooperates with the peripheral edge of the spring.

Abstract: An egg breaking knife used in an egg breaking device which increases the yield of the egg breaking device. The upper edge of the egg breaking knife is in a “V” shape. The “V” shape creates a lower drainage point to eliminate any “damming” of egg shell contents which may occur in the egg shell halves. The knife edge of the egg breaking knife of the present invention may also include a vertical slot or opening, preferably at the vertex or intersection point of the “V” shape, which assists in preventing “damming” of egg contents and enhances the drainage of egg contents from the egg shell halves. The lower edge of the egg breaking knife of the present invention may include a drip point, preferably located below the vertical slot, which serves to collect all egg content drippage at a single location, to ensure that a minimal amount of egg content drippage remain adhered to the egg breaking knife during egg content dumping.