Abstract: The knife attachment to prevent food from sticking is configured for use with a knife blade. The knife attachment to prevent food from sticking is a non-stick structure. A first instantiation of the knife attachment to prevent food from sticking attaches to the face of the blade with the greatest surface area. An optional second instantiation of the knife attachment to prevent food from sticking attaches to the face of the blade with the second greatest surface area. The knife attachment to prevent food from sticking attaches to the blade such that the knife attachment to prevent food from sticking presents a non-stick surface as the exterior surface of the blade. The knife attachment to prevent food from sticking further comprises a scraping structure. The scraping structure facilitates the movement of an object, such as a foodstuff, along a horizontal surface.

Abstract: A FOOD SLOTTING DEVICE includes a holding unit, an assembly of slicing blades arranged in a perpendicular fashion, and an affixed cover piece, for creating an elongated cross-hatch pattern of perpendicular slots by partially slicing into one or more surface areas on the body of a food product, generally of an elongated nature, such as a hot dog, wiener, frankfurter, sausage or the like through the directional application of force, such as the METHOD of carrying out such partial slicing denotes. Thereafter the partially sliced food product is easily removed from the slicing blades assembly of the FOOD SLOTTING DEVICE prior to cooking, grilling, or further processing. The slots prevent bursting by permitting gases generated by the cooking process to escape, allowing penetration of the heat to the center of the food product providing quicker cooking thereof, thereby providing for a more palatable and pleasant looking food product.

Abstract: A food processing system includes a base and an actuator that is releasably mounted to the base. The actuator may have an unactuated position and an actuated position. Numerous accessories each may be individually and interchangeably mountable to and releasable from at least one of the base and the actuator. Each attachment may perform a food processing function when the actuator is moved from the unactuated position to the actuated position.

Abstract: A food cutting device with a handle adapted to be held in a user's hand and a detachable cutting wheel for cutting a food item, the detachable cutting wheel has a circular blade and an axle projecting therefrom, the handle has a retaining pincer adapted to grasp the axle, allowing the detachable cutting wheel to freely rotate therein, and has a pincer gap which allows the axle to be alternatively inserted or removed. The axle has a retaining flange positioned parallel to the circular blade, preventing lateral shifting of the detachable cutting wheel by abutment between the circular blade, the retaining flange, and the retaining pincer positioned therebetween. The handle further has an upper blade guard and a lower blade guard adapted to protect the user's hand from the circular blade.

Abstract: A measuring cup includes a scraper bar that is slide-ably affixed to the upper edges of the side walls of the measuring cup, allowing a user to simply slide the scraper bar forward and backward to scrape any excess granular foodstuff back into a bulk container, leaving a true and accurate amount of foodstuff inside the measuring cup.

Abstract: A food chopper having a handle, a first side cutting blade, a second side cutting blade and a central cutting blade. The first side cutting blade is attached to the handle. The second side cutting blade is attached to the handle in a spaced-apart relationship with respect to the first side cutting blade. The central cutting blade is operably attached to the handle intermediate the first side cutting blade and the second side cutting blade for movement between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. The central cutting blade is biased to the extended configuration. At least one of the first side cutting blade and the second side cutting blade is curved.

Abstract: A food processing system includes a base and an actuator that is releasably mounted to the base. The actuator may have an unactuated position and an actuated position. Numerous accessories each may be individually and interchangeably mountable to and releasable from at least one of the base and the actuator. Each attachment may perform a food processing function when the actuator is moved from the unactuated position to the actuated position.

Abstract: A spatula is disclosed that is used to implement a food preparation method having the object of forming a roll of ice-cream, in which a quantity of food product in liquid or creamy state, consisting of a basic preparation for ice-cream, is spread on a controlled cooling plane at a temperature of about ?18° C., to form in a few seconds a layer of ice-cream, changed into solid or pasty state, which is subsequently scraped away by the spatula, the latter having an upper side from which a protrusion emerges that, during scraping, meets the scraped-away ice-cream and deflects the ice-cream, promoting the rolling up thereof.

Abstract: A handheld solid sample pipette device includes a pipette tube with a number of sharpened teeth adapted to pierce solid or substantially solid sample material, the pipette tube adapted to be matingly attached to a device that includes a handle, a plunger, and a piston within a shell of the device. A spring may be positioned to return the plunger to a non-depressed position following depression of the plunger. A sample of the material can be ejected from the handheld device. The handheld device may further include a shear ring apparatus, that in-turn includes a tube portion, a plurality of shear ring teeth, and a knobbed plate for rotating the shear ring. Following insertion of the pipette with sharpened teeth into the sample, the shear ring apparatus is pressed into the sample as well, such that the shear ring tube, which is slidingly engaged about the pipette tube, slides over the pipette tube into the sample.

Abstract: A novel and useful food chopper that includes a cutter having cutting edges arranged to form one or more cells and spring loaded plungers disposed and supported within the cells. The plungers include wipers extending around the circumference of the plungers at or near their bottoms. During a chopping cycle, the plungers are pushed back by the food to be chopped and compress their associated spring. When released, the wipers on each plunger squeegee the inner walls of the cell thereby achieving a cleaning action. Chopped food waste is minimized by careful placement of the wipers on the body of the plungers, placement of the plungers within the cells and by having a substantially flat bottom surface of the plungers which are mostly flush with the cutting edges of the cutter. Use of the wiper permits the food chopper to achieve very efficient chopping with minimal waste and a self-cleaning mechanism.

Abstract: A serving utensil comprises a handle having a gripping portion that is gripped by the user, A serving receptacle is operatively connected to the handle. There is mounted to the serving utensil a serving scraper having a resilient arm with a bowed shape. The resilient arm has a scraping end and a mounting end. A mounting means at the mounting end is for mounting the resilient arm to the serving utensil forwardly of the gripping portion of the utensil used to grip the utensil and rearwardly of the serving-receptacle.

Abstract: A utility knife includes a handle, a blade holder assembly, a pair of resilient blade wiper members, and a spreader. The blade holder assembly is constructed and arranged to hold a blade at a position of use wherein the blade projects through an opening at a front end of the handle. The pair of resilient blade wiper members are biased towards one another and constructed and arranged to remove debris from side surfaces of the blade, which debris would otherwise be brought into an interior space of the handle when the blade is retracted into the front end of the handle through the opening. The spreader is constructed and arranged to spread the resilient blade wiper members apart to facilitate removal of the blade from the handle when the blade is in a blade change position.

Abstract: A serving utensil comprises a handle having a gripping portion that is gripped by the user. A serving receptacle is operatively connected to the handle. There is mounted to the serving utensil a serving scraper having a resilient arm with a bowed shape. The resilient arm has a scraping end and a mounting end. A mounting means at the mounting end is for mounting the resilient arm to the serving utensil forwardly of the gripping portion of the utensil used to grip the utensil and rearwardly of the serving receptacle. A scraper-remover is disposed at the scraper end of the resilient arm so that food can be scraped off of the food receptacle of the utensil when the serving scraper is actuated by the user.

Abstract: A food chopper having an integrated cutting surface for a food chopper is provided. The integrated cutting surface can be incorporated into food chopping compartment of the chopper and may include a window for allowing visual inspection of the chopped food while still within the compartment. The food chopper includes blade mechanism having at least one V-shaped blade and a blade cover/cleaner configured to maintain the at least one V-shaped blade covered from user exposure even when the food chopping compartment is removed from the chopper.

Abstract: A dispensing utensil includes a body extending between a front end and a back end, and having a handle and a substance-holding end portion having a width and a length. A substance pushing member is for removing substance from the substance-holding end portion of the body. An arm has a front end and a back end, and is connected adjacent the front end to the substance pushing member and is connected adjacent the back end to the handle. The substance pushing member is movable along the substance-holding end portion between a rest position and a dispensing position. The distance between the rest position and the flexed dispensing position includes a substantial portion of the substance-holding end portion.

Abstract: A powered hand tool includes a motor, a cutting member drivable to cut a workpiece, and a drive system interconnecting the motor and the cutting member and operable to drive the cutting member in response to operation of the motor. A housing at least partially encloses the cutting member and the motor and a debris removal system is movable between a first position and a second position. The debris removal system is operable to clean a portion of the drive system when in the second position. The debris removal system includes an abrasive member, an automatic actuator, and a sensor operable to selectively generate a signal. The automatic actuator is movable between an actuated position in which the abrasive member moves to the second position and a non-actuated position in which the abrasive member moves to the first position in response to the sensor.

Abstract: A removably attachable, multifunctional Knife Swiper (10) for a utensil such as a kitchen knife is provided comprising a handle (20), an arm (30), and a wiper (40). The device is shaped in such a fashion as to have minimal effect on normal cutting behavior, and provides several benefits to the user, such as providing means to quickly and more safely remove food remnants stuck to the blade of the knife, and providing means for the user to place a knife with a Knife Swiper attached to it down on a surface so that the knife rests with its blade elevated off the surface.

Abstract: A utensil has first and second arm members of substantially the same size and shape. Each arm member has a head section and a handle section. The head sections are concave or scoop-like in configuration and are connected by a rotatable hinge which permits rotation of the arm members in relation to each other. The head section of the first arm members has elongated openings through which spreadable food can be expelled. The head section of the second arm member is solid. With the first arm member nested within the second arm member, spreadable food is scooped onto the utensil, specifically on the top surface of the first arm member. Rotation of the second arm member around the first arm member such that the second arm member is now nested within the first arm member, causes the food to be expelled from the openings in the first arm member, where the food can be easily spread on bread and or food items.

Abstract: A motorized apparatus to simultaneously excise, retrieve, temporarily store and transport a sample of material has a hollow clamshell casing with a blended contoured grip for the fingers, a horizontal extension to eliminate slippage when held in a user's hand, and a flange bottom portion from which a removable cutting tool threaded to a drive shaft extends downwards. Within the clamshell casing an electric motor is mounted which drives, via gears, a drive shaft which rotates a cutting tool threaded to the distal end of the drive shaft. The end of the cutting tool, distal from the clamshell casing, forms a cutting edge circumscribing a circular region. An ejection rod slides reciprocally within the cutting tool between a stowed position and an expulsion position.

Abstract: A removably attachable, multifunctional Knife Swiper (10) for a utensil such as a kitchen knife is provided comprising a handle (20), an arm (30), and a wiper (40). The device is shaped in such a fashion as to have minimal effect on normal cutting behavior, and provides several benefits to the user, such as providing means to quickly and more safely remove food remnants stuck to the blade of the knife, and providing means for the user to place a knife with a Knife Swiper attached to it down on a surface so that the knife rests with its blade elevated off the surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a portion-taker device for taking a substance, the device including at least one measuring scoop, which scoop comprises: a frame; and a flap mounted to pivot relative to the frame and co-operating with it to define, in a first position, the bottom of a cavity that it used for taking the substance; the frame being arranged in such a manner as to enable a user to exert thrust on the flap on its side opposite from the cavity so as to reduce the volume thereof until the flap reaches a second position in which the volume of the cavity is substantially zero.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pliers for removing an insulating layer of an electrical cable, in particular a coaxial cable. The inventive pliers comprise a cutting element. The distance of the cutting element from a seat for the cable is adjustable. Furthermore, the cutting element has a degree of freedom in a circumferential direction of the coaxial cable relative to the seat.

Abstract: A hulling device for removing the stem and leaves on small fruits, such as strawberries, the device having an ergonomic handle and a tubular cutting member, is set forth herein. The cutting member is comprised of a cutting end and is securely attached to the handle at a shoulder which assists in preventing complete coring of the fruit. The tubular cutting member having a length which is less than the length of the handle also facilitates prevention of coring edible fruit flesh from the strawberry.

Abstract: A utensil for cutting and serving pastry or similar goods has operating handles made in form of tabs similar to ordinary scissors for fitting in operator's fingers, a spatula simultaneously used for cutting pastry or similar goods and holding a sliced piece and rigidly connected to the upper operating handle, blades bent in a form of a frame rigidly connected to the lower operating handle, a pusher for serving a piece of pastry or similar goods to a serving plate and a lever mechanism made in a form of pantograph for moving the pusher.

Abstract: A food slicer 10 of the present invention contains a hollow body 12 having an inner wall 13 defining an interior 17 and an outer wall 15 for containment of a food product therein. A plurality of blades 32 extends across the interior 17 of the body thereby cutting a food product biased against the blades 32 into a plurality of portions.

Abstract: A spoon includes a handle and a bowl disposed on one end of a handle. The bowl includes a curved frame and a pliable section or portion secured to the frame, the pliable section being movable between a first position for containing the food and a second position where the bowl is more shallow than when in the first position. An actuating link extends between the handle and the pliable section. The actuating link is movable by an actuator, and the movement of the actuator causes the actuating link to move the pliable section of the bowl. Food contained within the bowl can be displaced or effectively transferred from the bowl into the mouth of an infant or another person in response to the actuator and actuating link being moved.

Abstract: A dispensing utensil comprises a body extending between a front end and a back end, and having a handle and a substance-holding end portion having a width and a length. A substance pushing member is for removing substance from the substance-holding end portion of the body. An arm has a front end and a back end, and is connected adjacent the front end to the substance pushing member and is connected adjacent the back end to the handle. The substance pushing member is movable along the substance-holding end portion between a rest position and a dispensing position. The distance between the rest position and the flexed dispensing position comprises a substantial portion of the substance-holding end portion.

Abstract: A pumpkin cutting apparatus includes a tubular shaft and a cutter releasably coupled to one end thereof, the cutter having a continuous side wall capable of cutting a pumpkin and retaining the cut portion. A plunger shaft extending through the tubular shaft and slides upwardly therethrough and extends through a top opening as the cutter cuts into a pumpkin. Once a cut is complete, the plunger shaft may be pushed back down into the tubular shaft so as to eject the cut portion from the cutter. The apparatus includes an elastomeric shell for surrounding and stabilizing a pumpkin. A transparent dome defining an aperture is selectively situated atop the shell. The tubular shaft and aperture have complementary threads so that the shaft may be rotated to force the cutter into the pumpkin, the cutter being rotatably coupled to the tubular shaft so as not to rotate therewith.

Abstract: A device for removing a pill from its package including a lower base portion having a generally rectangular configuration. The lower base portion has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, and opposed side walls. The front wall has an upper arm and a lower arm extending outwardly therefrom whereby the upper arm is contiguous with the top wall and the lower arm is contiguous with the bottom wall. The upper arm has an aperture therethrough. An upper arm portion is hingedly coupled with the lower base portion. The upper arm portion is comprised of an elongated central section, a downwardly turned back portion, and a forward head portion. The forward head portion has a downwardly extending protrusion secured thereto. The protrusion is aligned with the aperture in the upper arm of the lower base portion.

Abstract: A hand held eating utensil having a pair of scissors like handles pivotally connected to each other at approximately their midpoints. A spoon bowl is at the forward end of one of the handles and a pusher mechanism shaped as an animal head is pivotally connected to the forward end of the other handle. As the rear ends of the handles are moved toward each other, the forward portion of the animal head dips down into the spoon bowl and pushes the food contents in the bowl forward out of the bowl. The animal head pivots downward when the handles are spread apart to minimize the chance of a child poking himself with the front end of the animal head.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method of masonary cutting and to the structure of a novel tool. The tool has twin outwardly splayed and flared chisel like blades which join the handle at a recess groove for waste ejection. The blades are beveled only on their upper edges and are driven forward by hammering on the remove handle end. The method comprises attacking a flat masonary surface at an angle greater than 5 degrees (preferably at 13 degrees) with twin divergent cutting edges beveled only on the upper surfaces and having a flat lower surface. Material is imploded between the blades and ejected at the recess groove without dust formation.

Abstract: A system for cutting and spraying a plurality of resin strands with an emulsion. The system includes a spray gun that has a cutter assembly that cuts a single resin thread into a plurality of individual strands. The cutter assembly is constructed to cut the strands into varying lengths. The strands are blown from the gun by a housing that is connected to a source of pressurized air. The housing has a pair of openings that are adapted to blow the strands parallel with the gun, so that the resin lies flat on the working surface. The gun also has a pair of nozzles attached to the housing and coupled to a progressive cavity pump that supplies an emulsion. The nozzles are adapted to spray the emulsion into the path of the resin spray, so that the resin and emulsion are mixed onto the working surface.

Abstract: A system for cutting and spraying a plurality of resin strands with an emulsion. The system includes a spray gun that has a cutter assembly that cuts a single resin thread into a plurality of individual strands. The cutter assembly is constructed to cut the strands into varying lengths. The strands are blown from the gun by a housing that is connected to a source of pressurized air. The housing has a pair of openings that are adapted to blow the strands parallel with the gun, so that the resin lies flat on the working surface. The gun also has a pair of nozzles attached to the housing and coupled to a progressive cavity pump that supplies an emulsion. The nozzles are adapted to spray the emulsion into the path of the resin spray, so that the resin and emulsion are mixed onto the working surface.

Abstract: A device for cutting and engaging a doughy material having a deformable consistency, forming a material, transferring the shape from a first location to a second location and disengaging the shape. The device includes a cutting edge carried by a housing for cutting an outline of the shape, a plunger for positively engaging a cut surface of the material to aid in transferring the material from a first location to a second location, recesses and raised shapes located on the plunger for imprinting an exposed surface of the material and aiding in engaging the material, and a handle connected to the plunger for manually actuating the device.

Abstract: A hand-held, manually operated book index notch cutter is placed in the book to be notched. The notch cutter has a cylindrical cutting member (405) which moves parallel to and rotates around its axis. The axis of the cylinder is perpendicular to the book leaves being notched. The cutting member rotates and advances within a cutter guide (200), which is attached to a thin baseplate (100). The upper surface of the baseplate is a resilient platen (102) on which rests the stack of book leaves to be cut. These leaves are adjusted in fan and lateral angle with the help of a leaf guide (300), which is movable to allow a range of notch depths. The cutting member is attached to a knob (401) which is pressed and turned. Inside this cutting member-knob assembly is a spring-loaded ejector assembly (500). After a notch is cut, the ejector button (501) is pressed, capturing the paper cuttings and raising the cutting member to the ready position.

Abstract: A solder paste applicator for dispensing a tin/lead solder in a uniform, homogeneous fashion. The solder paste applicator comprises both a mixing assembly and a plunger assembly. The mixing assembly mixes the solder until it is homogeneous and the plunger assembly is used to dispense the solder. The solder paste applicator has a tubular section, a trough section terminating in a scoop, and a collar received at the intersection of the tubular section and the trough section. The mixing assembly is received in the tubular section and is reciprocated to mix the solder.

Abstract: Apparatus for inserting a sandwich into a receptacle, includes a first square plate; a second square plate; a substantially U-shaped connecting section having free ends connected to respective edges of said first and second plates so as to maintain the first and second plates in a substantially parallel, spaced relation, while permitting movement of the first and second plates toward and away from each other; an ejector device for ejecting a sandwich from between the first and second plates, the ejector device including an ejector plate positioned between the first and second plates, the ejector plate having a width substantially equal to that of the first and second plates and a height substantially equal to that of a sandwich to be ejected from therebetween, an elongated leg extending from the ejector plate, a peg extending through a slot in one arm of the connecting section and a button connected to the opposite end of the peg so as to slidably retain the peg in the slot in the connecting section in order

Abstract: A device for inserting a filling into a taco shell includes a base portion, a top portion, and an ejector portion slidably mounted on the base portion. The base portion includes an elongated handle portion having a lengthwise axis and a scoop portion with the scoop portion being substantially triangular. The handle portion is joined to the scoop portion at the vertex of the scoop portion. The top portion is movable on the base portion between a filling position and an emptied position and comprises an elongated plunger portion and an ejector portion which is substantially arcuate with the plunger portion being joined to the ejector portion at the center point of the ejector portion.

Abstract: An improved two component ice cream scoop made of plastic, includes a bowl portion and handle portion integrally connected, the handle portion further includes an ejecting lever which is biased by a tongue spring, wherein the head portion of the ejecting lever is adjacent to the inside of said bowl portion and can be moved up when the tail portion of said ejecting lever is pressed, for pushing the ice cream out of the bowl.

Abstract: The tool comprises two substantially annular and coaxial blades, an inner one and an outer one respectively, each of which has a frontal cutting edge, and a handgrip for enabling the blades to be pushed into the fruit and possibly rotated so as to separate the core and the skin from the fleshy part through the action of the cutting edge of the inner blade and the cutting edge of the outer blade, respectively. Each blade has associated elongate parts for connecting it to the handgrip which, together with the blades themselves, constitute regions of a single tubular body substantially free from roughness.

Abstract: A serving utensil for cakes and pies has a broad, flat blade with a slanted, upwardly extending rear portion and a tang extending rearwardly therefrom. An extendable planar scraper element is positioned in front of the slanted rear portion of the blade with a stem extending rearwardly through an opening in the slanted portion of the blade under the tang with a spring connected to the stem and to the tang to bias the scraper rearwardly. The scraper is normally positioned above the surface of the blade, but is is moveable downard to the blade and forward by a user's thumb pressure. A removable handle is slideably mounted on the tang and encloses the scraper stem and spring under the tang.

Abstract: A pineapple cutter is provided with a cylindrical body 1 having a cutter edge 1a at the circumference end portion of the lower end, a pair of handles 5, 5 connected to the outer surface of said cylindrical body, a pressing sheet mounted on the inner portion of said cylindrical body 3 slidably in the vertical direction, and a pushing member secured to the upper portion of the cylindrical body connected with the pressing sheet.A pineapple is cut by being inserted into said cylindrical body 1.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ice-cream scoop including a semispherical bowl, a handle extending from and rigid with the bowl and an ejector pivotally mounted on the handle adjacent the bowl to separate the ball of ice-cream from the bowl. The bowl has a bottom opening and a slot communicating with the bottom opening and extending to the rim of the bowl. The handle is formed with a cavity adjacent the bowl, said cavity opening at the top and bottom of the handle and communicating with the slot. The ejector comprises an arcuate tongue conforming to the interior and exterior surfaces of the bowl and to the shape of the bottom opening and of the slot, so that when the tongue is bottomed in the bowl, it fills the bottom opening and the slot, and is substantially flush with both interior and exterior surfaces of the bowl. The ejector further includes a lever arm rigid with the tongue extending in the cavity of the handle and accessible from both the top and bottom of the handle.

Abstract: This invention relates to a kind of peel concentrating clearance box, in which a peeler is inset into the surface of a columnar box and upon paring, the peels will enter into the box along the slot of the peeler so as not to be thrown about. After the paring is finished, a top lid can be turned to open and a scrape plate follows the top lid to be pulled out and the scrape plate will empty all the peels collected in the box. This invention is not only easily operated but also can avoid a dirty situation.

Abstract: A cautery cleaning device including a thumb and fingertip manipulated support member with rubber-like properties through which a cautery blade is guided and in which scraping edges are supported and held in contact with the blade. The support member is conformed to fit onto the cautery pencil end adjacent the blade and is removably tethered thereto.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pair of pivotally connected handles extending through and defining a pair of coacting U-shaped cutting jaws. Each of the cutting jaws defines a cutting edge extending throughout the base and side legs of the U shape. The jaws have a closed position wherein one of the jaws is an inner jaw disposed within the other of the jaws, which is an outer jaw. The cutting edges are angulated in relation to each other so that each of the cutting edges defined by the legs of the respective jaws are not in coacting relationship before the bases of the corresponding jaws. Additionally, the cutting tool includes a knock-out member pivotally disposed within one of the U-shaped jaws for removing material severed by the jaws from the inside thereof.

Abstract: In combination with an instrument for taking tissue specimens which comprises a pair of movable jaws. One jaw is capable of being located within a cavity of the other jaw. The tissue specimen is to be located within the cavity. Also located within the cavity is a biasing means in the form of a leaf spring which is to exert a continuous bias upon the tissue specimen and, upon opening of the jaws, the tissue specimen is automatically moved to the upper end of the cavity to facilitate its removal therefrom.

Abstract: Gardening shears having holding members and cutting blades extending therefrom crossing at the location of a driving means with cutting blades having lines thereon, respectively, and the repelling member located adjacent to the cutting lines of blades whereby upon operation of the blades in opening and closing, the repelling member reciprocally swings from side to side between the cutting blades through the intermediary of the driving means.

Abstract: A lightweight, compact roving cutter for chopping fiberglass roving into short fiber segments, and used in conjunction with a hand-held resin spray gun, has a cutter roller carrying a plurality of blades, a back-up roller cooperating with the cutter roller and the blades thereof for breaking or cutting the roving, and an idler roller cooperating with the back-up roller for feeding roving between the cutter and the back-up roller. The back-up roller is mounted for movement toward and away from both the cutter and the idler rollers in substantially equal increments relative to each, and a positive displacement adjusting means is connected with the back-up roller for controlling the clearance between the back-up roller and both the cutter and the idler rollers, the adjusting means including a manually operable portion remote from said cutter, whereby an operator may conveniently and accurately adjust the clearances between the rollers while the cutter is operating.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for constructing bodies of glass-reinforced cement by a spraying process. The invention includes apparatus for improving the uniformity of distribution of glass fibers in the cement, and apparatus for preventing expensive and inconvenient interruptions in the process due to plugging of the cement gun nozzle.