Abstract: A blade for use in an osteotome or other cutting device. The blade may have, in sequence, a cutting portion, a transition portion, and a gripping portion, with the transition portion being located between the cutting portion and the gripping portion. The cutting portion may be planar and have at least one cutting edge. The gripping portion may be non-planar. The transition portion may be smoothly contoured. The non-planar nature of the gripping portion may provide increased rigidity of the blade. All of the blade may have uniform thickness of material. Also provided may be a chuck for gripping the blade. The chuck may have an upper nest and a lower nest that in combination closely fit around the gripping portion. The chuck may have a movable pin that locks the gripping portion into the chuck. A portion of the chuck may be spring-loaded.

Abstract: A baked good interior removal device facilitates removal of a soft interior of a baked good from an outer crust. The device includes a handle and an axle extending from the handle. A motor positioned within the handle selectively rotates the axle relative to the handle. A head is coupled to the axle. The head includes a cylindrical wall and a plurality of scoops extending outwardly from the cylindrical wall for engaging and removing an interior of a baked good from an exterior of the baked good as the head is rotated.

Abstract: A rotary knife fixture configured for use in a water knife cutting system includes a ring, defining an internal aperture, and at least two spaced, angularly offset, parallel groups of parallel helically twisted cutting blades, extending across the aperture. The ring is configured to be placed in fluid communication with a hydraulic feed conduit of the water knife cutting system and for rotary motion about a rotational axis extending through the aperture. The groups of parallel blades are oriented generally perpendicular to the rotational axis. Each cutting blade has a sharpened cutting edge at one side thereof and is twisted generally about a center point thereof to define a pair of cutting edges oriented in opposite-facing circumferential directions. A vegetable product, fed through the aperture at a product speed, and with the rotary knife fixture rotating at a rotational speed, is substantially simultaneously cut into multiple helically twisted pieces.

Abstract: A slicer device and a method of using a slicer device for slicing and removing a fleshy part of a watermelon surrounded by a rind. The device includes a cutter piece, a plurality of cutters and at least one support bar attached to an outer surface of the cutter piece. The cutter piece has an outer surface and an inner surface defining an interior for receiving the fleshy part of the watermelon. The plurality of cutters are within the interior of the cutter piece arranged to form a pattern with a plurality of openings, with each of the openings being defined between cutters or between at least one cutter and the inner surface of the cutter piece, such that the fleshy part of the watermelon within the rind is cut into multiple pieces with geometric shapes.

Abstract: A rotating blade food preparation device (10) for cutting, shaving, slicing, and peeling, vegetables and fruits, cheese, tofu, bread, and other food products, includes a handle (12), a frame element (16) connected to the handle (12), and a rotating blade assembly (28) operably secured to the frame. The rotating blade assembly (28) has one or more cutting elements (30) for cutting, slicing, shaving and peeling fruits, vegetables, cheese and other foods. The rotating blade assembly (28) is operably secured to the frame (16) by a shaft (18) allowing both movement and positioning of the blade assembly at various angles in relation to the frame (16), and fixing the rotating blade assembly (28) in a desired position for use.

Abstract: An avocado tool includes a handle having a first end and a second end, with a different tool head on each end. At the first end, the tool head is in the form of a tool configured for slicing avocados. At the second end, the tool head is in the form of a masher.

Abstract: An apple wedger for cutting fruits or vegetables into wedges or other desired shapes includes a slicer and a pusher, in which the slicer has a peripheral frame and internal cutting blades. The pusher is configured to be used to push at least partially sliced food items through the gaps between cutting blades. In some versions, the pusher is pivotally attached to the slicer.

Abstract: A device for cutting, peeling and slicing avocados and other fruits and vegetables includes a handle, a frame element connected to the handle, and a rotating blade assembly operably secured to the frame. The rotating blade assembly has one or more cutting elements for cutting, slicing and peeling. The rotating blade assembly is operably secured to the frame by a shaft allowing both movement and positioning of the blade assembly at various angles in relation to the frame, and fixing the rotating blade assembly in a desired position for use.

Abstract: A collapsible multiblade throwing weapon incorporates a first blade having a shank from which a blade portion extends with a butt portion extending from the shank opposite the blade portion. The shank incorporates an aperture for a first axle and an eyelet extending from the butt portion for a second axle. Second and third blades each have an aperture which receives the first axle for rotation of the blade on the axle and each blade has a closed position engagement cutout and an open position engagement cutout. First and second pawls, associated with the second and third blades respectively, each have an eyelet receiving the second axle. The pawls rotate about the second axle for resiliently engaging the closed position engagement cutout with the associated blade in a closed position and the open position engagement cutout with the associated blade in an open position.

Abstract: A sectioning device including a frame having a cutter deck with an opening disposed therethrough; a removable insert having an opening disposed therethrough, the removable insert positioned above the opening of the cutter deck such that the opening of the removable insert and the opening of the cutter deck are concentrically aligned; a cutter removably positioned on the removable insert; a press assembly positioned on the frame for pushing an item against and through the cutter; and an activator moving at least one of the cutter and the press assembly between a neutral position and a sectioning position in a single continuous motion, the press assembly and the cutter configured such that the item is sectioned upon movement from the neutral position to the sectioning position.

Abstract: A sectioning device for sectioning food and non-food items includes a frame, a cutter removably positioned on the frame and press means positioned on the frame for pushing an item against and through the cutter. The sectioning device also includes means for moving, in a single continuous motion, at least one of the cutter and the press means between a neutral position and a sectioning position. The press means and the cutter are configured such that an item to be sectioned, positioned between the cutter and the press means is sectioned in its entirety upon movement from the neutral position to the sectioning position.

Abstract: A specialized wood splitting tool and chopping block, used together, enable cutting kindling from ordinary firewood in an effective and safe manner. The splitting tool uses leverage in addition to downward momentum of the cutting head to split wood. The metal handle and metal cutting head are preferably formed from a single piece of steel, in a perpendicular configuration similar to an adze. A splitting wedge blade within the handle exerts transverse shear forces to enhance splitting, and flat upper surfaces of the cutting head and the handle near the joint provide a striking surface. A complimentary chopping block for bracing logs of various diameters in a steady upright position has a V-shaped recess that is open on one end. The chopping block provides resistance to the unique leverage of the splitting tool during the splitting action.

Abstract: An apple wedger for cutting fruits or vegetables into wedges or other desired shapes includes a slicer and a pusher, in which the slicer has a peripheral frame and internal cutting blades. The pusher is configured to be used to push at least partially sliced food items through the gaps between cutting blades. In some versions, the pusher is pivotally attached to the slicer.

Abstract: Cutter for a watermelon processing device. Circular blade separates watermelon from shell, when straight blades cut watermelon into slices. Handles provide easy grip to use device.

Abstract: A food cutting apparatus includes a body defining a first opening and supporting a first blade extending within the first opening. The first blade is configured to cut the food item. The apparatus also includes a dial rotatably coupled to the body about an axis and defining a second opening substantially aligned with the first opening. The dial supports a second blade extending within the second opening. The second blade is configured to cut the food item.

Abstract: A device for cutting fruit, vegetables or the like includes at least one cutting member (1), a cap (2) and a base (3). The cutting member includes a casing (12) combining blades (10) therein. The cap is configured to releasably cover on the cutting member via a connection means (5), and is adapted for one-hand operation. The base has an upper concave surface (30) for retaining fruit, vegetables, or the like inside, and can support the cutting member thereon. The device is easily operated to cut fruit, vegetables or the like by one hand, and can prevent juice irritating or overflowing around during cutting operation.

Abstract: A fruit slicer includes a support base, a movable base movable relative to the support base, and at least two cutters each selectively mounted on the movable base to move in concert with the movable base and each movable to abut and press the support base. Thus, each of the cutters is detachably mounted on the movable base so that the movable base can co-operate with the cutters of different types and kinds to slice fruits with or without cores.

Abstract: A cutting board system may include a rigid base that includes a base top surface, a base bottom surface, and at least one base side contiguous and adjacent with the base top surface and the base bottom surface. A cutting board system may also include a cutting board shell sized and shaped to fit over the base top surface, where the shell includes a substantially flat cutting surface and a gutter positioned adjacent to the at least one base side. The gutter is further positioned to prevent a food component from contacting the rigid base.

Abstract: A foldable blade assembly enables users to section and display a food preparation within a food preparation container. The blade assembly comprises radially orientable cutting blades sized and shaped to fit within a food preparation container for sectioning and displaying the food preparation. A centralized hinge structure hingedly connects the cutting blades providing structure for pivotally changing the relationship between the cutting blades from radially orientable blade configuration to a substantially coplanar arrangement for storage. A manually removable handle assembly is provided to enable manual force perpendicular to the cutting blades for sectioning the food preparation.

Abstract: An avocado slicer includes a frame having a proximal end and a distal end, and a plurality of slicing elements extending from the proximal end of the frame to the distal end of the frame. Each slicing element is substantially parallel to an adjacent slicing element.

Abstract: The present invention comprehends a tool for cutting fine kernels of corn from ears of corn, comprising generally U-shaped guide having two ends, with each end defining a slit. Each slit is adapted to frictionally situate the blade of a knife therein. A horizontal member connects each end at the base of each end, and the horizontal member is positioned offset from and parallel to the center axis of the guide such that when said blade is axially and centrally positioned between the slits of the tabs, the blade is parallel to and offset from the horizontal member. In this configuration, the horizontal member acts as a guide so that when the blade is forced down an ear of corn the size of the corn kernels removed from the ear remain consistently fine.

Abstract: An apparatus for slicing fruit or other items is provided. The apparatus includes a top interlocking blade, a middle interlocking blade, and a bottom interlocking blade, each having an apex and two downward sloping edges of approximate equal length. The blades have slots at each side that fit into slots in a circumferential ring. The blades form a cutting surface within the circumferential ring that allows a lime or other item to easily cut into equal-sized sections.

Abstract: A small hand tool is provided for forming in a fruit or vegetable an exterior surface recess for complementarily receiving a tealight candle. The tool has a hollow cylindrical body centered around an axis and having a sharpened lower end portion, and a handle projecting axially upwardly from the top end of the body. A diametrically extending, laterally twisted cutting blade member is positioned within a lower end portion of the body and has a cutting edge portion lying in a plane transverse to the body axis. To form the candle receiving recess the tool body is pushed and twisted into the fruit or vegetable, until the top end of the tool body is flush with the outer side of the fruit or vegetable, and then pulled outwardly therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an apparatus for coring and slicing a food item comprising: a) a peripheral member; b) a coring element; and c) a plurality of blades extending radially of the coring element to the peripheral member, in spaced relation about the coring element. The apparatus may be combined with a base for securing the food item. Methods of constructing the apparatus are also encompassed by the present invention.

Abstract: Devices for removing and/or slicing a meat of fruit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device has a handle portion and a working portion having an elongated blade and a pair of lateral extensions. The elongated blade has a cross-sectional shape adapted to facilitate movement of the elongated blade through the meat of the fruit. The working portion of the device has a resting configuration in which the elongated blade has a first radius of curvature, and at least one of the lateral extensions is manipulable under a manual force during use to deform the working portion from the resting configuration to a displaced configuration in which the elongated blade has a second radius of curvature, selectively conforming to the curvature of the skin before and as the elongated blade moves through the meat of the fruit.

Abstract: An avocado slicer having a handle, a curved blade, and a plurality of internal cutting blades. The blade separates the meat of the avocado from the peel while the internal cutting blades simultaneously slice the meat into separate slices. In a preferred form, the avocado slicer includes an adapter with an integrally formed internal handle, all constructed from plastic. The adapter includes internal ribs and channels configured to receive and firmly retain the base of the blade. A santoprene outer handle is over-molded onto the internal handle to provide a non-slip grip.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting soft materials such as meat. Two or more spirally mounted helical blades are situated between two supports, and the supports are mounted to a shank. The shank is rotated to impart rotary action to the spiral shear blades, and the entire device may be used to perform various cutting operations. The distal or bottom one of the supports may also be a cutting blade, and a number of versions of bottom cutting blades are useable in the practice of the invention.

Abstract: A first device, having a plurality of sections, can be placed over a cake and when pressure is applied to the first device, the first device cuts the cake into a plurality of pieces corresponding to the plurality of sections. The plurality of sections may be substantially the same size and shape. A second device is also provided which includes a handle. The second device can be attached to or detached from the first device. A person may apply pressure to the first device by gripping or grabbing the handle of the second device and pushing downwards to cause the cake to be cut. A third device having a different shape from the first device, may be attached to the second or handle device.

Abstract: A fruit slicer includes an X-hinged device including two handles pivoted by a pivot that separates the X-hinged device into an upper portion and a lower portion, an arcuate resilient plate having two ends fixed to the upper portion of the X-hinged device, and a plurality of blades each having a first end fixed to the arcuate resilient plate and a second end fixed in a recessed portion of the X-hinged device. A respective pair of the blades has a gap therebetween. An elastic element is mounted between the handles for biasing the handles away from each other. The arcuate resilient plate is deformed when the handles are pressed toward each other, thereby reducing the gap. The arcuate resilient plate restores its shape when the handles are released.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for slicing of foodstuffs is provided that has a rotatable disc with a radial slot, a knife blade projecting above the rotatable disc, an angled chute for conveying foodstuffs, and an orifice between the chute and the rotatable disc. The orifice has a shape that decreases in width in the direction of rotation of the rotatable disc.

Abstract: An assistant cutting tool for cutting vegetables, such as onions, the tool having a body with a semi-spherical inner space and a plurality of slits within the body so as to be traversed over the body to connect the inner space and the outside. A half cut onion is held in the inner surface and is cut by inserting a blade of a knife through the slits successively. After the onion is cut in one direction, it is then rotated by 90 degrees and then cut again in the same manner to obtain small pieces of onion. According to the tool, small dice-like onion pieces can be obtained.

Abstract: A device to form different shaped raviolis includes multiple uniquely outlined cutting and crimping ribs, surrounding finger ejection holes, and an extrusion die plate hand support system.

Abstract: A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and a frame mounted at one end of the handle. The frame has a cutter fastener portion and a handle fastening portion operably secured to the handle and extending away therefrom. A plurality of cutting elements are operably positioned on the frame. An elongated adjustment element extends through the handle and into the frame. A first end of the elongated adjustment element is secured to the plurality of cutting elements and a second end is secured to a rotatable adjustment knob. Fastening elements are slidably secured to the cutter fastener portion of the frame and to the handle fastening portion of the frame allowing the cutter fastening portion of the frame and the handle fastening portion of the frame to be adjusted in relationship to each other.

Abstract: A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and cutting rings are mounted at one end of the handle. The cutting rings including a pair of ring element operably secured to the handle and extending away therefrom. The pair of ring elements comprise an inner ring and outer ring formed from a continuous band. The inner ring has an elongated guide slot operably positioned therein, and the outer ring has an elongated guide slot operably positioned therein and in operably alignment with the elongated guide slot of the inner ring and extending therethrough. The inner ring includes a set element having a centrally positioned aperture therethrough and adapted for releasably securing and receiving the second end of the handle.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for peeling the husk from produce such as garlic cloves in which cup means are provided with circumferentially spaced, inwardly biased prongs that converge toward an exit end, the prongs having gripping members adjacent the exit end. A plunger is provided for pushing the garlic meat relative to the husk while the husk is being held by the gripping members. In the method, the husk is held and gripped at the circumferentially spaced locations while the meat is pressed axially of the husk relative to the husk while the husk is being gripped. Preferably, the husk is simultaneously scored or cut as it is gripped to split the husk.

Abstract: A unitary metal pizza slice server has a triangular food support surface with a first handle portion projecting from its base and an overlying second handle portion resiliently joined at the distal end of the first portion to form a U-shape handle. The second handle portion terminates in a concave U-shaped food gripper facing the base of the triangular food support surface. The handle has a zone proximate the food support surface of a sufficient width and length in order to dissipate heat from a piping hot pizza slice on the food support surface so that the portion of the handle beyond this zone may be gripped by an unsheathed hand of a user. The handle is also sufficiently long to ensure sanitary serving of the pizza slice.

Abstract: A tool is described for separating a core, a rind and flesh of a fruit, in particular a pineapple, including, at least, a cylindrical corer which is provided at one end with a cutting edge and at the other end with a handle or other driving member, such as a motor. In the tool there is provided, close to the cutting edge of the corer at least one flesh cutter extending radially thereon and provided with at least one cutting edge, the shape of the flesh cutter being chosen such that upon rotating of the tool, it executes a helical movement with a predetermined pitch, and in that at the end of the flesh cutter, opposite the end fixed to the corer, there is provided, at least locally, a rind cutter extending parallel to the corer and provided with at least one cutting edge. Further an auxiliary screw connected with the corer may be present to at least partially determine the pitch of the tool.

Abstract: A cutting device for cutting an objection such as a citrus fruit includes a cutting assembly and an outer casing about the cutting assembly. The casing is generally cylindrical having a central axis, and has open ends. The cutting blade assembly includes a first cutting blade extending radially outward from the central axis to a sidewall of the casing, the first cutting blade cutting the fruit in a manner so as to completely sever one portion thereof from another. The cutting assembly further includes a second cutting blade extending outwardly radially from the central axis toward the sidewall of the casing, but not reaching the sidewall, the second cutting blade cutting the object in a manner so as to partially sever one portion of the object from another. In use, the fruit is introduced into the cutting device at the first open end, is forced over the cutting assembly, and exits the cutting device at the second end.

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 throwable weapon to be usable by a human being for self-defense which comprises a pair of plates connected together so that one plate can be pivoted relative to the other plate. When the one plate is pivoted relative to the other plate, a series of knife blades are caused to protrude circumferentially from the plates. When the weapon is subsequently thrown, the knife blades are capable of causing injury to a living body.

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: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for cutting a series of uniformly spaced longitudinal slits in a cylindrical shotgun shell wad. The wad slitting apparatus, with which the method can be performed, is a cylindrical member having upper and lower portions. A plurality of cutting members are uniformly spaced about the lower portion and project radially outwardly therefrom, with each cutting member having a downwardly facing cutting edge spaced a predetermined distance from a bottom edge of the cylindrical member. In use, the upper portion of the cylindrical member is secured to a movable ram member, which may be the ram tube of a shotgun reloader, and the lower portion is inserted into a wad positioned on a fixed plate. The ram member is then moved toward the plate, causing the cutting members to make a plurality of longitudinal slits in the wad with the slits extending from the upper end of the wad to an area spaced from a lower base portion of the wad by said predetermined distance.

Abstract: A pineapple cutter consists of a cylinder, a cutter portion and a pair of handles. In this case, the cylinder is adapted to punch an outer peel and an interior of the pineapple so as to separate both portions. The cutter portion is secured to the outer side of the cylinder and is adapted to cut the outer side peel of pineapple longitudinally. The pair of handles is secured to a supporting plate extends from the cutter portion integrally.

Abstract: This utensil is a combination device, which may be employed to produce deep fried rosettes or cookies, so as to prevent the necessity of the user's having a separate rosette iron and a cookie cutter of the same shaped design. Primarily, it consists of a cast metal main body, having open portions of geometrical shape, and a removable handle is secured to the center, so as to employ the device as a rosette iron. It further includes cutting edges and a design portion for forming similar impressions on the face of the product.

Abstract: A forming and embossing template, especially for food products such as cookies, including a forming means having a body portion and peripheral cutting means having a desired configuration extending laterally therefrom, and an embossing means having a desired pattern carried by said body portion, whereby said cutting means form the shape of an article in said desired configuration, and said embossing means impresses the desired pattern on said article.

Abstract: A tool which can separate the skin of a potato from its meat while simultaneously cutting the meat into usable sections is disclosed. The tool has a handle which mounts at one end a cutting edge assembly shaped to cut along the inside of the potato skin and lengthwise through the meat of the potato when the tool is held in one hand and a partially-baked potato which has been cut lengthwise is held in the other and the tool manipulated to cause the cutting edge assembly to be drawn lengthwise through the potato.

Abstract: A sprinkler head grass clipper for coupling to a lawn trimmer, and particularly a lawn trimmer of the type which clips grass by means of a rapidly whirling flexible line. The clipper includes a body adapted for attachment to the lawn trimmer rotor and configured to fit over and engage a sprinkler head to maintain the body in a predetermined clipping position during rotation of the rotor. One or more cutting elements are carried by the body for clipping the grass adjacent the sprinkler head upon rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A cutting tool (20) is disclosed which includes an integrally secured arcuate cutting blade portion (32). The arcuate blade portion is defined from a loci of a perfect circle and includes an axially elongated arcuate blade portion (38) and an axially recessed arcuate blade portion (40). The axial length of the recessed portion is equal to that of an adjacent planar blade portion (42). This configuration permits the elongated arcuate blade portion to be retained within a first distinct cut of the material to be worked on or bone being cut while the entire tool is rotated to a distinct second position along the upper surface of the material in order to perform a distinct second cut. These two distinct cuts serve to form a removable section (58) of the material being worked upon or bone cut, and in this manner adjacent sections of the material can be repositioned relative to one another once the second cut is performed and the section is removed.

Abstract: A canning utensil which is used in filling canning jars with food products in sliced form is provided with a hollow, cup-shaped body and an upper cutter assembly mounted adjacent the top opening of the body of the utensil. By using the canning utensil, a food product to be canned may first be severed into slices and then funneled into the canning jar without intervention being necessary to handle the slices. This is accomplished by manually pushing the food product down through the blades of the cutter assembly. As the severed product slices emerge from between the blades, they slide downward through the interior of the cup-shaped body of the utensil along converging paths and are deposited into the canning jar on which the utensil is resting. In alternative embodiments, the cutter blades can take on several configurations and can be fixedly mounted as well as removably mounted to the utensil.

Abstract: A tool for trimming grass and roots from around sprinkler installations includes a shaft with a pair of outwardly extending struts and a cutting member formed of a generally circular plate fixed to the struts, the lower extremity of the plate forming a cutting blade. A plurality of trimming blades is removably fixed to the inner periphery of the angular plate approximately one inch from the bottom of the cutting blade, and extends away from the inner periphery of the plate so as to permit use of the trimming blades when the area around the sprinkler is overgrown with roots, but further permitting removal of the trimming blade when an annular cut around the sprinkler installation is sufficient to remove the undesirable growth.