Handle Or Handle Attaching Means Patents (Class 30/491)
  • Patent number: 11203109
    Abstract: An ergonomic cooktop scraping utensil has a planar body, a first side support, a second side support, a blade, and a handle. The blade is removably attached to a distal end of the planar body, and the handle is laterally connected between the upper ends of the first and second side supports. When force is applied to the handle, it is transmitted to the side supports and into both the proximal and distal ends of the utensil. The blade is configured to be oriented at a specified blade angle relative to the cooktop surface for efficient scraping action. The handle is designed to be operated by the heel of the palm of the user in order to minimize any moment arm, and thus strain, applied to the wrist of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: H&K INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: Norman Craig Glaze
  • Patent number: 8584581
    Abstract: The vegetable peeler for separating the peel from fruits and vegetables includes a handle, a tool head or blade mount, and a blade. The handle is configured to be able to receive and store at least one spare cutting blade such that the blade can be removed from the tool head and replaced with a different blade stored in the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Progressive International Corporation
    Inventor: Heather Curtin
  • Publication number: 20100107428
    Abstract: An adjustable handle for a tool that can be pivoted “forward and backward,” or “side to side,” and locked in a desired position to facilitate use of the tool and handle, and a woodworking plane with such a handle. The plane may be a small scraping plane that, optionally, includes a camber screw for inducing a camber in the blade, or a lever cap thumb screw threaded into the plane body. The plane may also be a bench, block, shoulder, rabbet or other plane, and the handle may be configured in a wide variety of different shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Robin C. Lee, Brent K. Hyde
  • Patent number: 7603783
    Abstract: A plane such as a low angle jack plane having an adjustable toe that cannot inadvertently slide backwards in the plane body so that it contacts and possibly damages the plane blade. A threaded stop mounted in the plane body bears against the toe establishing the point to which the toe can slide back in the plane body. Rotation of the threaded stop moves the end of the stop by small, easily controlled increments, making it easy to change the width of the mouth while preventing contact between the toe and the plane blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Lee Valley Tools, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robin C. Lee, Terry R. Saunders
  • Patent number: 7117602
    Abstract: A plane such as a shoulder plane having at least two set screws positioned in apertures in the body, the set screws adapted to bear against opposite sides of the blade laterally to adjust the blade in position. An adjustment assembly is also provided, where rotation of a knob adjusts longitudinal movement of a traveler component, and laterally pivoting the knob allows lateral movement of the blade to the extent permitted by the set screws. A knob for rotational readjustment of the handle is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Lee Valley Tools, Ltd.
    Inventor: Terry R. Saunders
  • Patent number: 6931733
    Abstract: A carpenter's combination plane comprised of a basic holder and a blade holder, adapted with various holder accessories depending on the size of the work surface and the distance of reciprocal planing; other auxiliary accessories may be provided to the holder accessories to define the width, depth, inclined surface of the work surface or the polishing work surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Inventor: Kun-Meng Lin
  • Patent number: 6347456
    Abstract: A plane having an easily removable blade positionable in use flush against the work surface. A magnet attached to the underside of the handle of the plane secures the blade to the handle. The blade may be positioned on the handle with the cutting edge exposed or simply reversed to store the cutting edge of the blade under the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Lee Valley Tools, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steve K. Jones, Mark Summers
  • Patent number: 6263578
    Abstract: An ergonomically-designed, operator manipulated scraper means for contacting a cooking surface for the purpose of dislodging and/or removing unwanted material therefrom. A griddle scraper has a platform member, the downwardly distending forward portion of which comprises a cleaning means terminating in a blade edge, and the rear portion of which extends in an upwardly direction. A support member connects at its lower end to said platform and extends upwardly, having a rearwardly inclined end portion. A “handshake grip” handle positioned above said platform interconnects the support member to said upwardly extending rear portion of said platform. A knob handle is mounted on the support member upper end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: In-N-Out Burgers
    Inventors: Howard Jay Frantz, Christopher Paul Lojacono
  • Patent number: 5353507
    Abstract: An adjustable beading and grooving tool having a combination handle and fence within which a blade holder telescopes. The holder is a longitudinally slotted cylinder having two holder arms, or may be two half-cylinders, between which a blade may be fixed to project a desired distance from the holder, thereby establishing the depth of workpiece surface penetration. The blade holder is separately, adjustably fixed in the handle with the blade located a desired distance from the fence surface to establish the location of the profile to be formed with respect to the workpiece edge against which the fence bears during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Lee Valley Tools Ltd.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Lee, Robin C. Lee, Francis A. McLean
  • Patent number: 5040297
    Abstract: The present fiberglass panel cutter includes a blade extractor tab for slightly displacing or deflecting scrap pieces of ductboard from their corresponding grooves, a blade height adjuster for controlling the depth of the groove, a blade with aligned apertures for ready removal from a blade mount, a canted handle, and a set of linear channels formed in a lower surface of the cutter for guiding the cutter in a straight line across the ductboard. The present invention further includes a knife with a blade set at a downward angle relative its handle to efficiently make cuts at an arm's length in ductboard which may measure four feet by eight feet. The present invention further includes a square that is infinitely adjustable and convertible between right and left handed orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Malco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey V. Scheinost