A47J 9/003
Apparatus or utensils for shaping or dispensing portions of butter or the
Official title: {by slicing slabs or prints into pats}
A47J9/003 (Apparatus or utensils for shaping or dispensing portions of butter or the) appears on 21 US grants and 22 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47J- Granted patents
- 21
- Published applications
- 22
- Assignees
- 17
- Inventors
- 36
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Food slicer assembly10 Feb 2026US 12,544,947 B2Land O' Lakes, Inc.
- Apparatuses and methods for cutting, spreading, and/or dispensing food product13 Sep 2022US 11,439,264 B2Prota Labs, LLC
- Food slicer assembly21 Dec 2021US 11,203,129 B2Land O' Lakes, Inc.
- Food processing device14 Jul 2020US 10,709,280 B2Huiyang Allan Plastic & Electric Industries Co., Limited
- Apparatus for food preparation31 Dec 2019US 10,520,348 B2
- Food slicer assembly7 Apr 2022US 2022/0105651 A1Land O' Lakes, Inc.
- Food slicer assembly13 May 2021US 2021/0138678 A1Land O' Lakes, Inc.
- Apparatus for food preparation21 Nov 2019US 2019/0353511 A1
- Apparatuses and Methods For Cutting, Spreading, and/or Dispensing Food Product17 Oct 2019US 2019/0313830 A1Prota Labs, LLC
- Butter holder and application device3 May 2018US 2018/0116435 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for coring into and cutting food items32US 7,086,155 B2Browne & Co. · 2006
- Pasta, pastry, cookie, and hors d'oeuvre maker30US 6,743,007 B2Advantage Partners IP, LLC · 2004
- Pasta, pastry, cookie and hors d'oeuvre maker20US 5,421,713 ARonco R&D Incorporated · 1995
- Egg slicer16US 8,286,355 B2Helen of Troy Limited · 2012
- Avocado slicer13US 7,055,247 B2Progressive International Corporation · 2006