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US 11,116,347 B2Granted
Combined vegetable and fruit peeler
AssigneeDart Industries Inc.
InventorsDongjin Byeon, Frederick M. N. De Pauw, Nathalie De Beer
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Abstract
A combined vegetable peeler and fruit peeler includes a handle and at least one leg extending from the handle. A slotted blade is mounted to the handle for peeling vegetables. The leg includes a citrus slicer having a cutting edge for slicing the rind of fruit. The leg may further include a peeling blade in the form of a protrusion having reduced thickness, with the peeling blade having utility in peeling the rind from fruit.
Claims6
A combined vegetable and fruit peeler, comprising:
- a handle;
- at least one leg extending from said handle, said at least one leg having a central longitudinal axis;
- a slotted blade mounted to said at least one leg;
- a citrus slicer extending from said at least one leg as a first protrusion, said citrus slicer including a sharp edge extending outward from said at least one leg and tapering to a pointed end;
- and wherein said at least one leg flares radially outward from the central longitudinal axis in a direction relative to the pointed end of the citrus slicer that is to the right and/or the left of the pointed end to define a peeling blade as an area of said at least one leg, said area having a width;
- wherein said peeling blade forms a second protrusion that is convexly profiled in a direction away from the citrus slicer along the central longitudinal axis, and, in a cross-section transverse to the central longitudinal axis of said at least one leg, defines a generally crescent-shaped solid body portion of said at least one leg that has a convexly profiled exterior surface extending said width of said area and has a reduced thickness leading to a sharpened edge at a periphery of said at least one leg.
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