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US 11,123,885 B1Granted
Multi-function kitchen knife system
OwnerMartha Perez-Espartero, Nestor Esparteroinventors
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Abstract
A knife has a blade with a tip forwardly, a tang rearwardly, a spine upwardly, and an edge downwardly. A handle encompassing the spine. A plurality of components, including a cheese slicer, are formed in the blade along the spine.
Claims12
A multi-function kitchen knife system for performing a large number of kitchen tasks with a single system, the system comprising, in combination:
- a blade having a tip forwardly, and a tang rearwardly, and a spine upwardly, and an edge downwardly;
- a handle encompassing the spine;
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- a plurality of components formed in the blade along the spine, the components including a cheese slicer.
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A multi-function kitchen knife system (10) for cutting and for performing a wide variety of kitchen-related functions, the system comprising, in combination:
- a blade (14) having a tip (16) forwardly, and a tang (18) rearwardly, and a spine (20) upwardly, and an edge (22) downwardly, the blade being fabricated of high carbon stainless steel;
- a bottle opener (26) formed in the blade adjacent to the tang;
- a can opener (30) formed in the spine adjacent to the blade;
- an undulating edge (34) formed in a central extent of the spine functioning for scaling fish;
- a slot (38) with a downwardly facing sharp edge (40) functioning as a vegetable peeler, the slot and the sharp edge being parallel with and located downwardly of the undulating edge;
- a cheese slicer (44) having a rearward anchor (46), the rearward anchor having a lower end with a pivot pin (48), the rearward anchor having an upper end with an axial slot (50), the pivot pin being adjacent to and rearwardly of the undulating edge, the upper end being movable between an inoperative position adjacent to the bottle opener and an operative position above the pivot pin, the cheese slicer (44) having a forward anchor (54), the forward anchor having a lower end with a pivot pin (56), the forward anchor having an upper end with an axial slot (58), the pivot pin being adjacent to and forwardly of the undulating edge, the upper end being movable between an inoperative position adjacent to the tip and an operative position above the pivot pin, the cheese slicer (44) having a string (60) with ends supported by the axial slots of the forward and rearward anchors;
- a handle (64) encompassing the tang, the handle having a free end (66) with a cylindrical recess (68), the handle having an end cap (70) threadedly couplable to the free end with a spiral cork puller (74) extending from the end cap and positionable within the recess;
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- a cutting edge (78) along the edge and along the tip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.