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US 2013/0239763 A1Published application
Pizza Cutter
OwnerRobert Cordova, Eduardo Martinezinventors
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Abstract
A pizza cutter includes at least one blade, a handle attached to the blade, and extenders for positioning the cutter in a pizza box to cut uniform slices of pizza. The blade may be a single blade or two blades forming a 90 degree “X”. The handle is attached across the top of the blade and may include slots to better grasp the handle. The extenders are attached to opposite ends of the cutter and may be fixed or rotating, and intersect opposite corners of the pizza box to align the blade to cut uniform slices.
Claims20
A pizza cutter comprising:
- a handle;
- at least one blade having a length L1 of approximately the diameter of a pizza, and a cutting edge on the bottom of the blade opposite to the handle and running the length of the blade;
- extenders at opposite ends of the cutter, the blade centered between outside ends of the extenders;
- the opposite outside ends of the extenders separated by a distance L2 of the square root of two times the length L1, the extenders reaching down to between about ⅜ inches above the cutting edge of the blade and even with the cutting edge of the blade, the outside ends configured to cooperate with opposite inside corners of a pizza box to align the blade for a diagonal cut of the pizza in the pizza box, and to provide clearance for vertical sides of the pizza box for square cuts when the pizza cutter is rotated 45 degrees.
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A method for cutting pizza, the method comprising:
- placing a pizza in a pizza box;
- positioning extenders at ends of a pizza blade, the extenders reaching a distance equal to a diagonal distance between opposite interior corners of the pizza box;
- pushing the cutter down into the pizza with extenders reaching into the opposite interior corners of the pizza box;
- making a first diagonal cut;
- lifting the pizza cutter;
- rotating the pizza cutter 90 degrees;
- pushing the cutter down into the pizza with extenders reaching into second opposite interior corners of the pizza box;
- making a second diagonal cut;
- lifting the pizza cutter;
- aligning the pizza cutter over the pizza and intersecting the first diagonal cut and the second diagonal cut for a first square cut;
- pushing the cutter down into the pizza;
- making the first square cut;
- lifting the pizza cutter;
- rotating the pizza cutter 90 degrees;
- pushing the cutter down into the pizza;
- making a second square cut;
- and
- lifting the pizza cutter.
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A pizza cutter comprising:
- a handle;
- at least one blade having a length L1 of 14⅛ inches, and a cutting edge on the bottom of the blade opposite to the handle and running the length of the blade;
- extenders at opposite ends of the cutter, the blade centered between outside ends of the extenders;
- the opposite outside ends of the extenders separated by a distance L2 of 20 inches, the extenders reaching down to between about ⅜ inches above the cutting edge of the blade and even with the cutting edge of the blade, the outside ends configured to cooperate with opposite inside corners of a pizza box to align the blade for a diagonal cut of the pizza in the pizza box, and to provide clearance for vertical sides of the pizza box for square cuts when the pizza cutter is rotated 45 degrees.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.