Candle wick trimming device
AssigneeTJ Bowers Enterprises, Inc.
InventorChristopher F. Bowers
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Abstract
A candle wick trimming device including a cutting assembly having first and second elongated members that are pivotably coupled together. A distal portion of the first elongated member has a cavity defined by a floor and a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly therefrom. One of the sidewalls defining the cavity forms a first cutting edge. A distal portion of the second elongated member closes the cavity when the cutting assembly is in a closed state. The second elongated member also has a second cutting edge at its distal-most end. The first and second cutting edges interact to shear a candle wick to a desired length and force the sheared portion of the candle wick into the cavity.
Claims20
A candle wick trimming device comprising:
- a cutting assembly comprising a first elongated member and a second elongated member that are pivotably coupled together;
- a distal portion of the first elongated member comprising a cavity defined by a floor and a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the floor, a first sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls comprising a first cutting edge;
- a distal portion of the second elongated member comprising a second cutting edge located at a distal-most end of the second elongated member;
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- wherein the first and second elongated members are pivotably coupled together so that the cutting assembly is alterable between:
- (1) a first state in which the cavity has an open top end;
- and (2) a second state in which the distal portion of the second elongated member closes the open top end of the cavity.
A candle wick trimming device comprising:
- a cutting assembly comprising a first elongated member and a second elongated member that are pivotably coupled together to transition the cutting assembly between a first state and a second state, the cutting assembly extending along a longitudinal axis in the second state;
- a distal portion of the first elongated member comprising a cavity having an open top end, the cavity defined by a floor and a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the floor;
- a distal portion of the second elongated member comprising an inner surface that closes the cavity of the distal portion of the first elongated member when the first and second elongated members are in the second state;
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- wherein the first elongated member terminates at a first distal end and the second elongated member terminates at a second distal end, the first and second distal ends being axially offset from one another.
A candle wick trimming device comprising:
- a cutting assembly having an outer surface comprising a front surface, a rear surface, and first and second side surfaces extending between the front and rear surfaces;
- the cutting assembly comprising a first elongated member and a second elongated member that are pivotably coupled together, the cutting assembly alterable between a first state and a second state via relative pivoting of the first and second elongated members;
- a distal portion of the first elongated member comprising a cavity having an open top end that is closed by a distal portion of the second elongated member when the cutting assembly is in the second state;
- wherein with the cutting assembly in the second state the first elongated member and the second elongated member each form a portion of both of the first and second side surfaces of the outer surface of the cutting assembly;
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- wherein each of the first and second side surfaces of the outer surface of the cutting assembly has a substantially constant width measured between the front and rear surfaces of the cutting assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.