Citrus Peeler
AssigneeHalilea Enterprises, Inc.
InventorLeona Grady
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Abstract
A citrus peeler is configured with properties to make removing a fruit's outer skin and pith easier for a user is implemented, in which the citrus peeler can be used with fruits like grapefruit, orange, etc. The citrus peeler has a handle and a neck extending from the handle. The neck is flattened relative to the handle and forms a plane. Extending substantially perpendicular from the neck's top surface is a channel knife for cutting the rind off of the fruit. The channel knife extends vertically from one arm of the neck and is sharpened to enable easy cutting of the fruit's outer skin. The channel knife can cut around the circumference of the fruit to create a circumferential channel that provides the entry point to the fruit sac.
Claims17
A citrus peeler, comprising:
- a handle;
- a neck extending from the handle;
- a channel knife extending vertically upward from the neck, in which the channel knife is sharpened to enable cutting of a channel in a fruit's outer skin;
- and
- an outer serrated head at a distal end of the neck, in which the neck includes a bend that causes the outer serrated head to form an obtuse angle relative to the neck's plane.
A kitchen utensil adapted to remove an outer rind from a piece of fruit, comprising:
- a handle;
- a neck extending from the handle, in which the neck is separated into a peel segment and a support segment that are separated by a gap, in which the peel segment is adapted with structural properties to enable removing a fruit's outer rind, and the support segment is adapted with structural properties to enable removing the fruit's pith;
- a channel knife extending vertically upward from the peel segment of the neck, in which the channel knife is sharpened to enable cutting of a channel in the fruit's outer rind;
- and
- a head at a distal end of the neck, in which the head is at least partially serrated on the neck's peel segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.