Food-type combination utility device having hammer-like head

Abstract

A utility device for use in operating upon shell-type food products such as nuts and shell fish, comprising a transverse head and a pair of handles having one end of each pivotally connected within a recess in said head, the handles having opposed curved recesses adjacent the aforementioned one end of each and also having mating flat surfaces extending from the other ends and abutting each other, in combination with a metal knife blade provided with a unitary handle having a socket extending into the end from which the blade projects, the socket being complementary to the other ends of the pivoted handles and frictionally but separably receiving said other ends and the flat surfaces of said pivoted handles having opposing grooves forming an elongated recess complementary to the shape of the blade and receiving it, whereby the unitary handle serves to utilize the head as a shell-cracking handle.

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