Coin roll cutter
OwnerDean J. Tommi, Michael Weisbeckerinventors
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Abstract
A coin roll cutter comprising a body to be clasped in a user's hand, an arcuate member adjacent to and normally spaced from the body and having one end connected to the body for swinging movement of the arcuate member toward and away from the body, and a cutter extending from the body into and terminating within the arcuate member when the latter is in its normal position, swinging movement of the arcuate member, as by a coin roll engaged in the concave side of the arcuate member serves to project the cutter beyond the arcuate member into cutting engagement with the wrapper for the coin roll.
Claims8
A hand implement for opening a wrapped coin roll, said implement comprising a generally circular body sized to be held in the palm of a user's hand and having one side configured for engagement with the palm side of a user's fingers, the other side of said body being concavely arcuately cut-away, an arcuate bearing member along the cut-away on the other side of and spaced from said body and being outwardly concave for receiving engagement with a coin roll, mounting means mounting said bearing member to said body for resilient yielding movement towards said body upon forceable engagement of a coin roll in said bearing member, and a cutting element extending from the other side of said body into said bearing member and having a cutting edge received in said bearing member when the latter is spaced from said body, said cutting edge projecting through and beyond said bearing member upon said forceable engagement to impale and cut a coin roll wrapper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.