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US 4,787,306 AGranted
Egg shelling device
OwnerGladys E. Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
Egg shelling device (A) having a tubular body member (A) with an upper end (B) that is adapted to be slipped onto the end of a faucet (C). The body member (A) includes interior passages (I,E,7) and includes a conical seat edge (G) which is radially inwardly projecting so that a hard boiled egg (H) when seated against the seat edge prevents the water pressure from acting on the outside of the egg shell (3). The water pressure entering the interior of the egg at broken portion (5) expels the egg.
Claims3
An egg shelling device, comprising:
- (a) a tubular member having an upper end adapted to be removably attached to a water faucet and having a passage for receiving the flow of water from the faucet when the faucet valve is opened and also having a lower end of larger diameter than said upper end;
- (b) said tubular member near its lower end having a first surface comprising a portion of said passage communicating with a second outwardly angling surface to define an edge seat to receive the small end of an egg to establish an annular edge line contact between said edge seat and said egg, said second outwardly angling surface extending outwardly at an angle so as to be spaced from an egg held against said edge seat and such that it joins with the inner surface of a skirt formed integrally with said tubular member and extending downwardly to define an interior third surface also spaced from an egg held against said seat edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.