Foil cutter
AssigneeHallen Company
InventorHerbert Allen
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Abstract
A cutting device for cutting material covering wine bottle necks comprising cutters defining at least three cutting surfaces and a frame carrying the cutters. The frame has an axis and positions the cutters such that the cutting surfaces are radially spaced from the axis, aligned transversely in the axis and circumferentially spread with the angular displacement between each cutting surface and the two adjacent cutting surfaces less than 180.degree., whereby, upon rotation of the frame about the axis by an amount less than 180.degree., the cutting surfaces respectively define contiguous arcs of a common circle. The frame further permits the cutting surfaces to so define a plurality of such common circles of different diameters.
Claims31
A cutting device for cutting material covering wine bottle necks, comprising:
- cutting means defining at least three cutting edges;
- and
- an integral frame having an axis transverse to said cutting edges, said frame carrying said cutting means and positioning said cutting means such that said cutting edges are radially spaced from said axis, aligned transversely of said axis, and circumferentially spread with the angular displacement between each cutting edge and each of the two adjacent cutting edges respectively less than 180.degree., whereby, upon rotation of said frame about said axis by an amount less than 180.degree., said cutting edges respectively define contiguous arcs of a common circle, said frame further being flexible by application of radial force to said frame at as few as two opposed points to move all three of said cutting edges to so define a plurality of such common circles of different diameters.
A cutting device for cutting material covering wine bottle necks, comprising:
- cutting means defining at least three cutting edges;
- and
- a frame having an axis transverse to said cutting edges, said frame carrying said cutting means and positioning said cutting means such that said cutting edges are radially spaced from said axis, aligned transversely of said axis, and circumferentially spread with the angular displacement between each cutting edge and each of the two adjacent cutting edges respectively less than 180.degree., whereby upon rotation of said frame about said axis by an amount less than 180.degree., said cutting edges respectively define contiguous arcs of a common circle, said frame comprising first and second generally parallel force application members having opposed inner sides adapted for disposition on opposite sides of a wind bottle neck, one of said force application members carrying at least two such cutting means on its inner side, and the other of said force application members carrying at least one such cutting means on its inner side;
- and resiliently flexible connector means laterally connecting adjacent ends of said force application members, and extending generally laterally therefrom to a point substantially distal said common circle, to form with said force application members a laterally oriented generally u-shaped body, said connector means having an unflexed position, wherein said force application members are diametrically spaced apart by a distance greater than that required for engagement of said cutting means with the neck of a standard wine bottle, and from which unflexed position said force application members may be flexed inwardly toward each other, about a flexure area of said connector means substantially distal said cutting means and said common circle, to permit said cutting edges to so define a plurality of such common circles of different diameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.