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US 4,970,786 AGranted
Produce peeling device
OwnerArt Harperinventor
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Abstract
A curved knife for manually peeling produce and especially for simultaneously peeling the sides and bottom of produce halves, such as avocados and melons, while keeping the flesh in one intact piece as the device is rotated around the interior wall of the skin; and to facilitate quick and easy peeling thereof, by employing a wide, thin, curved blade member, with a non-snag cutting edge; said blade member being integrally connected to one end of an elongated handle.
Claims11
A produce peeling device in combination, comprised of:
- a. an elongated handle integrally attached at a base of a blade member, for manually holding said blade member at said base thereof, said blade member extending forwardly from one end of the handle, so that a cutting edge of said blade member can be manually used to cut the flesh of a produce from its skin;
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- b. said blade member being relatively thin and wide thereof;
- having its front and back sides substantially flat in cross section, with the flat sides being relatively straight at said base, then curved remote from its front side, extending from said base to a tip of its free end and shaped to conform to the basic contour of a produce;
- said blade member having a portion of its width between its base and its tip, being at least as wide as the width of said base portion thereof;
- said blade member having said cutting edge extending substantially along its length of at least one edge thereof and including said tip, with said blade member having an anti-snag means to prevent said cutting edge from snagging on the skin, when said blade member is placed adjacent said skin;
- in use, the curved free end of said blade member, is of sufficient length wherein said blade member can be inserted between the skin and the flesh, with said cutting edge positioned relatively perpendicular to the cut edge of a produce half, whereupon said device is manually rotated around said produce half and pushing said cutting edge through said flesh, to simultaneously cut a substantial portion of the sides and bottom of said produce half and with a minimum of damage to said skin and said flesh thereof, thereby cutting said flesh out of said skin in one intact piece.
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A produce peeling device in combination, comprised of:
- a. an elongated handle integrally attached at a base of a blade member, for manually holding said blade member at said base thereof, said blade member extending forwardly from one end of the handle, so that a cutting edge of said blade member can be manually used to cut the flesh of a produce from its skin;
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- b. said blade member being relatively thin and wide thereof;
- having its front and back sides substantially flat in cross section, with the flat sides being relatively straight at said base, then curved remote from its front side, extending from said base to a tip of its free end and shaped to conform to the basic contour of a produce;
- said blade member having a portion of its width between its base and its tip, being at least as wide as the width of said base portion thereof;
- said blade member having said cutting edge extending substantially along its length of at least one edge thereof and including said tip, with said cutting edge having at least one beveled side forming a sharp edge, said sharp edge being sharp enough to cut the flesh of a produce, while one said beveled side is of sufficient size to glide over the skin, when said blade member is placed adjacent the skin;
- in use, the curved free end of said blade member, is of sufficient length wherein said blade member can be inserted between the skin and the flesh, with said cutting edge positioned relatively perpendicular to the cut edge of a produce half, whereupon said device is manually rotated around said produce half and pushing said cutting edge through said flesh, to simultaneously cut a substantial portion of the sides and bottom of said produce half and with a minimum of damage to said skin and said flesh thereof, thereby cutting said flesh out of said skin in one intact piece.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.