Hand tool for peeling elongated vegetables

A hand tool for peeling elongated vegetables, the hand tool comprising:

• a pair of hand levers each having a paring knife forming low waste peelers on free ends of the respective hand levers;
• pivot means for pivotally connecting an end of the respective hand levers opposite to the free end of the respective hand levers to each other so as to form one-armed levers adapted to be grasped by one hand of a user;
• means for urging said hand levers into a basic position;
• spring means for forcing the free ends of the hand levers into an open position, said spring means being compressible by the hand of the user so as to bring the respective paring knives into engagement with the vegetable;
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• means for mounting the respective paring knives at the respective free ends of said hand levers so that a longitudinal center axis of the respective paring knives extends in parallel to a pivot axis of said pivot means and the paring knives remain in constant parallel alignment independently of a pivotal position of the hand levers, wherein said means for mounting includes holder means formed in one piece with the respective free ends of the hand levers and extending substantially at a right angle with respect to a longitudinally extending vertical plane of the hand levers,
• wherein the pivot axis and the longitudinal center axis of the paring knives are disposed at an angle of inclination in a range of 15.degree. to 40.degree. with respect to a longitudinally horizontally extending plane of the hand tool, and
• wherein a total height of the hand tool is less than a length of the respective paring knives.