Combined letter opener and sheet-like material cutter tool
AssigneePacific Handy Cutter, Inc.
InventorRobert B. Wenk
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Abstract
A letter opening device is provided. The letter opening device includes a generally rectangular body having a letter opening blade for opening envelopes. The body is formed from a molded plastic material and is suitable for being hand held, and the letter opening blade is molded partially within the plastic molded body. The device further includes a sheet-like material cutter having a coupon cutting blade. A portion of the coupon cutting blade is exposed exteriorly of the body whereby the exposed portion can be manipulated to selectively separate sections of sheet-like materials such as paper and plastic sheets.
Claims19
A paper cutting tool comprising in combination:
- a molded plastic body suitable for being hand held, said body being about the size of a card such that said paper cutting tool may be carried in a pocket;
- an envelope opening cutting blade having a first cutting edge exposed in a recess opening molded into said body, said envelope opening cutting blade embedded in said body;
- an envelope flap insertion point provided on said body and adjacent to said envelope cutting blade;
- a coupon cutting blade embedded in said body with only a cutting tip of said coupon cutting blade exposed exteriorly of said body, said coupon cutting blade being rectangularly-shaped and having four sides, one of said sides having a second cutting edge parallel to a longitudinal axis of said coupon cutting blade, said second cutting edge inclined at an acute angle to a side edge of said body;
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- a recess within said body to receive said coupon cutting blade, said recess being rectangularly-shaped and having a left wall, a right wall, a bottom wall and a top wall, said coupon cutting blade secured to said body by having said four sides of said coupon cutting blade directly abutting said four walls of said recess;
- whereby said tool can be manipulated to selectively open a sealed envelope and separate sections of a sheet as in separating a coupon portion of a product advertisement on a sheet of paper;
- whereby the sealed envelope is opened by manually inserting said envelope flap insertion point beneath an envelope flap and used to cut the envelope edge where the flap joins a side wall of the envelope;
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- whereby said cutting tip is equilaterally-shaped with a vertex extending outwardly and perpendicularly to said side edge of said body to perforate the sheet to be separated, said cutting tip disposed near a mid-section of said side edge of said body such that all four sides of said coupon cutting blade are supported by said four walls of said recess.
In an envelope opening tool having a first blade embedded in a molded plastic material body with a first cutting edge exposed by a recessed opening in said body to facilitate the opening of an envelope by sliding a portion of an envelope flap insertion point under an envelope flap to bring said first cutting edge into contact with and cut open a lateral edge of a sealed envelope, the improvement comprising the provision of:
- a second blade rectangularly-shaped with four sides, said second blade embedded in said molded plastic material body with a cutting tip of said second blade extending outwardly of a side edge of said body, one of said four sides of said second blade having a second cutting edge parallel to a longitudinal axis of said second blade, said second cutting edge inclined at an acute angle to said side edge of said body;
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- a recess within said body to receive said second blade, said recess being rectangularly-shaped and having a left wall, a right wall, a bottom wall and a top wall, said second blade secured to said body by having said four sides of said second blade directly abutting said four walls of said recess;
- whereby said second blade can be manipulated to selectively separate sections of sheet material, said cutting tip being equilaterally-shaped with a vertex extending outwardly and perpendicularly to said side edge of said body to perforate the sheet material to be separated, said cutting tip disposed near a mid-section of said side edge of said body;
- said body being about the size of a typical business card such that said body can be carried in a pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.