Bag slitting apparatus with flat cutting blade
OwnerEarl J. Votolatoinventor
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Abstract
A bag slitting apparatus for opening a sealed bag along an edge of the bag. The apparatus has a first arm having first outer and inner surfaces, and a second arm having second outer and inner surfaces. The arms are in tensioned movable opposed relationship to each other such that the first and second inner surfaces are movably positionable against each other. One of these inner surfaces is a bladed inner surface having extending inwardly therefrom a non-pointed, generally flat, bag cutting blade, while the other inner surface has extending inwardly therefrom a cutting surface. Exteriorly, the first and second outer surfaces are concavely contoured for simultaneous opposingly-squeezing receipt of a finger and thumb of a user for slitting the edge of the bag between the blade and cutting surface.
Claims6
A bag slitting apparatus, comprising:
- a first arm carrying a blade that is protected by a covering on each end, such that only a central cutting surface of the blade is exposed;
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- a second arm opposable to the first arm, and having a convexity that cooperates with the exposed cutting surface to make a cut through a portion of the bag when the first and second arms are opposed about the bag, and wherein the covering on each end of the blade extends farther in a direction facing the second arm than the exposed cutting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.