US 6,802,149 B1Granted

Fish cutting device and method of using

OwnerJohn N. Albanese, Jr., Pamela R. Albaneseinventors

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Abstract

A fish cutting device and method of using is disclosed for cutting fish into bait pieces. The device comprising: a bucket and a lid attached to the bucket. The lid includes a bottom plate, a hinge and a top plate. The bottom plate has at least one orifice with a corresponding cutting edge set attached to the bottom plate, so that a portion of the cutting edge set traverses across the orifice in the bottom plate. The top plate is pivotally attached to the bottom plate. The top plate has at least one convex protrusion attached to the lower surface of the top plate which is correspondingly aligned with the orifice of the bottom plate. When the lid is in a closed position then a portion of the convex protrusion is slidably inserted through a portion of the orifice of the bottom plate. Each convex protrusion also has a channel set etched in it. Each channel set of each convex protrusion has a configuration matching the corresponding cutting edge set traversing across the corresponding orifice of the bottom plate. The method of using comprises the steps of detaching, freezing, getting, grabbing, hanging, hoisting, lifting, placing, pushing, removing, unhooking, and unlocking.

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Dependent claims

A device for cutting fish into bait pieces, said device comprising:

a bucket;
and
a lid attached to said bucket, said lid including:
a bottom plate attached to said bucket, said bottom plate having:
a first orifice in said bottom plate;
and
a first cutting edge set attached to said bottom plate, said first cutting edge set traverses across said first orifice;
a hinge attached to said bottom plate;
and
a top plate attached to said hinge, wherein said top plate is pivotally attached to said bottom plate, when said top plate is pivoted downwardly towards said bottom plate so that a lower surface of said top plate substantially faces an upper surface of said bottom plate then said lid is in a closed position, when said top plate is pivoted upwardly away from said bottom plate so that the lower surface of said top plate does not substantially face the upper surface of said bottom plate then said lid is in an open position,
said top plate having a first convex protrusion attached to the lower surface of said top plate, said first convex protrusion of said top plate is correspondingly aligned with said first orifice of said bottom plate so that when said lid is in the closed position then a portion of said first convex protrusion is slidably inserted through a portion of said first orifice of said bottom plate, when said lid is in the open position then said first convex protrusion of said top plate is slidably withdrawn from said first orifice of said bottom plate,
said first convex protrusion having a first channel set etched into said first convex protrusion of said top plate, said first channel set etched into said first convex protrusion correspondingly complementarily matching said first cutting edge set traversing across said first orifice of said bottom plate.

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A device cutting fish into bait pieces, said device comprising:

a bucket;
and
a lid attached to said bucket, said lid including:
a bottom plate attached to said bucket, said bottom plate having:
a plurality of orifices;
and
a plurality of cutting edge sets attached to said bottom plate, each
individual cutting edge set of said plurality of cutting edge sets traverses
across each corresponding individual orifice of said plurality of orifices;
a hinge attached to said bottom plate;
and
a top plate attached to said hinge, wherein said top plate is pivotally attached to said bottom plate,
when said top plate is pivoted downwardly towards said bottom plate so that a lower surface of said top plate substantially faces an upper surface of said bottom plate then said lid is in a closed position, when the top plate is pivoted upwardly away from said bottom plate so that the lower surface of said top plate does not substantially face the upper surface of said bottom plate then said lid is in an open position,
said top plate having a plurality of convex protrusions attached to the lower surface of said top plate, when said lid is in the closed position then a portion of each convex protrusion of said plurality of convex protrusions of said top plate is slidably inserted through a portion of each corresponding orifice of said plurality of orifices in said bottom plate, when said lid is in the open position then each convex protrusion of said plurality of convex protrusions of said top plate is slidably withdrawn from each corresponding orifice of said plurality of orifices in said bottom plate;
each convex protrusion of said plurality of convex protrusions attached to said lower surface of said top plate of said lid having a channel set etched into each convex protrusion of said convex protrusions, each channel set of each corresponding convex protrusion of said plurality of convex protrusions of said top plate correspondingly complementarily matching each corresponding a cutting edge set traversing across each orifice of said plurality of orifices in said bottom plate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.