# US 9,434,060 B1 · Bottle cap removing cutlery

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- Number: US 9,434,060 B1
- Document ID: US9434060B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 14/244,898
- Filed: 2014-04-04
- Granted: 2016-09-06
- Earliest claimed: 2013-04-05
- Applicants: Stephen Henry Grinalds; Kevin Samuel Newburg
- Inventors: Stephen Henry Grinalds; Kevin Samuel Newburg
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9434060B1

## CPC

- B25F 1/00: Combination or multi-purpose hand tools (associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means B25F3/00; {combined stapling and punching tools B25C5/0214})
- A47G 21/02: Forks; Forks with ejectors; Combined forks and spoons; Salad servers
- A47G 21/023: {Forks; Forks with ejectors}
- A47G 21/04: Spoons; Pastry servers
- A47G 21/06: Combined or separable sets of table-service utensils; Oyster knives with openers; Fish servers with means for removing bones (kitchen equipment A47J)
- B26B 11/00: Hand knives combined with other implements, e.g. with corkscrew, with scissors, with writing implement (combined table-ware A47G21/06)
- B25F: COMBINATION OR MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DETAILS OR COMPONENTS OF PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS NOT PARTICULARLY RELATED TO THE OPERATIONS PERFORMED AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR {(machines or arrangements of machines for performing specified combinations of different metal-working operations not covered by a single other subclass B23P23/00 and subgroups)}
- A47G: HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B5/00; knives B26B)
- B26B: HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (for harvesting A01D; for horticulture, for forestry A01G; for butchering or meat treatment A22; for manufactering or repairing footwear A43D; nail clippers or cutters A45D29/02; kitchen equipment A47J; {vegetable slicers, julienne cutters and similar devices and holders therefor, B26D3/28}; for surgical purposes A61B; for metal B23D; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; plier-like tools with cutting edges B25B7/22; pincers B25C11/02; handles for hand implements, in general B25G; guillotine-type cutters B26D; {perforating by non-mechanical means, e.g. by fluid jet, B26F1/26}; for erasing B43L19/00; for textile materials D06H)

## Abstract

A bottle cap removing cutlery is disclosed herein. The bottle cap removing cutlery comprises a main body, a cutlery member, a bottle cap opener. The cutlery member is preferably a knife, spoon, fork or like utensil. The bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A bottle cap removing cutlery set comprising:
a plurality of bottle cap removing knifes, each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes comprising
main body,
a cutlery end comprising a knife member, and
a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,
wherein a sharp surface of the knife member is substantially perpendicular relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,
wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end;
a plurality of bottle cap removing spoons, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons comprising
a main body,
a cutlery end comprising a spoon member, and
a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,
wherein the spoon member is substantially parallel relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,
wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end;
a plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks comprising
a main body,
a cutlery end comprising a fork member, and
a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,
wherein a plurality of prongs of the fork member is substantially parallel relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,
wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end,
wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes has a center of gravity positioned approximately at the center of the main body and wherein the cutlery end is positioned at an opposite end of the main body from the bottle cap opening end.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes is composed of a material selected from stainless steel, silver, gold-plating, brass, tin, plastic and aluminum.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein the main body for each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes ranges from 30% to 80% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery, the corresponding bottle cap removing end ranges from 5% to 33% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery, and the corresponding cutlery end ranges from 5% to 33% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes has a length ranging from 5 inches to 12 inches.