Patent Application
20210045567
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The disclosure and prior art relates to knives and more particularly pertains to a new knife for easily coring fruits and vegetables.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a handle having a butt end, a front end, a top side, a bottom side, a left side, and a right side. The front end has a blade cavity extending towards the butt end. A shank is coupled to the handle within the blade cavity. A blade is coupled to the shank and comprises a main portion and a bent portion. The main portion is coupled to the shank and extends from adjacent the front end of the handle. The bent portion lies in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the main portion. The blade has a right edge and a left edge tapering along the main portion and the bent portion to a meet at a tip.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A shank 32 is coupled to the handle 12 within the blade cavity 26 to proximal the butt end 14 for increased strength and to prevent separation from the handle 12. The shank 32 may be rectangular and has a shank width 34 less than the front width 30. A blade 36 is coupled to the shank 32 and comprises a main portion 38 and a bent portion 40. The main portion 38 is coupled to the shank 32 and extends from adjacent the front end 16 of the handle. A blade width 42 of a shank end 44 of the blade adjacent the front end 16 is equal to the front width 30 of the front end. The bent portion 40 lies in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the main portion 38. A main length 46 of the main portion 38 is equal to seven times a bent length 48 of the bent portion 40. The main length 46 ideally is 2.625″ and the bent length 48 is ideally 0.375″. A handle length 50 of the handle 12 is ten times the bent length 48. The handle length 50 is thus ideally 3.75″. The blade 36 has a right edge 52 and a left edge 54 each tapering along the main portion 38 and the bent portion 40 to a meet at a tip 56. Each of the right edge 52 and the left edge 54 has a dull portion 58 adjacent the front end 16 of the handle and a sharp portion 60 extending from the dull portion 58 to the tip 56. The dull portion 58 occupies less than 25% of the main portion 38.
In use, the handle 12 is secured and the blade 36 is inserted into a vegetable such as a bell pepper. The apparatus 10 is then manipulated in either direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, to create a circular cutting to extract the core of the vegetable. The blade 36 may then be used to scrape out seeds and the bent portion 40 may be used to extract said seeds.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
