Butchering – Crustacean – Hand tool
Patent
1995-08-25
1996-12-24
Little, Willis
Butchering
Crustacean
Hand tool
301201, A22C 2902
Patent
active
055869319
ABSTRACT:
A hand held utensil adapted to open elongate sections of crab leg shells and similar objects comprising a manually engagable handle, a planar blade secured to the handle and extending outwardly to a tip, with the forward portion of the blade adjacent the tip being substantially straight. A blade-protecting member is secured in a spaced relationship adjacent the substantially straight forward portion of the blade, with the blade-protecting member extending from the handle for a distance exceeding the length of the blade. An open-ended slot is defined between the substantially straight forward blade portion and the blade-protecting member, with such slot being adapted to receive the shell of a crustacean, such that the blade can cut through the shell as a user grasping the handle moves the blade longitudinally along the shell. In the preferred embodiment, the blade is multiangled, with a rear portion of the blade extending upwardly from the substantially straight forward blade portion in the direction of the adjacent undersurface of the blade-protecting member. The undersurface of latter member has a recess therein into part of which the upwardly extending rear blade portion extends, thus to provide assured shell-cutting capability when the blade and recess are brought into contact with a crustacean shell. The rear portion of the multiangled blade may extend up smoothly from the substantially straight, forwardmost portion of the blade, or it may form an obtuse angle with the substantially straight forwardmost portion of the blade.
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Little Willis
Renfro Julian C.
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