Cutlery – Cutting tools – With guard and/or guide
Reexamination Certificate
2002-03-15
2004-03-09
Payer, Hwei-Siu (Department: 3724)
Cutlery
Cutting tools
With guard and/or guide
C030S340000, CD22S118000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06701624
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to ergonomic knives and more particularly pertains to a new knife with ergonomic handle for providing a user with greater safety and control when using the knife.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of ergonomic knives is known in the prior art. More specifically, ergonomic knives heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,365,666; U.S. Pat. No. 4,578,864; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 202,780; U.S. Pat. No. 5,568,689; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 257,686; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 363,336.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new knife with ergonomic handle. The inventive device includes a blade member having a cutting edge; and also includes a handle assembly being attached to the blade member and having mirrored handle members being fastened side-by-side about a portion of the blade member with each of the mirrored handle member having a main portion and an elongate end portion extending from the main portion with the main portion being adapted to protect a user's index finger and thumb.
In these respects, the knife with ergonomic handle according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a user with greater safety and control when using the knife.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of ergonomic knives now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new knife with ergonomic handle construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a user with greater safety and control when using the knife.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which has many of the advantages of the ergonomic knives mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new knife with ergonomic handle which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art ergonomic knives, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a blade member having a cutting edge; and also includes a handle assembly being attached to the blade member and having mirrored handle members being fastened side-by-side about a portion of the blade member with each of the mirrored handle member having a main portion and an elongate end portion extending from the main portion with the main portion being adapted to protect a user's index finger and thumb.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention 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 invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which has many of the advantages of the ergonomic knives mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new knife with ergonomic handle which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art ergonomic knives, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such knife with ergonomic handle economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle for providing a user with greater safety and control when using the knife.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle which includes a blade member having a cutting edge; and also includes a handle assembly being attached to the blade member and having mirrored handle members being fastened side-by-side about a portion of the blade member with each of the mirrored handle member having a main portion and an elongate end portion extending from the main portion with the main portion being adapted to protect a user's index finger and thumb.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle that is easy and convenient to use.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new knife with ergonomic handle that protects the user's fingers and thumb while using the knife to slice through foods such as meat.
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