Patent ID: 11930954
Assignee: nan
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. An opening and closing handheld kitchen press tool comprising:
a cup body formed from a right half cup body hingedly coupled to a left half cup body, wherein each of the right half cup body and the left half cup body has an inner surface and an outer sidewall, and
the left cup body includes:
at a hinge side thereof, a vertical shaft,
along a lower edge of the inner surface, a cup bottom plate laterally extending from the lower edge, wherein the cup bottom plate includes a plurality of extrusion apertures, and
a latch in the form of a lift handle and block, wherein the latch is coupled to the outer sidewall at an open side of the left cup body in an upper corner,

the right half cup body includes a laterally-extending bracket extending from a lower edge thereof and, from a hinge side and extending from the outer sidewall, a lower shaft seat correspondingly vertically aligned with an upper shaft seat,

a fixed handle having first and second ends, the first end connected to the outer sidewall of the right half cup body opposite the vertical shaft, the fixed handle including an upwardly extending and sideways projecting hook at the first end,
a pin shaft seat coupled above the upper shaft seat of the right half cup body,
a moveable handle connected into the pin shaft seat to allow the moveable handle to be raised and lowered relative to the fixed handle, and
a hanging hammer extending below the moveable handle on a hammer frame that is pivotally coupled to the moveable handle at a hammer connection, the hanging hammer further including a hammer seat located at a remote end of the hammer frame, wherein pivoting coupling of the hammer frame to the moveable handle allows the hammer seat to drop vertically within the cup body when the cup body is formed from closure together of the left half cup body against the right half cup body, and
to form the cup body:
a pin holds the vertical shaft in place between the lower shaft seat and the upper shaft seat and allows rotation of the vertical shaft and the cup bottom plate about the pin and the vertical shaft is vertically moveable between the lower shaft seat and the upper shaft seat along the pin, and
when the kitchen press tool is in the closed position, the cup bottom plate rests against the bracket to overlap the bracket thereby to provide a floor that extends generally between the inner surfaces of the hingedly closed right half cup body and left half cup body, and
closing of the kitchen press tool requires, initially, the left half cup body to be raised vertically towards the upper shaft seat to permit the cup bottom plate to clear the bracket and for the block to pass over the upwardly extending and sideways projecting hook, whereafter secure closing of the left half cup body to the right half cup body occurs with snap connection of the block as it drops and is retained from lateral movement by the hook.