Patent ID: 6199283
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
An implement for use in the preparation of the vegetables and fruits, comprising:a shaft for impaling a vegetable or fruit and a first handle for holding the implement; the shaft and the first handle having a common longitudinal centerline;the shaft having a length of at least one and one-half inches and an external diameter between about three sixteenths and three eights of an inch; the shaft having an external surface with projecting rib means thereon extending for at least one half the length of the shaft to retain an impaled vegetable or fruit on the shaft while the vegetable or fruit is being prepared; the rib means having a degree of slope to a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline of the shaft ranging from 0.degree. to 45.degree.; the external surface of the shaft being made of a polymeric material to help keep cutting instruments from being unduly dulled by contact with the shaft during preparation of a vegetable or fruit; andthe first handle being integral with the shaft; the first handle having a base at a first end of the first handle from which the shaft projects along the common longitudinal centerline; the base of the first handle having projections on either side of the shaft, spaced radially outward from the shaft, and extending from the base in the same general direction as the shaft for penetrating a vegetable or fruit to keep the vegetable or fruit from rotating when being held on the shaft.