Patent ID: 7080454
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A device for use in removing a meat of a piece of fruit from a skin of the piece of fruit after the meat has been exposed, the device comprising: a handle portion adapted to allow an individual to manually manipulate the device using one hand; and a working portion having an elongated blade and a pair of lateral extensions coupling opposing ends of the elongated blade to the handle portion a part of the handle portion overlapping at leastone of the lateral extentions, the elongated blade having a cross-sectional shape adapted to facilitate movement of the elongated blade through the meat of the fruit, the working portion having a resting configuration in which the elongated blade has a first radius of curvature, at least one of the lateral extensions being manipulable under a direct manual force during use to deform the working portion from the resting configuration to a displaced configuration in which the elongated blade has a second radius of curvature, one of the lateral extension being sufficiently proximate the other of the lateral extensions to allow the individual to selectively conform the curvature of the elongated blade to the curvature of the skin, using the one hand, before and as the elongated blade moves through the meat of the fruit, the working portion comprising a resilient material such that, when the manual force is removed from the at least one lateral extension, the working portion will automatically return to the resting configuration.