Patent ID: 6048262
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: B24D

Abstract:
A honing device for culinary knives comprising:a vertically oriented handle assembly having a top end and a bottom end; said handle assembly having a first bore hole extending upwardly from its bottom end; said handle assembly having a vertically oriented handle portion having a top end and a bottom end; a knob portion having a bottom end is mounted on said top end of said handle portion; said knob portion having a width greater than the width of said handle portion;a vertically oriented frusto-conically shaped knife guide having a top end and a bottom end; said top end having a width W1 and said bottom end having a width W2 and W1 is greater than W2; a second bore hole extends upwardly from said bottom end to said top end;a vertically oriented elongated hone having a top end, a bottom end, a height H5, a width W3 and an outer surface; said hone is tubular from its top end to its bottom end; said hone being made of hard anodized aluminum material;means connecting said handle assembly and said knife guide to said top end of said hone comprising an elongated length of draw bar rod having a top end and a bottom end; said top end is received in said first bore hole of said handle portion and passes through said second bore hole of said knife guide; said draw bar having a length that passes downwardly through the length of said elongated hone;a friction tip; andmeans connecting said friction tip to said bottom end of said hone comprising a coupling having a top end and a bottom end; said coupling having a neck portion and a body portion; said neck portion being received in said bottom end of said tubular hone; said bottom end of said draw bar rod having an externally threaded tip that screws into said top end of said neck portion; said bottom end of said coupling having a recess that receives said friction tip.