Patent ID: 6360442
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A knife for preparing citrus fruit comprising:an elongated, hand-graspable handle member having opposite end regions, said handle member being transversely thickened in a portion of each of said opposite end regions; first and second blade members, each one connected to a different one of said opposite end regions and extending outwardly in generally opposed relationship to each other; said first blade member having a first stem portion adjacent to said handle member and having a flattened elongated first blade portion projecting from and connected to said first stem portion; said first blade portion being longitudinally bifurcated so as to define first and second elongated blade sections that are in adjacent, transversely spaced, parallel relationship relative to each other with a slotted gap therebetween; said first blade section having a first cutting surface extending along an outside edge portion thereof; said second section having a second cutting surface extending along an inside edge portion thereof; said second cutting surface being generally in adjacent spaced parallel relationship to said first cutting surface so that said first and said second cutting surfaces cut in the same direction; said second blade member having a second stem portion adjacent to said handle member and having an elongated, longitudinally and transversely curved second blade portion projecting from and connected to said second stem portion; said second blade portion having: a transversely broadened base region adjacent said second stem portion whose width approximates the width of a citrus fruit segment; an outermost terminal pointed region; and opposed side edges that symmetrically taper from said base region to meet at said pointed region; said opposite side edges each having a cutting surface extending therealong; said second stem portion having a configuration such that said base region is offset from said handle member; said second blade portion having defined therein a first angle adjacent to said second stem portion and relative to said handle member and a second angle adjacent to said base region that inclines said second stem portion relative to said curved second blade portion; and said second blade member having a relatively small aperture means defined therethrough in the region where said second stem portion and said second blade portion so connect.