Patent ID: 9080767
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B26B,F23D

Abstract:
1. A wick trimmer, comprising: a pair of connected first and second trimmer arms; a first wick trimmer jaw carried by the first trimmer arm; a second wick trimmer jaw carried by the second trimmer arm, the first and second wick trimmer jaws selectively positional between an open position and a closed, wick cutting position; a first wick cutting blade having a first blade notch carried by the first wick trimmer jaw and a first wick groove in a center of the first blade notch; a second wick cutting blade having a second blade notch carried by the second wick trimmer jaw and a second wick groove in a center of the second blade notch, the second blade notch generally symmetrical to the first blade notch and the second wick groove in the second blade notch disposed in generally facing and offset relationship to the first wick groove in the first blade notch in the open position of the first and second wick trimmer jaws; the second wick groove in the second blade notch bypasses the first wick groove in the first blade notch as the first wick trimmer jaw and the second wick trimmer jaw move from the open position to the closed, wick cutting position; and each of the first wick trimmer jaw and the second wick trimmer jaw includes a pair of generally rectangular, planar, parallel, spaced-apart side jaw panels and a generally rectangular outer jaw panel extending between the side jaw panels, the outer jaw panel disposed in generally perpendicular relationship to the wick cutting blade and each of the side jaw panels; and the second wick trimmer jaw substantially contained within the first jaw interior of the first wick trimmer jaw and the side jaw panels of the second wick trimmer jaw engage the outer jaw panel of the first wick trimmer jaw in the closed, wick cutting position.