US849005A - Kitchen implement. - Google Patents

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R. H. MEYER. KITCHEN IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APRI21. 1906.

PA'TENTBD APR.2, 190v;

WITNESSES.

a I 3 y mi min-iron;

' resident of Knoxville, in the county of Allev ing its bottom recessed or grooved, as at 2.

as indicated in Fig. 2. The end of this hand trating the use of the same as a box-opener.

like.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. RUDOLPH MEYER, OF KNOXIFIILE, PENNSYLVANIA.

KITCHEN IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed April 21. 1906. Serial No. 313,025.

Patented April 2, 1907.

To all toll/0m it 1111/1/71 concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH H. MEYER, a l

gheny and State of Pennsylvania, have in-i vented a new and useful Improvement in I Kitchen Implements; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relatesto a combination implement for kitchen and similar use.

The object is to provide an implement of this character of convenient form and capable of several uses.

In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective View showing the bottom of the implement. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the same i when used as a can-opener. F 3 is a similar view showing the same used as a bottleopener, and Fig. 4 is a similar view illus- The implement comprises a body or handle portion 1, rounded on its upper face and hav-i At one end the body is provided with a down turned portion 3, which serves as a fulcrum fer the can-opening blade 4, the latter having its cutting edge 5 on its upper edge. The fulcrum edge 6 is quite acute or sharp, as shown, so as to bite into the metal of the can.. A guide-lip 7 is also provided.

At its opposite end the body is provided with a downwardl -inclined portion 8, whose outer face is rounded to serve as a hand-rest,-

rest is pointed, as at 9, and can be used for various purposes, such as opening cigar-boxes or lifting the lids of air-tlght cans and the Substantially midway of the handle and at one side thereof is a lug 10, which serves as a finger-grip when the implement is used as a can-opener, as shown in Fig. 2, and also when used as a box-opener. Pivoted to this lug 1s a corkscrew 11, which normally hes in the hollow or groove portion of the handle, with its shank in a notch 12, but which is adapted to be turned at right angles to the handle and snap into a notch 13 in the lug 10. The metal of the corkscrew is sufficiently resilient to cause it to engage the two notches 12 and 13 and to be held firmly therein.

Cooperating with the inner inclined face 14 of the downturned portion Sis a shoulder 15, {which is adapted to engage the lower edge of a metal bottle-cap, the inclined face 14 resting on the top thereof, as shown in Fig. 3, so that i by a slight upward movement on the handle said cap can be removed; This shoulder, together with the edge portion adjacent thereto, may be used to draw tacks and small nails.

The implement described is compact and neat of appearance and contains a number of different implements combined for convenient use. The body may be either a casting or a stamped sheet-metal piece.

What I claim is- 1. A combination implement comprising a handle having one end turned at a sharp angle ending in a flat point and having a flat inclined lower face, and a shoulder on the lower edge of the handle cooperating with said inclined lower face, said shoulder on its lower edge slopingfrom its end toward the handle.

2. A combination implement comprising a handle having one end turned at a sharp angle and provided with an outer rounded face,- a flat sharp point and a flat inclined lower face, and a shoulder on the lower edge of the handle cooperating with said inclined lower face.

In testimony whereof I, the said RUDOLPH H. MEYER, have hereunto set my hand.

RUDOLPH H. MEYER.

. Vitnesses:

F. W. WINTER,

ROBERT C. TOTTEN.

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