Bottle cap removing cutlery

• US 9,434,060 B1
• Filed: 04/04/2014
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kevin Samuel Newburg, Stephen Henry Grinalds
• Original Assignee: Kevin Samuel Newburg, Stephen Henry Grinalds
• Inventors: Grinalds, Stephen Henry, Newburg, Kevin Samuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Shakeri, Hadi
• Application Number:
  US14/244,898
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 711/2, 711/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/02 Forks; Forks with ejectors; Combined forks and spoons; Salad servers
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/023 Forks; Forks with ejectors
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/04 Spoons; Pastry servers
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/06 Combined or separable sets of table-service utensils; Oyster knives with openers; Fish servers with means for removing bones kitchen equipment A47J
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 1/00 Combination or multi-purpose hand tools associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means B25F3/00; combined stapling and punching tools B25C5/0214
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 11/00 Hand knives combined with other implements, e.g. with corkscrew, with scissors, with writing implement combined table-ware A47G21/06

Abstract

A bottle cap removing cutlery is disclosed herein. The bottle cap removing cutlery comprises a main body, a cutlery member, a bottle cap opener. The cutlery member is preferably a knife, spoon, fork or like utensil. The bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout.

Claims

1. A bottle cap removing cutlery set comprising:

a plurality of bottle cap removing knifes, each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes comprising

main body,

a cutlery end comprising a knife member, and

a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,

wherein a sharp surface of the knife member is substantially perpendicular relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,

wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end;

a plurality of bottle cap removing spoons, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons comprising

a main body,

a cutlery end comprising a spoon member, and

a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,

wherein the spoon member is substantially parallel relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,

wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end;

a plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks comprising

a main body,

a cutlery end comprising a fork member, and

a bottle cap removing end comprising a bottle cap opener, wherein the bottle cap opener comprises a fulcrum portion, a lifting portion and an opener cutout,

wherein a plurality of prongs of the fork member is substantially parallel relative to the fulcrum portion of the bottle cap opener,

wherein the bottle cap removing end is thicker than the main body, and the main body is thicker than the cutlery end,

wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes has a center of gravity positioned approximately at the center of the main body and wherein the cutlery end is positioned at an opposite end of the main body from the bottle cap opening end.

2. The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes is composed of a material selected from stainless steel, silver, gold-plating, brass, tin, plastic and aluminum.

3. The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein the main body for each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes ranges from 30% to 80% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery, the corresponding bottle cap removing end ranges from 5% to 33% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery, and the corresponding cutlery end ranges from 5% to 33% of the length of the bottle cap removing cutlery.

4. The bottle cap removing cutlery set according to claim 1 wherein each of plurality of bottle cap removing forks, each of plurality of bottle cap removing spoons and each of plurality of bottle cap removing knifes has a length ranging from 5 inches to 12 inches.