A knife sharpener of the present disclosure comprises a housing defining a hollow interior and an interchangeable knife guide cartridge releaseably coupled to the housing. The interchangeable knife guide cartridge improves an operation and a versatility of the sharpener, while optimizing knife blade sharpening. A motor assembly is disposed in the hollow interior of the housing and includes a drive shaft operably coupled to at least one sharpening disk and at least one stropping disk. The disks cooperate with the interchangeable knife guide cartridge to achieve a desired edge angle of the knife blade.
A knife sharpener of the present disclosure comprises a housing defining a hollow interior and an interchangeable knife guide cartridge releaseably coupled to the housing. The interchangeable knife guide cartridge improves an operation and a versatility of the sharpener, while optimizing knife blade sharpening. A motor assembly is disposed in the hollow interior of the housing and includes a drive shaft operably coupled to at least one sharpening disk and at least one stropping disk. The disks cooperate with the interchangeable knife guide cartridge to achieve a desired edge angle of the knife blade.
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(1) Air fryers; barbecue grills; barbecues and grills; deep fat fryers; electric air fryers; electric coffee makers;electric deep fryers; electric egg cookers; electric sandwich toasters; electric tea kettles; electric tea pot;electric toaster ovens; electric toasters; electric waffle irons; oil-free fryers, electric;
Barbecue grills; Barbecues and grills; Electric coffee makers; Electric egg cookers; Electric tea kettles; Electric tea pots; Air fryers; Deep fryer, electric; Deep fat fryers; Electric fryers; Electric toaster ovens; Electric toasters; Electric waffle irons; Electric sandwich toasters.
Barbecue grills; Barbecues and grills; Electric coffee makers; Electric egg cookers; Electric tea kettles; Electric tea pots; Air fryers; Deep fryer, electric; Deep fat fryers; Electric fryers; Electric toaster ovens; Electric toasters; Electric waffle irons; Electric sandwich toasters
A knife sharpener comprises a grinding surface for grinding a blade of the knife when the blade is moved relative to the grinding surface and an observation device including a sensor element and a display element. The sensor element is configured to observe the blade and to collect data regarding the blade when the blade is moved relative to the sensor element. The display element is configured to communicate a condition of the blade to an operator of the observation device. The condition of the blade is based on the data collected by the sensor element when the blade is moved relative to the sensor element.
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A sharpening tool having a handle having a variable speed switch and a support grip, a removable universal tool adapter rotatably coupled to the handle, a locking feature for locking a position of the removable universal tool adapter, and a motor for driving a tool coupled to the removable universal tool adapter.
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B26D 7/12 - Means for treating work or cutting member to facilitate cutting by sharpening the cutting member
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A sharpening tool having a handle having a variable speed switch and a support grip, a removable universal tool adapter rotatably coupled to the handle, a locking feature for locking a position of the removable universal tool adapter, and a motor for driving a tool coupled to the removable universal tool adapter.
Electric food slicers; Electric knife sharpeners; Meat and food grinder attachments for electric mixers for household use Hand-operated sharpening tools and instruments; Kitchen knives; Knife sharpeners; Hand tools, namely, knife sharpeners; Non-electric food slicers
Electric food slicers; Electric knife sharpeners; Meat and food grinder attachments for electric mixers for household use Kitchen knives; Knife sharpeners; Manually operated sharpeners; Hand tools, namely, knife sharpeners; Hand-operated sharpening tools and instruments; Non-electric food slicers Waffle irons, electric; Barbecue grills; Barbecues and grills; Electric egg cookers; Electric tea kettles
The knife sharpener has at least one sharpening stage with guide structure in the stage, the guide structure comprising a fixed guide surface and a spring having a guide surface forming a slot. The slot has an upper end and a lower end for guiding a knife blade against a sharpening member. The fixed guide surface has a non-planar portion for being disposed at a hollow ground portion of the knife blade, the non-planar portion being formed by the fixed guide surface having an upper segment at the upper end of the slot, the upper segment merging into an intermediate segment which merges into a lower segment, the intermediate segment extending from the upper segment in a direction away from the spring guide surface and then in a direction toward the spring guide surface to merge with the lower segment, the lower segment being at the lower end of the slot near the sharpening member, and the spring guide surface having a portion for pressing against a hollow ground portion of an opposite side of the knife blade.
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A manual sharpener includes at least one pre-sharpening stage having interdigitating comb-like abrasive sharpening structure. The sharpener also includes a finishing stage having a pair of abrasive surfaced truncated conical disks as its sharpening structure. The disks are mounted on a rotatable shaft with the small ends of the disks in contact, with each other.
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A knife sharpener includes guide structure for accommodating thick blades of a knife. The guide structure includes a fixed guide surface having a convex portion to match a concave shape of the blade and a spring guide surface preferably has a convex portion to press against a hollow ground portion of the blade.
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A knife sharpener includes guide structure for accommodating thick blades of a knife. The guide structure includes a fixed guide surface having a. convex portion to match a concave shape of the blade and a spring guide surface preferably has a convex portion to press against a hollow ground portion of the blade.
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An electric sharpener for sharpening ceramic blades includes at least one stage, The stage is a finishing station having a sharpening member in the form of a disc which comprises a rigid support having a flexible abrasive matrix which both sharpens and polishes the facet of the ceramic blade. The sharpener may include a pre-sharpening stage for metal blades and a further pre-sharpening stage for ceramic blades. The sharpener also includes a removable guide.
A combination sharpener assembly which is particularly useful for fishermen, includes an electrically powered knife sharpener. A manually operated scissors sharpener is mounted in the recess of the housing for the knife sharpener. A hook sharpener is detachably mounted in a compartment in the housing of the knife sharpener. The motor for the knife sharpener is mounted in a sealed inner housing and can be selectively operated under either direct current or alternating current.
An electrically powered knife sharpener for ceramic (or other brittle, crystalline or amorphous media which could be used for blades) knives includes at least one pre-sharpening stage with a sharpening member(s) and includes a final stage with a sharpening member(s). There are one or more motor driven shafts on which the abrasive surfaced sharpening members, such as disks, are mounted. Guide structure is provided to guide the knife for aligning and positioning the knife facet precisely at a defined location on the abrasive surface of each rotating sharpening member. The pre-sharpening stage sharpening member(s) moves in a first direction. The final stage sharpening member(s) moves in a second direction which differs from the first direction.
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Electric food grinders for commercial and domestic use;
electric meat slicers, electric food processors and mixers;
electric knife sharpener. Fabric covers for kitchen utensils, namely, knife rolls,
covers for knives; kitchen knives; manual sharpeners for
knives and other cutting tools.
An apparatus for manually steeling or conditioning the edge of a knife blade comprises a precision angle guide attached to a manual sharpening steel. The angle guide establishes a guiding surface that provides for sustained sliding or rolling contact with the face of the knife blade such that the plane of at least one edge facet adjacent to the edge of the blade is maintained at a precisely established angle relative to the plane of the sharpening steel surface at the contact point of the facet with the surface of the sharpening steel.
A knife sharpener sharpens a wide range of knives and blades. The knife sharpener includes an angle guide associated with a first stage abrasive surface at an angle in the range of 12-18 degrees. A second stage is provided at an angle in the range of 17-23 degrees. A third stage is provided at an angle in the range of 19-25 degrees. The abrasive surface in the first and second stages is in the range of 240 to 400 grit while the abrasives in the third stage is in the range of 600 to 2000 grit.
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KNIFE SHARPENER FOR ASIAN AND EUROPEAN/AMERICAN KNIVES
A knife sharpener sharpens a wide range of knives and blades. The knife sharpener includes an angle guide associated with a first stage abrasive surface at an angle in the range of 12-18 degrees. A second stage is provided at an angle in the range of 17-23 degrees. A third stage is provided at an angle in the range of 19-25 degrees. The abrasive surface in the first and second stages is in the range of 240 to 400 grit while the abrasives in the third stage is in the range of 600 to 2000 grit.
A knife sharpener sharpens a wide range of knives and blades. The knife sharpener includes an angle guide associated with a first stage abrasive surface at an angle in the range of 12-18 degrees. A second stage is provided at an angle in the range of 17-23 degrees. A third stage is provided at an angle in the range of 19-25 degrees. The abrasive surface in the first and second stages is in the range of 240 to 400 grit while the abrasives in the third stage is in the range of 600 to 2000 grit.
A knife sharpener sharpens a wide range of knives and blades. The knife sharpener includes an angle guide associated with a first stage abrasive surface at an angle in the range of 12-18 degrees. A second stage is provided at an angle in the range of 17-23 degrees. A third stage is provided at an angle in the range of 19-25 degrees. The abrasive surface in the first and second stages is in the range of 240 to 400 grit while the abrasives in the third stage is in the range of 600 to 2000 grit.
A sharpener for creating cross-grind knife edges includes a nominally flat annular abrasive sharpening member which could be a ring or a disk and is rotated about its center and held against a moving knife edge facet to simultaneously and sequentially abrade the knife edge at multiple locations on the abrasive member. The disk may be slidably mounted on a shaft in opposition to a spring restraining force. The disk is nominally disposed in a vertical orientation. The sharpener may include multiple stages including a manual stage having a pair of off axis conical shaped rotatable abrasive coated disks which have abrading lines on opposing facets which are not parallel but cross and intersect in a crossing pattern at the blade edge.
A sharpener for creating cross-grind knife edges includes a nominally flat annular abrasive sharpening member which could be a ring or a disk and is rotated about its center and held against a moving knife edge facet to simultaneously and sequentially abrade the knife edge at multiple locations on the abrasive member. The disk may be slidably mounted on a shaft in opposition to a spring restraining force. The disk is nominally disposed in a vertical orientation. The sharpener may include multiple stages including a manual stage having a pair of off axis conical shaped rotatable abrasive coated disks which have abrading lines on opposing facets which are not parallel but cross and intersect in a crossing pattern at the blade edge.
A sharpener for creating cross-grind knife edges includes a nominally flat annular abrasive sharpening member which could be a ring or a disk and is rotated about its center and held against a moving knife edge facet to simultaneously and sequentially abrade the knife edge at multiple locations on the abrasive member. The disk may be slidably mounted on a shaft in opposition to a spring restraining force. The disk is nominally disposed in a vertical orientation. The sharpener may include multiple stages including a manual stage having a pair of off axis conical shaped rotatable abrasive coated disks which have abrading lines on opposing facets which are not parallel but cross and intersect in a crossing pattern at the blade edge.
A sharpener for creating cross-grind knife edges includes a nominally flat annular abrasive sharpening member which could be a ring or a disk and is rotated about its center and held against a moving knife edge facet to simultaneously and sequentially abrade the knife edge at multiple locations on the abrasive member. The disk may be slidably mounted on a shaft in opposition to a spring restraining force. The disk is nominally disposed in a vertical orientation. The sharpener may include multiple stages including a manual stage having a pair of off axis conical shaped rotatable abrasive coated disks which have abrading lines on opposing facets which are not parallel but cross and intersect in a crossing pattern at the blade edge.
abrasive sharpening disks sold as an integral component of electric knife and scissor sharpeners abrasive sharpening disks sold as an integral component of manually operated sharpeners
A vessel for preparing heated water or other liquid includes a container, an electric heater and a temperature sensing probe mounted through a wall of the container. The probe includes an efficient heat transferring structure in direct thermal contact with and wet by the liquid. An electrical sensor within the probe is in intimate thermal contact with the transferring structure and has electrical properties directly correlating with the temperature of the transferring structure. The transferring structure is attached to a supporting structure mounted to the wall by an elastomeric efficient thermal insulating material held in compression providing physical support for the probe and sealing the wall from leaking and insuring that the sensor is primarily thermally responsive to the temperature of the transferring surface and to the liquid but is thermally insulated from variations in the temperature of the supporting wall.
A vessel for the preparation of heated water or liquid based material includes a container for the liquid, an electric heater and a temperature sensing probe mounted through a wall or base of the container. The probe Includes an efficient heat transferring structure in direct thermal contact with and wet by the liquid inside the container. An electrical sensor within the probe is an intimate thermal contact with the efficient heat transfer structure and has electrical properties which directly correlate with the temperature of the heat transferring structure. The heat transferring structure is attached to a supporting structure mounted to the wall or base by an elastomeric efficient thermal insulating material held in compression to provide physical support for the probe and to seal the wall from leaking and to Insure that the sensor is primarily thermally responsive to the temperature of the heat transferring surface and to the liquid.
An electric knife sharpener can selectively sharpen either Asian or Euro- American style knives, The sharpener includes first, second and third stages. The first stage has a spring biased rotatable abrasive surfaced disk and a guide corresponding to an Asian knife. The second stage has a spring biased rotatable abrasive surfaced disk and a guide corresponding to a Euro-American knife which is greater than the Asian knife angle. The third stage has a spring biased rotatable abrasive surface disk and a guide surface at an angle of 19-25 degrees, and which is at least as great as the angle of the second stage. The spring bias in each stage is less than 0.6 pounds.
A wide range of knives and blades, including Western, Asian or traditional Japanese style blades that have a primary edge facet on at least one side of the knife edge are sharpened through use of an electric knife sharpener having a first sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surface disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a first relative angle of approximately 15 degrees as it contacts the moving abrasive surface. The knife sharpener includes a second sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surfaced disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a second relative angle of approximately 20 degrees as it contacts the rotating abrasive surface. The knife sharpener also has a third stropping stage with at least one rotating stropping disk containing abrasive particles of less than 1 thousandth of inch diameter and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a third relative angle larger than the first and second angles as it contacts the rotating surface of the stropping disk. The rotating sharpening and stropping disks are displaceable from a rest position against specific restraining forces when contacted by the edge facet being sharpened or stropped.
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SHARPENER FOR KNIVES WITH WIDELY DIFFERENT EDGE ANGLES
A wide range of knives and blades, including Western, Asian or traditional Japanese style blades that have a primary edge facet on at least one side of the knife edge are sharpened through use of an electric knife sharpener having a first sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surface disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a first relative angle of approximately 15 degrees as it contacts the moving abrasive surface. The knife sharpener includes a second sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surfaced disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a second relative angle of approximately 20 degrees as it contacts the rotating abrasive surface. The knife sharpener also has a third stropping stage with at least one rotating stropping disk containing abrasive particles of less than 1 thousandth of inch diameter and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a third relative angle larger than the first and second angles as it contacts the rotating surface of the stropping disk. The rotating sharpening and stropping disks are displaceable from a rest position against specific restraining forces when contacted by the edge facet being sharpened or stropped.
A knife edge enhancing apparatus includes a support having a support surface and knife blade clamping structure mounted to the support and located above the support surface. An object having a knife edge modifying surface which could be abrasive or non-abrasive is mounted to a holder which is freely slidable on the support surface so that the object surface can be manually moved into contact with a knife edge facet. At least one of the clamping structure and the object surface is angularly adjustable to control the angle of contact of the object surface with the knife edge facet.
A knife sharpener is provided capable of precision sharpening knives having a first and second blade face wherein the first blade face has a lower section set at an angle to the center line of the blade thickness that is different from the angle of the adjoining upper section of the blade face The sharpener includes a sharpening member with an abrasive surface, a knife guide surface designed for intimate sliding and sustaining contact with the second blade face in order to position an edge facet on the first face into precise angular relation with the sharpening surface, a spring that applies force against lower section of the first blade face to align and remain in intimate sliding alignment with the guide surface as the edge facet on the first blade face is being sharpened.
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A knife sharpener is provided which is capable of precision sharpening of hunting and similar knives that have a first and second blade face, each of which terminates at a facet that meets the corresponding facet to create the knife edge. At least the first of the blade faces has a lower distinct planar or concave section adjacent the edge facet with the lower planar or concave section of the face being set at an angle to the center line of the blade thickness that is different from the angle of the adjoining upper section of the same blade face located adjacent to the back of the blade. The sharpener includes a sharpening member such as one having an abrasive coated surface. The sharpener also includes a planar angle knife guide surface of a knife guide which is designed for intimate sliding and sustaining contact with the second face of the blade in order to position an edge facet on the first of the faces into precise angular relation with the sharpening surface. The sharpener also includes a knife holding spring that applies force against the first face of the blade predominantly at one or more locations on the lower planar or concave section of the first face that is adjacent to the edge facet being sharpened in order that the lower section adjacent the edge on the second face of the blade is pressured to align with and remain in intimate sliding alignment with the guide surface as the blade edge facet on the first face is being sharpened.
Various forms of knife guides are provided for knife sharpeners to minimize damage to the knife blade. One of the forms of knife guides comprises non-contact optical arrangements which includes a light source, at least one light detector and an indicator that monitors and displays the intensity of light reflected from the blade surface.
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A sharpener to sharpen the edge of a food slicer blade (3) includes a non-planar abrasive surfaced rotatable disk (21) mounted on a supporting structure. The supporting structure includes one or more surfaces designed to align with at least one of a push bar (1 1), thickness control plate (49) and the surface of the food carriage (13) of the food slicer when the abrasive surface of the disk is in contact with the edge of the slicer blade.
Various forms of knife guides are provided for knife sharpeners to minimize damage to the knife blade (3). The knife guides includes provision of flexible fibers (27) on the guide surface (37), or further include rings (15), such as O-rings, on an array of rollers (2) when the rollers are used to form the guide surface Other forms of knife guides are non-contact optical arrangements (45)
A sharpener to sharpen the edge of a food slicer blade includes a non-planar abrasive surfaced rotatable disk mounted on a supporting structure. The supporting structure includes one or more surfaces designed to align with at least one of a push bar, thickness control plate and the surface of the food carriage of the food slicer when the abrasive surface of the disk is in contact with the edge of the slicer blade.
Various forms of knife guides are provided for knife sharpeners to minimize damage to the knife blade. The knife guides include the provision of flexible fibers on the guide surface and further include rings, such as O-rings on an array of rollers when the rollers are used to form the guide surface. Other forms of knife guides are non-contact optical arrangements.
A food slicer comprises a fan-cooled electrically powered motor driving a slicer blade. The motor is mounted within an enclosure which comprises at least one air intake port and at least one exhaust port on opposite sides of one nominally air-tight first partitioning wall within the enclosure to confine the flow of cooling air from the air intake port through the enclosure, then into intimate contact with the electrical windings and components within the frame of the motor. The motor frame is sealed into a closely conforming contacting aperture in the first partitioning wall. The fan is mounted immediately adjacent to a non-contacting aperture in a second partitioning wall within the enclosure juxtaposed the exhaust port.
A modified truncated cone-shaped disk is molded onto a plastic hub which is mounted on a motor driven shaft. The hub has an axial bore of a size to fit with very close clearance on the shaft while still permitting the disk to freely slide against a low spring force.
A modified truncated cone-shaped disk is molded onto a plastic hub which is mounted on a motor driven shaft. The hub has an axial bore of a size to fit with very close clearance on the shaft while still permitting the disk to freely slide against a low spring force.
A waffle maker has upper and lower baking plates, each of which is powered with at least one heating element for baking a waffle. A power control unit responds to a temperature sensing unit to control power applied to the heaters, and to maintain the heating plates both before and after each baking cycle at a manually pre-selected temperature. A manually adjustable timer controls the duration of the baking cycle.
