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US7743690:
Thumb utensil with cutting board
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
White, Jackson Wells; Rock Hill, SC, United States of America
Philpott, Thomas James; Charlotte, NC, United States of America
Bizzell, Daniel Lee; Davidson, NC, United States of America
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| Assignee: |
Wonder Thumb Products, LLC, Rock Hill, SC, United States of America
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| Published / Filed: |
2010-06-29
/ 2008-09-05
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| Application Number: |
US2008000205415
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| IPC Code: |
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B26B 27/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A41D13/08B8; A47J43/28G;
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| U.S. Class: |
083/013;
030/279.6;
030/290;
030/291;
030/298;
030/123;
002/016;
002/021;
007/158;
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| Field of Search: |
030/290,291,298,123,279.6
0D3/028,29
223/101
269/003,289 R
002/021,159,160,161.1,161.2,161.6,163
602/021,22
128/879,880
D29/113,114
0D7/693
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| Abstract: |
An apparatus facilitating a cutting operation includes a knife; and a hand-mountable cutting board utensil. The utensil includes: a cutting board for disposition between the thumb and an index finger of the hand, the cutting board having an exposed cutting surface for orienting toward the index finger and a second surface for orienting toward the thumb; and a retainer having two lateral sides and being configured to receive and releasably retain the thumb along a longitudinal length of the retainer. The cutting board includes portions that extend transversely to a direction defined by the longitudinal length respectively beyond the two lateral sides of the retainer, each portion having exposed, oppositely facing front and back surfaces.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Tillman Wright, PLLC ;
Tillman, Chad D. ;
Doerre, Jeremy C. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Prone, Jason Daniel;
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None
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REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
The present application is a U.S. continuation-in-part patent application of, and claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to, U.S. nonprovisional patent application Ser. No. 11/205,847, filed Aug. 17, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,421,787, which nonprovisional patent application published as U.S. patent application publication number 2007/0039193, which patent, patent application and patent publication are incorporated by reference herein.
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1. A method of cutting, comprising the steps of: (a) mounting a cutting board utensil for protecting a digit of a hand onto a single digit of a hand, the hand-mountable cutting board utensil comprising, (i) a cutting board having an exposed cutting surface; and (ii) a retainer having two lateral sides and being configured to receive and releasably retain the digit along a longitudinal length of said retainer, said retainer being attached to said cutting board along a portion of said longitudinal length of said retainer, said longitudinal length of said retainer being greater than a majority of a longitudinal length of said cutting board; (iii) wherein said exposed cutting surface is uninterrupted for protection of the digit during cutting against said cutting surface; and (iv) wherein said cutting board includes first and second portions that extend transversely to a direction defined by said longitudinal length and that extend respectively beyond said two lateral sides of said retainer, each said portion having exposed, oppositely facing front and back surfaces; and (b) cutting against the cutting board of the hand-mountable cutting board utensil using a knife.
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