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US5263754:
Barbed tweezers with magnifying glass
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Coleman, Kenneth J.; Crystal Lake, IL 60014
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1993-11-23
/ 1992-04-21
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| Application Number: |
US1992000871475
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A45D 26/00;
A61B 17/30;
A61B 19/00;
A61B 17/50;
IPC-7:
A45D 26/00;
A61B 17/28;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61B19/52; A45D26/00T; A61B17/30; K61B17/50; K61B19/52D6;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
294/099.2;
606/211;
Original:
294/099.2;
606/211;
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| Field of Search: |
294/033,99.2,902
606/205-207,210,211
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| Priority Number: |
| 1992-04-21 |
US1992000871475 |
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| Abstract: |
Tweezers have two arms mounted on a spacer with a barbed tip at the other end of the arms. The tweezers are sharpened to the barbed tip with a belt sanding apparatus, which includes a holding device for positioning the tweezers on the belt sanding apparatus. A magnifying lens may be mounted on the spacer and positioned over the barbed tip to assist in sighting the foreign object to be removed.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Perrone, Jr., Mathew R. P. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Cherry, Johnny D.;
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First Claim:
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What is claimed and sought to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. A tweezers for removing a foreign object from skin, wherein:
- a) said tweezers includes a spacer means, and a first arm and a second arm;
- b) said first arm has a first rounded end and a first barbed end oppositely disposed from said first rounded end;
- c) said second arm has a second rounded end and a second barbed end oppositely disposed from said second rounded end;
- d) said first rounded end and said second rounded end are secured to said spacer means;
- e) said first arm and said second arm are flexible;
- f) said first barbed end and said second barbed end are normally spaced apart by said spacer means;
- g) said first barbed end and said second barbed end combine to form a cone shape;
- h) the barbed tip serves to penetrate the skin, grip, and remove a foreign particle from the skin;
- i) said spacer means is a substantially cylindrical shape;
- j) said substantially cylindrical shape includes a top side and a bottom side;
- k) said first rounded end is adjacent to said top side;
- l) said second rounded end is adjacent to said bottom side; and
- m) said first arm and said second arm are substantially flat.
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