On this day in 1949 Victor E. Murray was granted the patent for EGG OPENER WITH AN ANNULAR CUTTING FLANGE AND SUCTION CUP HOLDER. U.S. Patent No. 2,457,912.
This invention relates to egg openers and has for an object the provision of a simple and inexpensively constructed implement whereby an egg may be quickly served on a similar diameter thereof, and its contents emptied whereupon the shell maybe ejected from the implement.
Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the class referred to which may be manipulated in a cleanly fashion soiling the fingers and without danger of dropping pieces of the egg shell into the contents thereof during operation.
Still another object of the invention is to provide means to handle and open a hot egg without burning ones fingers.
