Inventors:
James F. Stewart - Boise ID
International Classification:
B65D 3528
Abstract:
A device for opening food pouches including a spring loaded handle provided with stripping rods and a pouch cutter. The stripping rods pivotally engage one another so that a heated food pouch may be grasped by the opening device in tongs-like manner. The stripping rods include opposing smooth planar abutting surfaces for stripping food away from the end of the pouch to be opened. A cutting blade, preferably hook-shaped in configuration and mounted adjacent the free end of one of the stripping rods is operable to slit the pouch, while the pouch is still in the grasp of the stripping rods, by retraction of the device relative to the pouch.