Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer

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Thanks in part to Sheffield’s banana slicer, Pathway now serves more than 500 daily and has helped over 22,000 people. Currently, banana chip slicer machines generally have the disadvantages of uneven slicing and low efficiency. Now 74 years old, Sheffield no longer makes money from the banana slicer, its patent having expired in 1999.

Having already spent long hours on the case, Sheffield eventually had to choose between yet another hearing or taking the bar, so he let the suit drop.After a polite back-and-forth led nowhere, he decided to sue for the lost sum, serving simultaneous depositions to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Swiss monastery, and Pope Paul VI. After graduating from Cal State–Long Beach with a degree in philosophy, he worked with former classmate Steven Spielberg on a yearlong film project, but just didn’t see promise in Hollywood.

Thanks to all of these great reviews, I now know what I am going to get my in-laws for Christmas this year. But none of this would compare to an invention he created in the hope of truly changing the world: the banana slicer.My husband was in so much pain he couldn't remember the safe word and we spent a really embarrassing night in the ER.