# Gilhoolie

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{{Short description|Jar opener}}
{{For|people with similar names|Gilhooley (disambiguation)|Gilhooly (disambiguation)}}

thumb|right|The Gilhoolie jar opener invented by Dr. C. W. Fuller

The '''Gilhoolie''' is a [kitchen appliance](/source/kitchen_appliance) that opens [jar](/source/jar)s and [bottle](/source/bottle)s.  It was invented by Dr. Charles W. Fuller, a retired dentist from [Yonkers, New York](/source/Yonkers%2C_New_York).  

The Gilhoolie debuted in 1953.<ref>Mechanix Illustrated, ''This Month's Prize Gadget: Gilhoolie Jar Opener'', 1953, 81.</ref> Fuller applied for a United States patent on the Gilhoolie, identified as a "cam operated sliding jaw closure remover", in 1952, and the patent was granted in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dld58/652/gilhoolie.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512001314/http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dld58/652/gilhoolie.html|archivedate=2016-05-12|accessdate=2019-02-16|work= Kitchets|title=The Gilhoolie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US2669142A/en|accessdate=2019-02-16|work=Google Patents|date=1954-02-16|title=US Patent 2,669,142}}</ref>  Although Fuller held more than a dozen patents in the fields of dentistry and golf, the Gilhoolie patent was his only patent for a kitchen device.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Clarence+W+Fuller&num=25|work=Google Patents|accessdate=2019-02-16|title=Inventor: Charles W. Fuller}}</ref>

For several years, the Gilhoolie was sold through mail order by the Riswell Company of [Cos Cob](/source/Cos_Cob%2C_Connecticut), [Greenwich, Connecticut](/source/Greenwich%2C_Connecticut).<ref>{{Cite news|magazine=Billboard|date=1959-05-25|page=84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uB4EAAAAMBAJ|title=Opener}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Jar opener](/source/Jar_opener)

==References==
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==External links==
* 1954 [http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat2669142.pdf patent]

Category:American inventions

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