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Abstract

A pepper grinding tool with a sideways projecting lever operated with a single hand includes a housing consisting of both an upper part and a lower part, a lever, a grinding assembly and an one-way member. The housing has a first portion and a second elongated portion projecting sideways from the first portion and having a lateral opening. The lever has teeth on a front end, and is pivoted to the elongated portion with the teeth facing the first portion and with a rear portion being biased outwardly of the lateral opening by a spring. The one-way member is turnably received in the first portion of the housing, and has a toothed round part abutting the teeth of the lever. The main body is connected to a shaft, of which the lower end is connected to an inner grinding part of the grinding assembly, in such a way that the shaft can turn together with the round part only when the lever rear portion is pivoted outwardly of the opening to force the toothed round part to turn clockwise, i.e. when the user pushes the lever rear portion into the opening and releases the same repeatedly, the inner grinding element is turned clockwise so as to grind pepper distributed between the same and an outer grinding element, which is fixedly received in the first portion of the housing and mounted on the inner grinding element.

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