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 Title: |
US3637248:
HOLDER FOR CHOPSTICKS
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Arita, Miyoichi; Honolulu, HI 96817
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1972-01-25
/ 1969-12-09
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| Application Number: |
US1969000883504
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47G 21/06;
Core:
A47G 21/00;
IPC-7:
A47G 21/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
294/099.2;
0D7/686;
Original:
294/016;
294/099;
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| Field of Search: |
081/417,427
030/323,327
287/086
248/079,301,302,359,360
294/003,1,16,99
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| Priority Number: |
| 1969-12-09 |
US1969000883504 |
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| Abstract: |
A pair of spaced upstanding downwardly tapering sleeve portions interconnected by an integral inverted U-shaped bow spring portion including a pair of depending legs whose lower ends are joined to adjacent side portions of the upper ends of the sleeve portions. The sleeve portions are adapted to have all but the upper end portions of a pair of chopsticks downwardly inserted therethrough with the upper end portions of the chopsticks wedgingly received in the sleeve portions. Further, the bow spring serves to yieldingly bias the lower ends of the sleeve portions upwardly and away from each other, whereby the chopsticks supported from the holder may be readily supported by inexperienced persons merely by finger contact with the remote surfaces of the chopsticks below their points of support from the tapered sleeve portions of the holder.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
OBrien, Clarence A. ;
Jacobson, Harvey B. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Schultz, William H.;
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| Family: |
None
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| Claim |
What is claimed as new is as follows:
1. In combination, a pair of upstanding spaced-apart sleeve portions generally rectangular in cross section and interconnected by means of a bow spring, said bow spring being generally inverted U-shaped in configuration defining a pair of upstanding legs interconnected at their upper ends by means of an upwardly convex arcuate portion, the lower ends of said legs being secured to the upper extremities of the adjacent sides of said sleeve portions, said sleeve portions being internally downwardly tapered, a pair of upstanding downwardly tapering chopsticks, said chopsticks being generally rectangular in cross-sectional shape and downwardly seatingly received in and extending through said sleeve portions with the upper ends of said chopsticks projecting upwardly above the uppermost portions of said sleeve portions and said bow spring and the lower extremities of the chopsticks projecting downwardly below said sleeve portions, said bow spring comprising a strip of spring sheet metal and said sleeve portions comprise enlarged integral sheet metal end portions at the opposite ends of said bow spring each including opposite side portions projecting outwardly from the opposite side edges of the corresponding end of said sheet metal strip, each of said enlarged end portions having a pair of opposite side right angles bends formed therein along bend lines extending along and slightly convergent toward the corresponding end of the sheet metal strip, whereby said sleeve portions are formed.
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