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US4768288:
Salad tongs
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Culbertson, William H.; Ashland, KY
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| Assignee: |
World Tableware International, Inc., Wallingford, CT
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| Published / Filed: |
1988-09-06
/ 1986-08-25
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| Application Number: |
US1986000899726
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47G 21/02;
A47G 21/10;
A47J 43/28;
Core:
A47G 21/00;
A47J 43/00;
IPC-7:
B25F 3/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
030/142;
294/003;
294/025;
294/033;
294/099.2;
294/131;
Original:
030/142;
294/003;
294/033;
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| Field of Search: |
030/323,142
294/003,5,8.5,11,15,16
D07/105
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| Priority Number: |
| 1986-08-25 |
US1986000899726 |
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| Abstract: |
A salad tong having a pair of resilient gripping arms and a hand guard assembly. The hand guard assembly may be in the form of a U-shaped guard having a front wall with the rear ends of the tong extending through a slot therein and having a rear wall with a slot through which the rear end of the salad tong extends, with a locking pin to hold the salad tongs in position. Alternately, the hand guard assembly is in the form of a separate hand grip on each arm.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Hayes & Reinsmith ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Kazenske, E. R.; Fridie, Jr., Willmon
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property of privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. Salad tongs comprising a pair of resilient gripping arms each arm having a front jaw and a rear end, a hand guard assembly, said hand guard assembly having a front wall, the arms of the tong extending through a slot in said front wall, means to prevent the arms from moving out of the slot in the front wall, said hand guard assembly having a rear wall having a slot through which the said rear ends of the arms extend.
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