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US5076628:
Food handling tongs with serrated blade slots
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Rader, James A.; Branson, MO
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| Assignee: |
Peoples Leisure Products, Inc., Branson, MO
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| Published / Filed: |
1991-12-31
/ 1990-08-20
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| Application Number: |
US1990000569205
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47J 43/28;
Core:
A47J 43/00;
IPC-7:
A47J 43/28;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
294/008;
294/118;
Original:
294/008;
294/118;
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| Field of Search: |
294/007,8,8.5,11,16,25,28,50.8,106,118,902
030/124,142,325,351
099/380,394,450
100/213,234,235
D07/637,666,683,686-688
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| Priority Number: |
| 1990-08-20 |
US1990000569205 |
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| Abstract: |
Tongs for handling food items upon a grill in which the food gripping plates of the tongs are displaced laterally as well as apart when open to enable the user of the tongs to see the food item as it is being gripped by the tongs. The tongs plates each include a pair of serrated teeth defining slots. The teeth formed by the slots engage the food item as the plates are positioned in a food-gripping orientation relative to one another to restrict movement of the food item relative to the tongs.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Hall, James D. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Cherry, Johnny D.;
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First Claim:
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What I claim is:
1. Tongs for handling a food item upon a grill, said tongs comprising a pair of arms each having first and second ends, said arms overlapping at a corresponding location between said first and second ends, means pivotally connecting said arms together at said corresponding location, said first end of each arm being formed into cooperating handle means, a pair of plate members, one said plate member connected to each arm at its second end, said tongs having a closed food item gripping position wherein said plate members spacedly overlie one another in a generally superimposed orientation and an open position wherein said plate members are laterally offset and further spaced apart, said handle means for pivotally moving said arms about said pivot connecting means, said pivot means including means for shifting said arms in a plane extending at an acute angle to the plane of each plate member causing said plate members to be shifted laterally relative to each other between their open and closed positions with said lateral offset between the plate members when said tongs are in their open position permitting viewing of the food item as said item is being gripped, each of said plate members including a serrated slot, each serrated slot defined by an edge forming a plurality of spaced protrusion means, said protrusion means for engaging a food item positioned between the plate members as said plate members are shifted from their open position toward their closed food item gripping position to securely retain the food item between the plate members in said closed position.
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