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 Title: |
US5542181:
Interior cutting edge fork utensil
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Gaylord, Caroline J.; Chesterton, IN 46304
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1996-08-06
/ 1995-07-31
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| Application Number: |
US1995000509496
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47G 21/02;
Core:
A47G 21/00;
IPC-7:
A47J 43/28;
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| ECLA Code: |
A47G21/02;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
030/148;
030/322;
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030/148;
030/322;
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| Field of Search: |
030/137,148,322
D07/653
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| Priority Number: |
| 1995-07-31 |
US1995000509496 |
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| Abstract: |
A utensil for cutting an impaling food objects. The inventive device includes an elongated handle having a plurality of tines projecting therefrom. Lateral cutting edges extend along interior edges of the tines for engaging and cutting a food object such that a severed portion thereof can be engaged by the tines for manual manipulation by the handle.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Payer, Hwel-Siu;
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None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:
1. An interior cutting edge fork utensil comprising:
- an elongated handle for being grasped and manipulated by an individual, the handle having a center tine, first lateral tine and a second lateral tine, each tine projecting from a first end of the handle, the center tine being oriented so as to extend substantially collinearly form the handle, the first lateral tine extending from the handle along a first lateral side of the center tine, the second lateral tine extending from the handle along a second lateral side of the center tine, the first and second lateral tines being spaced from the center tine so as to define slots directed therebetween;
- a first lateral cutting edge extending along an interior edge of the first lateral tine;
- a second lateral cutting edge extending along an interior edge of the second lateral tine, the first lateral cutting edge and the second lateral cutting edge each face the center tine; and
- a first U-shaped cutting edge extending between the interior edge of the first lateral tine and a first interior edge of the center tine, and a second U-shaped cutting edge extending between the interior edge of the second lateral tine and a second interior edge of the center tine.
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