Foldable utensil set
OwnerFrancis Fite, Ng Ming +1inventors
InventorsFrancis Fite, Ng Ming, Tang Ho
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Abstract
A foldable utensil set including a bowl, dish, cup and spoon each foldable from a prescored plastic sheet which is semitransparent to allow angled folds at the corner to be visible as an aesthetic feature. The rims of the bowl and cup have portions at two different levels to prevent liquid from reaching the level of the mating snaps used to secure the bowl and cup in the folded condition. The spoon is folded from a flat sheet having two contiguous sections scored so as to form a handle and bowl portion when folded. The dish has side edges stiffened with a fold over section which also holds the folds in position. Oval shaped scoring is provided as an aesthetic feature and to aid in forming corners on the utensils when being folded.
Claims14
A foldable vessel set comprising a foldable bowl, cup and dish, each formed of a sheet of plastic scored in a pattern such as to form overlapped triangular sections folded over at rounded corners, said plastic being semitransparent so that said overlapped sections and folded over sections are visible from inside through a portion of a plastic sheet over which said sections are folded.
A foldable utensil having an elongated handle and a bowl portion connected to said handle, said utensil foldable from a sheet of plastic cut and scored in a pattern enabling a handle and bowl to be simultaneously folded from said sheet, said sheet having four sides forming a generally rectangular section from which said elongated handle can be folded and a section contiguous to said one side of said handle section and having sides converging to a rounded end projecting away from said handle section.
A method of folding a spoon from a flat sheet of plastic by cutting said sheet to have a perimeter shape defining a generally rectangular handle section and a bowl section contiguous an end of said handle section said bowl section having a rounded tip at an end projecting away from said handle section;
- folding said handle section with three parallel folds between two opposite sides of said handle section to form a “W” shape which is collapsed together to form an elongated handle comprised of rectangular layers forming said “W” shape;
- simultaneously folding up sides of said bowl section while creating fold lines diverging from the center of one end of a ridge peak formed by said “W” shape to allow divergence of said folded up sides of said bowl shape.
A foldable vessel for holding a liquid comprising a plastic sheet having a plurality of sides defining a perimeter edge of said sheet;
- a series of scored folding lines defining a closed shape at a central region of said plastic sheet having a number of sides corresponding to the sides of the perimeter edge of said plastic sheet and extending in the same general direction as a respective side of said perimeter edge;
- a pair of scored folding lines diverging out from each corner of said closed shape to said perimeter edge to form a series of triangular flaps that when vessel sides defined between said triangular flaps are folded up can be folded over one of said adjacent sides and atop the adjacent sides;
- further including a mating set of snaps at the top of each of said sides in a region covered by said triangular flaps with an aligned hole therein to allow securement of said folded condition thereof, the improvement comprising an outwardly curving perimeter edge of at least one of two of the sides and an inwardly curving perimeter edge on at least one of the other sides so that a lower and an upper edge is created defining a rim of said folded vessel, the mating snap sets located at a higher level when said vessel is folded up to ensure that liquid cannot reach said snap set level.
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