Disposable stackable forks
AssigneeGadsden Coffee Company Inc.
InventorDavid B. McFarland
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Abstract
At least one aspect, a disposable stackable plastic fork is provided. The disposable plastic fork, having a top surface and a bottom surface, comprises a handle portion; a plurality of tines, each tine of the plurality of tines having a curved shaped configuration and a longitudinal concave groove extending at least partially along a horizontal length of the each tine; and a transition portion integrally connected between the handle portion and the plurality of tines. The bottom surface of the fork has a curved profile and the top surface has a corresponding curved indentation.
Claims20
A stackable plastic fork, having a top surface and a bottom surface, comprising:
- a handle portion;
- a plurality of tines, each tine of the plurality of tines having a curved shaped configuration and a longitudinal concave groove extending at least partially along a horizontal length of the each tine;
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- a transition portion integrally connected between the handle portion and the plurality of tines;
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- wherein the bottom surface of the fork has a curved profile and the top surface has a corresponding curved indentation.
A stackable plastic fork, having a top surface and a bottom surface, comprising:
- a handle portion;
- a plurality of tines having a curved shaped configuration and a pair of outer tines and at least one inner tine, each outer tine in the pair of outer tines having an outer longitudinal concave groove and the at least one inner tine have an inner longitudinal groove, the outer and inner longitudinal concave grooves extending at least partially along a horizontal length of the plurality of tines;
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- a transition portion integrally connected between the handle portion and the plurality of tines;
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- wherein the bottom surface of the fork has a curved profile and the top surface has a corresponding curved indentation;
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- wherein the outer longitudinal concave grooves in the pair of outer tines plurality of tines correspond to a shape and size of outer bottom surfaces of the pair of outer tines such that the outer bottom surfaces of the pair of outer tines are adapted to fit and be received in corresponding outer longitudinal concave grooves of an identical fork.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.