Culinary coring device
OwnerNancy Bowdeninventor
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Abstract
A culinary core for the coring of apples, pears, pineapples, oranges and other fruits as might be desired, formed from a single strip of metal stamped and cut-out in the shape of an elongated strip having a pointed spoon bowl at each end thereof with sharpened points and edges of the spoon bowl and with a pressed rigid in handle for strengthening thereof and with the elongated handle being U-bent into the form and shape of tongs, with the spoon bowls at the opposite ends of the strip being positioned into opposing relationship to one another pointed in a common direction with relationship to one another pointed in a common direction with the concavities of the respective spoons facing one another.
Claims2
A culinary device comprising in combination:
- a handle element having opposite distal ends thereof projecting in a common direction, said handle element being tong-shaped with the opposite distal ends thereof extending in said common direction and having two separate and spaced-apart spoon bowls mounted unitarily one from one of the distal ends and the other from the remaining other distal end as a unitary single stamped-strip of material with the handle element being bent into substantially a U-shape, said spoon bowls being of substantially shallow oval shapes positioned one relative to the other with their concavities in opposing relationship to one another and with the distal ends of the respective spoon bowls pointed both in said common direction, peripheral edges of each of said spoon bowls being substantially sharpened as cutting edges, a ridge-projection being formed in each of the legs of the handle element of the U-shape strip at respective positions adjacent the spoon bowls respectively, with each rigid projection extending in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the handle element whereby each leg of the U-shape strip is strengthened adjacent the respective spoon bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.