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US 5,000,672 AGranted
Ice cream scoop with heated forming edge
OwnerEdward M. Halimiinventor
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Abstract
A scooper for scooping ice cream and similar cold hardened material from a container including a scooping device with a handle which handle incorporates safety connected electrical device connected to and capable of activating heating elements buried within the scooper itself, and alternately a coating of teflon or the like on the scooping device, wherein the most preferred embodiment incorporates the heated, metallic, heated leading edge.
Claims2
An ice cream scooping device comprising in cooperative combination:
- a plastic scooping head having a scooping depression and an edge around the scooping depression, an elongated plastic neck attached to said scooping member, hollow handle suitable to be held by an individual in scooping ice cream with the scooping head attached to said elongated neck, a metallic strip over a portion of the edge of said scooping member, thermister means attached to said metallic strip to control the temperature of the metallic strip by adjusting electrical energy flowing from, electrical energy means carried within said hollow handle for supplying electrical energy to said metallic strip, and means connecting said electrical energy means to said thermister means in such manner that said thermister means receives electrical energy from said electrical energy means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.