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US 5,176,418 AGranted
Non-sticking kitchen spatula
OwnerChi-Chou Niuinventor
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Abstract
A non-sticking kitchen spatula comprises a protective jacket made from heat-resistant and non-toxic material and detachably and securely attached to the front edge of the spatula body by means of hooks and insertion portion of the protective jacket and the grooves of the spatula body. Such kitchen spatula does not scrape the non-sticking coating of pots and pans, and can be also used to spread and turn over food in the ordinary non-Teflon pots and pans.
Claims4
A non-sticking kitchen spatula comprising:
- a spatula body having a spatula plate engaged to a handle;
- said spatula plate having a front edge and a plurality of parallel slots;
- each of at least two of said plurality of parallel slots having an expansion hole;
- a protective jacket made from a heat resistant material which moves over non-sticking pots and pans without scraping their surface;
- said protective jacket having a beveled front edge sloping over an upper side of said protective jacket to provide an insertion portion behind said beveled front edge;
- at least two hook means integrally engaged to said upper side of said protective jacket for holding said spatula plate in engagement to said protective jacket;
- wherein the distance between each said expansion hole of said spatula plate and said front edge of said spatula plate is shorter than that between said at least two hook means of said protective jacket and said insertion portion of said protective jacket;
- wherein, said protective jacket is engaged to said spatula body by inserting each said at least two hook means respectively through each said hole and sliding said front edge of said spatula plate into engagement with said insertion portion of said protective jacket while said each said hook means slides in each corresponding slot of said at least two of said plurality of parallel slots and engages said spatula plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.