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US 5,634,679 AGranted
Rotatable spatula
OwnerKenneth D. Hilderbrandtinventor
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Abstract
A rotatable spatula that includes a squeezable handle portion and a spatula portion. The spatula portion is rotatively mounted to the squeezable handle portion. When the squeezable handle portion is squeezed the spatula portion rotates and turns over food disposed thereon. The spatula portion has a thin flat substantially rectangular-shaped body with a tapered leading edge and a rounded corner trailing edge.
Claims12
A rotatable spatula, comprising:
- (a) a squeezable handle portion including a first member having a substantially straight flat portion with a proximal end and a rounded distal end with a throughbore;
- said first member of said squeezable handle portion further having a vertically disposed guide plate extending upwardly from said proximal end of said substantially straight flat portion of said first member of said squeezable handle portion;
- b) a spatula portion rotatively mounted to said squeezable handle portion, so that when said squeezable handle portion is squeezed said spatula portion rotates and turns over food disposed thereon;
- said spatula portion having a thin flat substantially rectangular-shaped body with a tapered leading edge and a rounded corner trailing edge;
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- c) a short slender rod extending outwardly from the center of said rounded corner trailing edge of said thin flat substantially rectangular-shaped body of said spatula portion;
- said squeezable handle portion further including an elongated slender rod having a distal end and a proximal end being fixedly attached to, and extending outwardly from, said short slender rod of said rounded corner trailing edge of said thin flat substantially rectangular-shaped body of said spatula portion;
- said squeezable handle portion further including a pinion gear being fixedly attached to said distal end of said elongated slender rod of said squeezable handle portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.