US 5,699,618 AGranted

Pasta tools

OwnerMichael Edward Barberainventor

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Abstract

A pair of salad and pasta tossing tools for operating with each other to assist in tossing salads, pastas, and similar objects, which tools have proportionally broad shaft, or handle that is an enlarged, widened gripable portion, and from which protrude several tines or pointed elements extending substantially parallel to each other at the other end. The several protruding elements, usually three in number, are generally "V" shaped. This tool is shaped to comfortably fit against the heel of the hand, with the four opposing fingers, opposing and gripping the tool against the shaft, such that the protruding elements or tines of each tool when used in pairs, one for each hand, co-act to lift and encompass a portion of the salad greens or pasta, to be raised or lifted from their container for "tossing."

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Dependent claims

A two element utensil designed for the service and manipulation of salad, pasta and other food products comprising:

(a) a pair of scooping and gripping means, each of said scooping and gripping means having a substantially flat rectangular form which in turn has a first end and a second end, a first face and a second face,
(b) each of said first ends has at least two thick flattened and elongated triangular tines, said tines of one of the two element utensil is shaped to mesh in opposition with openings between the other of the openings between said tines of the other of the said two element utensil forming a slightly concave first face, substantially without void
(c) each of said first end has at least two thick flattened and elongated triangular tines, forming a slightly concave first face,
(d) each of said second end is characterized by having a slightly rounded, thickened, and wide, spade like, handle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.