# US 5,699,618 A · Pasta tools

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- Number: US 5,699,618 A
- Document ID: US5699618A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/579,353
- Filed: 1995-12-27
- Granted: 1997-12-23
- Earliest claimed: 1995-12-27
- Inventors: Michael Edward Barbera
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5699618A

## CPC

- A47J 43/283: {Tongs; Devices for picking, holding or rotating food}
- A47J: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES

## 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."

## Claims

### Claim 1

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.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

In a device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second end first face, is dished out to fit comfortably in the heel of the operators hand.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

In a device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second end is characterized by having triangular shaped openings between the said thick flattened and elongated triangular tines, said openings to substantially mate the shape of the other of the said at least two thick flattened and elongated triangular tines when placed in opposition to each other.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A device as in claim 1, wherein the said two elements, for the service and manipulation of pasta and other food products: is characterized by having the first of two pieces being identical with the said other, and having at one end a slightly rounded and wide spade like handle.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A device as in claim 1, wherein at the opposing end, at least two, means as many as six thick tines formed thereon.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A device as in claim 1, wherein said handle thickened at the one end is fitted with openings perpendicularly to the face, to form a "D" shape opening therein, to fit comfortably the four fingers of a hand.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

A device as in claim 1, wherein said openings, between the tines, co-acts with the other of two identical pieces as an tine opposing pair, to partially mate and catch small diameter pieces of pasta.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A device as in claim 1 wherein the elements of the utensil are additionally characterized by having an "s" shaped bend perpendicularly to the face, of said substantially flat rectangular device.