Kitchen utensil
AssigneeBialetti Industrie S.p.A.
InventorsFrancesco Ranzoni, Giulio Iacchetti
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Abstract
A kitchen utensil (400) has a receptacle (405) and at least one handle (420) connected to the receptacle (405), a predominant portion of the handle (420) being divided along a substantially longitudinal direction (A) into a first portion (425) and a second portion (430) which fit together at least partially along the longitudinal direction (A) and each of which is articulated to the receptacle (405) for pivoting between a rest position in which it is disposed with a free end in the vicinity of the receptacle (405) thus reducing the bulk of the utensil, and a working position in which the first portion and the second portion (425, 430) are joined together so that the handle (420) forms a substantially unitary element firmly fixed to the receptacle (405) for firm gripping of the utensil.
Claims20
A kitchen utensil comprising a receptacle and at least one handle connected to the receptacle, wherein the handle is divided along a longitudinal axis of the handle into at least a first portion and a second portion, each of the first and second handle portions being articulated to the receptacle to pivot in a plane which is coplanar relative to the longitudinal axis of the handle between a rest position in which each of the first and second handle portions is disposed with a free end in a vicinity of the receptacle and a working position in which each of the first and second handle portions matingly engage each other in a continuous manner along the longitudinal axis of the handle to form a unitary element that is firmly fixed to the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.