Pastry blender and cooked fruit and vegetable masher
OwnerGregory B. Galante, Robert G. Dickieinventors
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Abstract
A pastry blender or cooked fruit and vegetable masher has a base portion, a side portion, and a handle member, and is such that the handle is separated from the base portion. The base portion has a pair of edge frame members and a plurality of cutter wire members which extend between them in spaced parallel relation one to another, and which are rigidly secured to the edge frame members. The spacing between the cutter wire members is at least five times the greatest horizontal width of any one cutter wire member.
Claims20
A pastry blender and cooked fruit and vegetable masher comprising a base portion, a side portion, and a handle member;
- wherein said side portion comprises a pair of opposed side support elements extending vertically away from said base portion and terminating in said handle member at one end thereof and in a pair of spaced apart edge frame members at the other end thereof, so that said handle member and said base portion are vertically spaced apart one from the other;
- wherein said base portion comprises said pair of spaced apart edge frame members and at least four plurality of cutter wire members extending therebetween in spaced parallel relation one to another, where the spacing between adjacent pairs of cutter wire members is at least five times more than the greatest horizontal width of any one of said cutter wire members, and where the length of each cutter wire it at least seven times the spacing between adjacent pairs of cutter wire members;
- wherein said cutter wire members are rigidly secured between said edge frame members;
- and wherein said cutter wire members are substantially coplanar one with another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.