Meat tenderizer with disposable face plates
OwnerCori Weinsteininventor
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Abstract
A meat tenderizer with disposable face plates requires that a fresh face plate be chosen for each use to prevent cross contamination from one use of the tenderizer to the next. The table or tables of the tenderizer head are flat and accept the face plates which may have a flat tenderizing surface or any of several textured tenderizing surfaces. The face plates are intended for a single use. Once used a face plate is discarded. The user selects the appropriate face plate for the task at hand, attaches it to the tenderizer and removes and discards it after use. Since a clean unused face plate is selected for each use, the tenderizer does not have to be washed between uses thereby saving time for the chef and providing a sanitary tenderizing surface for contact with the meat.
Claims4
A meat tenderizer assembly that completely eliminates contamination from one use to the next, said tenderizer assembly comprising:
- a head with at least one table, said table having a substantially planar outer surface;
- a handle integral with said head;
- a series of disposable table covers configured to be quickly and easily snapped onto and removed from said at least one table and to remain attached to said at least one table during use, each of said table covers having a differently configured obverse surface for contact with the meat and a substantially smooth planar reverse surface for contact with the substantially planar outer surface of the at least one table;
- means for quickly and easily snapping said table covers onto and removing said table covers from said at least one table, said means comprising;
- a first set of opposing side walls integral with the at least one table, a transverse downwardly facing grove disposed proximate to and upwardly spaced from the bottom of the table in each opposing side wall, a first set of opposing flanges integral with and curving upwardly from the obverse surface of the disposable table covers, said flanges terminating in inwardly and downwardly extending portions configured to cooperate with said grooves such that when a table cover is brought in contact with the at least one table the inwardly facing portions of the flanges of said table cover may quickly and easily snapped into the grooves in the side walls of said at least one table, the tenderizer used in the intended manner, and said portions may be easily removed from said grooves after use;
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- means for prohibiting material from entering a space between the table covers and the at least one table during use;
- whereby one table cover may be snapped onto the at least one table, the tenderizer used on a piece of meat, the used table cover quickly and easily removed and permanently discarded and a clean unused table cover snapped unto the at least one table for the next use thereby completely eliminating cross contamination from one use to the next.
A meat tenderizer assembly that completely eliminates contamination from one use to the next, said tenderizer assembly comprising:
- a head with at least one table, said table having a substantially planar outer surface and a first set and a second set of opposing sidewalls integral therewith;
- a transverse downward facing groove, disposed proximate to and upwardly spaced from the bottom of the at least one table, in each of the first set of opposing sidewalls;
- a handle integral with said head;
- a series of disposable table covers configured to be quickly and easily snapped onto and removed from said at least one table and to remain attached to said at least one table during use, each of said table covers having a differently configured obverse surface for contact with the meat and a substantially smooth planar reverse surface for contact with the substantially planar outer surface of the at least one table;
- means for quickly and easily snapping said table covers onto and removing said table covers from said at least one table, said means comprising a first set of opposing flanges integral with the obverse surface of the table cover and curving upwardly therefrom, said flanges terminating in inwardly and downwardly extending portions for cooperation with the downward facing grooves in the first set of opposing sidewalls of the at least one table;
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- a second set of opposing flanges integral with the obverse surface of said table cover and curving upwardly therefrom for being disposed against the second set of opposing sidewalls, said second set of flanges to cover a space between the table cover and the at least one table, to enclose an area over which the first set of flanges does not extend, and to prohibit material from entering the space;
- whereby one table cover may be snapped onto the at least one table, the tenderizer used on a piece of meat, the used table cover quickly and easily removed and permanently discarded and a clean unused table cover snapped onto the at least one table for the next use thereby completely eliminating cross contamination from one use to the next.
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