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US 9,901,202 B2Granted
Portable food handling devices
OwnerLeonid Shendelmaninventor
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Abstract
A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, includes a holder and a movable member supported by the holder for longitudinal or rotational movement relative to the holder by a user. The movable member engages the foodstuff. Multiple food handling devices may be mounted on a serving platter of a food service assembly.
Claims15
A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, comprising:
- a holder having an interior chamber for receiving and for holding the foodstuff, the interior chamber extending along a longitudinal axis to an opening;
- a pusher mounted in the chamber and abuttingly engaging the foodstuff in non-pressured, relaxed, static contact with the foodstuff;
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- an actuator for moving the pusher and for incrementally feeding a continuously variable quantity of the foodstuff along the longitudinal axis through the opening directly into a user's mouth to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using utensils.
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A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, comprising:
- a hollow, tubular holder extending along a longitudinal axis to an end region, the holder having a side wall that entirely surrounds the longitudinal axis and that bounds an interior chamber for receiving the foodstuff;
- a closure mounted on the end region of the holder for movement between an open and a closed position;
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- a movable member including a pusher mounted in the chamber for abuttingly engaging the foodstuff non-pressured, relaxed, static contact therewith, and for incrementally feeding a continuously variable quantity of the foodstuff along the longitudinal axis directly into a user's mouth in the open position of the closure to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using utensils.
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A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, comprising:
- a holder having an interior chamber for receiving the foodstuff, the interior chamber extending along a longitudinal axis;
- an indexing member fixedly held in the holder and having resilient fingers extending radially of the longitudinal axis;
- a corrugated member manually movable relative to the indexing member along the longitudinal axis;
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- a pusher operatively connected to the corrugated member for joint movement therewith, the pusher being operative for engaging and incrementally feeding the foodstuff directly into a user's mouth to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using utensils, the corrugated member having a series of annular ridges alternating with a series of annular grooves, each ridge and each groove extending circumferentially around the longitudinal axis, the resilient fingers being initially seated in one of the grooves and being moved to, and seated in, another of the grooves during axial movement of the corrugated member.
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A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, comprising:
- a holder having an interior chamber for receiving the foodstuff, the interior chamber extending along a longitudinal axis;
- an indexing member fixedly held in the holder and having resilient fingers extending radially of the longitudinal axis;
- a manually turnable member turnable around the longitudinal axis and movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the holder;
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- a pusher operatively connected to the turnable member for joint movement therewith, the pusher being operative for operatively engaging and incrementally feeding the foodstuff directly into a user's mouth to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using utensils, the turnable member having a spiral thread extending in a spiral around the longitudinal axis, the resilient fingers threadedly engaging the spiral thread during movement of the turnable member.
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A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, comprising:
- a hollow, tubular holder extending along a longitudinal axis to a front end region, the holder having a side wall that entirely surrounds the longitudinal axis and that bounds an interior chamber for receiving the foodstuff;
- a front end piece mounted on the front end region of the holder, the front end piece having resilient flexible lips bounding an opening;
- a closure mounted on the front end piece for movement between an open and a closed position;
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- a movable member including a pusher mounted in the chamber for engaging the foodstuff, and for incrementally feeding the foodstuff through the opening and past the resilient flexible lips directly into a user's mouth in the open position of the closure to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using utensils.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.