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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8429827 | Electronic cooking utensil for setting cooking time with cooking status indicator A battery powered microprocessor-controlled fondue fork has a thermal sensor, a timer, a color LED display for indicating degree of doneness, and a control switch for selecting a predefined cooking time. When the fondue fork is placed into a heated liquid for cookin... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8176641 | Metallized cutlery and tableware and method therefor A plastic cutlery item molded from a plastic material, such as polystyrene, having a metallic coating that imparts to this cutlery item the appearance of metal cutlery or silverware. In one embodiment the plastic cutlery or tableware items are molded using injection... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7409765 | Combination cooking utensil A combination cooking utensil for use in food preparation has a handle with a shank extending from the handle to a utensil head. An audio input/output and audio player are provided with the housing for storing and playing audio files. A power supply is located withi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7395602 | Method of using a device to lift, move and flip foods Double hooked device with the hooks being transversely positioned on the end of a shaft having a handle at its opposite end. The hooks may snag, lift, move and/or flip food or other articles by the hooks being rotated generally about the shaft's axis until one of th... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7258375 | Telescopic chopstick A telescopic chopstick including an upper section, a lower section and a press member. The upper section is a hollow rod formed with an upper opening and a lower opening. A locating section is formed on an inner side of the upper section. The lower section has an up... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249793 | Cooking serving tongs The CST is ergonomically designed to facilitate in the cooking, handling, and serving of hot and cold food. It's created for simplifying the procedure of cooking and serving all in one element. The top part of the tongs has a rectangular curved-in spoon structure ( | 07/31/2007 |
| 7234392 | Open flame rotisserie utensil having spiral wiener receptacle An open fire cooking utensil which has a simple and effective detachable skewless wiener holding end portion. The simplicity of the design makes it rugged, and easy to clean. The rotisserie utensil for roasting food comprises: a handle portion; an elongate shaft hav... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7134206 | Combination utensil A combination utensil for preparing and eating crustaceans comprising an elongated handle portion having opposing longitudinal ends; a crustacean shell breaking tool extending integrally from one of the longitudinal ends; and a fork extending integrally from a remai... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7108304 | Grilling implement and method of use thereof A grilling implement and method of use thereof, the grilling implement comprising at least one hook having a tip, a shaft and a heel. The shaft and heel lie coplanar, and the tip curves upward out of the plane of the shaft and heel such that the hook can be passed u... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104682 | System and method for determining temperature of food A device for checking the internal temperature of food, which includes a piercing element for insertion into food and a temperature sensor integral with the piercing element. The piercing element is connected to a main handle, which is removably connected to a handl... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100288 | Cutlery A set of cutlery includes a plurality of superimposable cutlery components, which are adapted to be releasably connected so as to form a transportable unit. In order to facilitate the handling of such cutlery, it is suggested that the cutlery components should be ac... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096530 | Paint roller with extendable handle An extendable handle for a paint applicator includes an first shaft having a distal end and a proximal end and a second shaft with a distal end and a proximal end and which is telescopically disposed within the first shaft. A guide block is disposed on the second sh... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093868 | Telescopic chopstick set A telescopic chopstick set including pair of chopsticks and a jacket for receiving the chopsticks. Each chopstick has an upper half and a lower half extendably nested in the upper half. An upper end of the upper half has an upper opening, while a lower end of the up... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7065883 | Device to lift, move and flip foods Double hooked device with the hooks being transversely positioned on the end of a shaft having a handle at its opposite end. The hooks may snag, lift, move and/or flip food or other articles by the hooks being rotated generally about the shaft's axis until one of th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044518 | Combination pastry support and server A combination pastry support and server is provided by a formed polycarbonate sheet having a rectangular intermediate portion, and integral, trapezoidal flanges extending at an angle of 88° in opposite directions from its respective upper and lower edges. The trape... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024979 | Cutting template for cutting meat pieces A cutting template for use for cutting of a plurality of substantially equal size meat pieces. The cutting template is to be hand operated by being placed by the user in conjunction with a meat section and then the user takes the knife and severs the meat section th... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6983542 | Metallized cutlery and tableware A plastic cutlery item, fabricated primarily from a plastic material, such as polystyrene, having a metallic coating that imparts to this cutlery item the appearance of metal cutlery or silverware. The plastic cutlery or tableware items are molded using traditional ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6959496 | Barbecue cooking utensil A barbeque fork comprises a base or handle, tines, biasing rod, at least one guide for supporting and sliding the rod and a cross-brace or bracket, wherein the rod is supported over and along the top surface of the handle by preferably two guides, the guides project... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959641 | Barbeque stick for barbeque stove The present invention discloses a barbeque stick for barbeque stoves, which installs a first liner and a second liner in a handle and forms a barbeque stick by connecting the first liner with a rod, and the barbeque stick is installed onto a barbeque stove. If it is... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957492 | Cooking implement with handle storage feature A cooking implement is disclosed which is comprised of a hollow sheath and a utensil, wherein the utensil can be stored within the hollow sheath. The utensil can be a fork, knife, spoon, skewer or any myriad of other types of utensils. The sheath serves as both a st... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6915580 | Extendable razor handle assembly A razor handle assembly having a telescoping extension body portion with a loop-handle at one end and a gripping portion at the opposite end, the gripping portion is detachably connected to the handle of a typical shaving razor. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6877232 | Marshmallow toasting utensil and method Marshmallow-toasting utensils that include a handle and a wire assembly with at least one wire segment extending from the handle. In some embodiments, the wire assembly includes deflectable wire segments with end regions that are biased to a spread-apart configurati... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6754966 | Wienie roaster Disclosed is a wienie roaster with prongs that may be folded back. The prongs are pivotly received by a head, and the head is attached at the end of a roaster stalk. The prong has a continuous curve as it enters the head which produces friction to hold the prongs at... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6751873 | Foldable eating utensil A one piece foldable eating utensil having a food holding section and a handle with a pair of reduced thickness portions forming flexible hinges for folding into a packaged position for accompanying a food product and a useable position for consuming the food produc... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6680359 | Moldable compositions This invention relates to polymeric thermoplastic moldable compositions comprising poly(alkylene carbonates), which are useful in manufacturing of articles which may be manipulated and shaped by their user, but regain their shape after distortion. These c... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6675483 | Combination barbecue tool A simple, effective, lightweight, durable, combination tool having removably attachable interchangeable implements, which are interchangeable one with the other. The combination tool has locking means, which releasably locks the removably attachable inter... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6594908 | Motorized rotating fork The present invention is an eating utensil, in particular a motorized rotating fork. The preferred embodiment of the utensil contains an improved electromechanical motor switching system in the fork's handle. The system comprises a cam attached to an elec... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591503 | Pizza cutting and eating tool A pizza cutter and eating tool has a fork portion, an elongated handle connected to a rearward end of the fork portion. A cutting wheel mounting area is located in the handle adjacent the rearward end of the fork portion. An elongated longitudinal slot is... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6536114 | Boiled egg shell ripper A hand tool to facilitate removing the shell from a hard boiled egg. The tool has an egg shell ripper prong disposed between a spaced apart pair of members that engage the outer surface of the egg shell and limit the depth of penetration of the ripper pro... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6536118 | Barbeque fork The barbeque fork includes a first tine and a second tine. Each of the tines has a first end, a second, a top side, a bottom side, an inner side edge and an outer side edge. The inner side edges and outer side edges tapering from the first end to the seco... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6493942 | Flatware for spaghetti The invention relates to a flatware set for spaghetti. When spaghetti is eaten, the spaghetti threads are taken up onto the fork by turning the fork on its axis. In order to improve the spaghetti take-up, the fork (5) has the feature that the at least two... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6442846 | Motorized rotating fork with automatic stop A rechargeable electric motorized pasta fork has an automatic stop mechanism for stopping the rotation of a two-part fork assembly after preset number of revolutions or after a user controlled number of revelations by engagement of a switch. The fork asse... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6421921 | Attachable and removable handle for food serving utensils A utensil having a first portion and a handle. The first portion includes a utensil portion, which can be spoon shaped, forked shaped, knife shaped or other food implement shaped and a shank attached at one end to the utensil portion. The handle is remova... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6402725 | Molded article--shapes A cup of plastics material incorporating foaming agents has thin wall portions, namely a base (101), a lower side wall (102) and an upper side wall (103). These portions have their wall thickness determined by mold part gap. The cup also has thick wall po... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6390911 | Shell seafood cracking and serving device A shell seafood cracking and serving device for cracking shell seafood with little mess and effort by the user. The shell seafood cracking and serving device includes a utensil having a handle member and a seafood cracking member being securely attached a... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6374500 | Collapsible barbecue tools A collapsible barbecue tool assembly includes a barbecue tool, a handle and a latch mechanism mounted in the handle. The handle includes an elongated cavity for slidably receiving a blade portion of the barbecue tool. The blade portion of the tool has one... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6276734 | Utilitarian combination utensil Abstract: An improved eating utensil. To attain this, the present design provides a utensil base (10) interconnected with both proximal and distal ends. Oriented al the proximal most end of utensil base (10) is a symmetrical counterbalanced handle member ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6266885 | Collapsible barbecue tools A collapsible barbecue tool assembly includes a barbecue tool, a handle and a latch mechanism mounted in the handle. The handle includes an elongated cavity for slidably receiving a blade portion of the barbecue tool. The blade portion of the tool has one... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6237226 | Kitchen utensil having a length adjusting device A kitchen utensil includes an upper portion, a lower portion and a strip sandwiched between the upper and the lower portion and having a utility head. The strip has a plurality of holes defined therethrough. The lower portion has a tubular portion to rece... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6199285 | Camping flatware The foldable flatware utensil includes a shank with an integral spoon bowl, knife or fork. An elongated handle has an end that is telescopically connected to an end of the shank. A bore in the shank is aligned with a bore in the handle when assembled for ... | 03/13/2001 |
