Cutting – Tool or tool with support – Wire tool
Reexamination Certificate
2001-04-27
2003-11-18
Goodman, Charles (Department: 3724)
Cutting
Tool or tool with support
Wire tool
C083S874000, C083S932000, C030S117000, C030S297000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06647848
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to cake-layer cutting assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new cake-layer cutting apparatus for allowing a user to slice layers of cake accurately and evenly.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of cake-layer cutting assemblies is known in the prior art. More specifically, cake-layer cutting assemblies heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 2,589,911; U.S. Pat. No. 3,277,754; U.S. Pat. No. 4,213,241; U.S. Pat. No. 2,964,844; U.S. Pat. No. 817,027; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 363,870.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new cake-layer cutting apparatus. The inventive device includes a frame that includes a first support, a second support and a handle portion that extends between the first support and the second support. The frame is designed to be passed over and along side the cake. The first support includes a first support slot that extends vertically through the first support. The second support includes a second support slot that extends vertically through the second support. A plurality of wires extend between the supports for cutting the cake as the cake is passed between the supports.
In these respects, the cake-layer cutting apparatus according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing a user to slice layers of cake accurately and evenly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of cake-layer cutting assemblies now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new cake-layer cutting apparatus construction wherein the same can be utilized for allowing a user to slice layers of cake accurately and evenly.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the cake-layer cutting assemblies mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art cake-layer cutting assemblies, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a frame that includes a first support, a second support and a handle portion that extends between the first support and the second support. The frame is designed to be passed over and along side the cake. The first support includes a first support slot that extends vertically through the first support. The second support includes a second support slot that extends vertically through the second support. A plurality of wires extend between the supports for cutting the cake as the cake is passed between the supports.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the cake-layer cutting assemblies mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art cake-layer cutting assemblies, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such cake-layer cutting apparatus economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus for allowing a user to slice layers of cake accurately and evenly.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus which includes a frame which, includes a first support, a second support and a handle portion that extends between the first support and the second support. The frame is designed to be passed over and along side the cake. The first support includes a first support slot that extends vertically through the first support. The second support includes a second support slot that extends vertically through the second support. A plurality of wires extend between the supports for cutting the cake as the cake is passed between the supports.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus that eliminates cutting off circulation in a users hands which is a common event when using conventional wire cake cutters.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new cake-layer cutting apparatus that saves time over conventional methods of cutting layers of cake as well as providing more control and flexibility to the person making the cuts.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particulari
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