Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Confining – conforming or molding support
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
Evans, Geoffrey S (Department: 3742)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Confining, conforming or molding support
Reexamination Certificate
active
07866257
ABSTRACT:
A cooking utensil for frying a tortilla into a taco shell comprises a shell section having first and second U-shaped shell members and a handle assembly that linearly biases the second shell member into nested relation with the first shell member. A brace member attaches to the first shell member. The first end of an outer tubular shaft attaches a first handle member and its second end slidably attaches to the brace member. An inner shaft having a first end attached to a second handle member and a second end pivotally attached to the second shell member is slidably disposed in the outer shaft. The first handle member has a cavity that receives the second handle member, which is biased outwardly from the cavity by a spring. A user supplied anti-biasing force separates the first and second shell members for insertion of the tortilla and removal of the taco shell.
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Evans Geoffrey S
Ryan Richard A.
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