Nestable, stackable cutlery

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1983-04-25

1985-06-25

Bell, Paul A.

Cutlery

Combined cutlery or combined with ancillary feature

Cutlery

30150, A47J 4328, A47J 4506

Patent

active

045245126

ABSTRACT:
Nestable, stackable cutlery is shown according to the teachings of the present invention in the form of spoons, forks, and knives. The cutlery includes handle portions, of generally identical construction, and food operational and engagement portions. The handle portions in the preferred embodiment have a U-shaped cross section allowing the outside surface of a first piece of cutlery to be received within the inside surface of a second piece of cutlery. The cutlery further includes nesting and stacking lugs for supporting the handle portion of the second piece of cutlery along its entire length on the handle portion of the first piece of cutlery. In their most preferred form, the lugs include an inverse tapered inner surface for holding onto a punch of an injection mold during fabrication. In the preferred embodiment, the food operational and engagement portions of the cutlery have unique constructions allowing the food operational and engagement portions to lie within a single overall outline, and in the most preferred form, to lie generally within the outline of the bowl portion of the spoon when a spoon, a fork, and a knife are stacked and nested together.

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patent: 2674793 (1954-04-01), Dominick
patent: 2752678 (1956-07-01), Welch
patent: 3032184 (1962-05-01), Kuster
patent: 4317284 (1982-03-01), Prindle

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