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Device for automatically wrapping eating utensils in a napkin

  • US 20020112445A1
  • Filed: 02/16/2001
  • Published: 08/22/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An improved device for automatically wrapping eating utensils in a napkin of the type having hoppers for holding the eating utensils sortingly and having interior surfaces with heights for facing and surrounding the eating utensils and mouths for introducing the eating utensils therein, a tray for holding the napkin, a staging assembly operatively connected to the hoppers and to the tray for receiving the napkin from the tray and the eating utensils from the hoppers on top of the napkin, a wrapping assembly operatively connected to the staging assembly for wrapping the napkin around the eating utensils so as to form a wrapped set of eating utensils, and a banding assembly operatively connected to the wrapping assembly for providing a band around, so as to hold together, the wrapped set of eating utensils, said improvement comprising an ultraviolet light assembly disposed in each of the hoppers and generating ultraviolet light directly upon all surfaces of the eating utensils after the eating utensils have been loaded into the hoppers so as to sanitize the eating utensils from contaminates the eating utensils picked up prior to, and during, loading of the eating utensils into the hoppers.

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