Food-handling device

• US 4,133,238 A
• Filed: 07/05/1977
• Issued: 01/09/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jacob L. Jacobs
• Original Assignee: Jacob L. Jacobs
• Inventors: Jacobs, Jacob L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abercrombie, Willie G.
• Application Number:
  US05/812,488
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 83/761, 83/762, 83/763, 83/764, 83/466.1, 83/467
• US Class Current: 83/762
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 29/063 Food related applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/695 By plural opposed guide surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7587 Gapped work-constrainer

Abstract

A device for holding a sandwich during cutting thereof and/or during insertion thereof in a container which device comprises a tray having opposed, spaced, side walls, each provided with a vertical slot extending from its top edge substantially to its bottom. Said slots are adapted to receive a knife blade for cutting a sandwich reposing in said tray. The side walls, adjacent one end of the tray, are provided with inturned extensions that partially close said end. At the same end, the bottom of the tray extends outwardly, parallel to said side walls, and is preferably provided with an upwardly projecting end. The device also includes a separable end plate, generally rectangular in shape that is of slightly less length than the distance between said side walls and which is provided with longitudinally projecting hooks at its ends adapted to loosely engage said side walls.

Claims

1. A food-handling device suitable for holding a sandwich and for assisting in the insertion of a sandwich into an open-ended container which comprises a generally rectangular tray, said tray having a bottom, opposed, fixed, upstanding side walls, and open ends;

each of said side walls having, adjacent one of said ends, an inwardly-directed extension, partially closing said one end, said extensions being laterally aligned, and each of said side walls having a vertical slot extending from the top thereof to substantially the bottom thereof between said inwardly-directed extension and the other end, said slots being adapted to receive the blade of a knife, and said side walls at said other ends being bevelled whereby to facilitate entry of said tray into a container; and

a detached end plate adapted to fit between said side walls and engage said extensions and movable lengthwise of said tray between said side walls to expel a sandwich from said tray into said container.

2. A device as defined in claim 1 wherein said tray is provided with a handle on the exterior of said partially closed end.

3. A device as defined in claim 2 wherein said handle comprises an extension of said bottom.

4. A device as defined in claim 3 wherein said bottom extension has a bent end.

5. A device as defined in claim 1 wherein said end plate is substantially rectangular and is provided with longitudinally directed hooks on its upper corners for engagement with said side walls.

6. A device as defined in claim 5 wherein said hooks are formed integrally with said end plate.