Cultry place setting

• US 4,377,035 A
• Filed: 03/12/1981
• Issued: 03/22/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Heinr Boker GmbH & Company Baumwerk
• Original Assignee: Heinr Boker GmbH & Company Baumwerk
• Inventors: Dalichow, Ernst-Wilhelm F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jimmy C.
• Application Number:
  US06/242,927
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 30/142, 30/147, 30/125, 30/148, 30/149, 7/112, 7/113
• US Class Current: 30/147
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/004 Table-ware comprising food additives to be used with foodstuff spoon-like infusers A47G19/16; drinking straws A47G21/183
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/06 Combined or separable sets of table-service utensils; Oyster knives with openers; Fish servers with means for removing bones kitchen equipment A47J

Abstract

A cutlery place setting comprises a knife, a fork, a spoon, and a holder in which the upper ends of the knife, fork and spoon are housed together detachably and which holds them together.

Claims

1. A cutlery place setting comprising a knife, said knife including a handle portion, a fork, said fork including a handle portion, a spoon, said spoon including a handle portion, a holder, and said knife, fork and spoon detachably housed together held by said holder, said handle portions adapted to extend outward of said holder.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein said handles interfit, said handles adapted to detachably engage an end of said holder, said knife, fork and spoon engaged against unintentional detachment.

3. The invention of claim 2 wherein said handles of said knife and fork each include a shoulder, said shoulder acting as a stop with regard to said holder.

4. The invention of claim 1 wherein the knife and fork each have a handle provided with a trough-shaped recess, and the spoon handle is adapted to be received within said recess.

5. The invention of claim 1 wherein said knife and fork handles are molded from a plastic material and include portions of said knife and fork introduced into said handle plastic.

6. The invention of claim 1 wherein said holder is molded from a plastic material, said holder including a recess adapted to receive said fork and knife portions extending from said handles of said fork and knife.

7. The invention of claim 1 wherein said holder includes a chamber at a closed end thereof, said chamber including a detachable closure.

8. The invention of claim 7 wherein said closure includes at least one sprinkle opening, said closure including a detachbale cover.