Portable knife equipped with a spoon and a fork

• US 4,539,749 A
• Filed: 03/14/1984
• Issued: 09/10/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shin Hyeong-Woon
• Original Assignee: Shin Hyeong-Woon
• Inventors: Hyeong-Woon, Shin
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jimmy C.
• Application Number:
  US06/589,424
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 30/142, 30/143, 30/144, 30/147, 30/148, 30/150, 30/344, 30/162, 7/167, 7/118, 145/61 C
• US Class Current: 30/147
• 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 portable knife including a knife and at least one utensile. The portable knife comprises an assembly of elongated plates at least one of which defines a longitudinally extending pocket having an open end which receives and retains an elongated portion of the utensile. The plate that defines the pocket is displaceable at at least one side at its open end transversely of the assembly to permit receiving and removing the utensile.

Claims

1. A portable knife, comprising:

a plurality of elongated plates extending in a longitudinal direction;

means for joining the plurality of elongated plates together into a layered assembly in which the individual plates are co-extensive, at least one of said plates including a pair of elongated, parallel legs extending in the longitudinal direction which define a pocket between them open at one end, one of said legs being displaceable transversely to the longitudinal direction;

a knife pivotably mounted at one end of the assembly; and

a utensile including an elongated portion which is received through the open end of said pocket, longitudinally into said pocket and retained therein, said displaceable leg being displaceable transversely outwardly from the assembly to receive said elongated portion.

2. The portable knife as defined in claim 1, wherein the transversely displaceable leg includes a projection at the open end which projects into the pocket, and wherein the elongated portion of the utensile includes a groove dimensioned to receive said projection.

3. The portable knife as defined in claim 2, wherein the transversely displaceable leg further includes a hole adjacent to the projection for receiving the joining means with play to thereby permit the transverse displacement of said transversely displaceable leg.

4. The portable knife as defined in claim 3, wherein two of said plates include a pair of elongated, parallel legs extending in the longitudinal direction each of which defines a pocket between them open at one end, one of said legs of each plate being displaceable transversely to the longitudinal direction, and wherein two utensiles are provided each with an elongated portion received in a respective one of the pockets, said utensiles comprising a spoon and fork.

5. The portable knife as defined in claim 4, wherein the plates are provided with holes which are aligned and define a bore in assembly, and wherein the means for joining the plates comprises rivets received within said bores.

6. The portable knife as defined in claim 5, wherein the hole adjacent the projection is larger in diameter than the diameter of the rivet received therein resulting in said play.