Cassette kitchen utensils set

• US 4,870,754 A
• Filed: 03/17/1988
• Issued: 10/03/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jeng-Jong Chiou
• Original Assignee: Jeng-Jong Chiou
• Inventors: Chiou, Jeng-Jong
• Primary Examiner(s): Watts, Douglas D.
• Application Number:
  US07/169,061
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 30/296 R, 30/296 A, 30/123, 30/142, 30/147-150, 206/214, 206/216, 206/576, 206/553, 206/374, 248/37.3
• US Class Current: 30/123
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/14 Knife racks or stands; Holders for table utensils attachable to plates

Abstract

A cassette kitchen utensils set, comprising a variety of kitchen utensils, a handle bar, a locating seat and a cassette case; each kitchen utensil can be inserted into said handle bar for use and comprises a cutting plane to match with the cutting plane of a U-shaped holder on said locating seat so that it can be placed in said U-shaped holder and be retained thereinside by means of a nose of the respective U-shaped holder wherein the consolidated assembly of the variety of kitchen utensils, the handle bar and the locating seat is put in said cassette case to complete a compact, practicable and portable cassette kitchen utensils set.

Claims

1. A cassette kitchen utensils set comprising:

a plurality of elongated handle bars, each having a longitudinal axial channel hole with a cutting plane along a portion of the circumference thereof;

a set of kitchen utensils including a knife, fork, spoon, bottle opener and can opener, each utensil having an integral handle defining a cutting plane therealong adapted to match the cutting plane in the bar when the utensil handle is inserted in the axial channel hole therein, said utensils further including a corkscrew having an integral handle and a handle bar grip mounted on the utensil handle at the center of said grip with said grip extending perpendicular to said utensil handle;

a flat locating seat, a plurality of mutually space U-shaped holders extending in a row along one edge, each U-shaped holder adapted to receive a utensil handle each holder except one defining a cutting plane to match the cutting plane on a utensil handle and each holder having an upper, resilient nose protruding internally therefrom for releasably retaining a handle therein said seat forming mutually spaced channels extending from each of said holers having a cutting plane adapted to receive the utensil end of the handle disposed in the respective holder, said holder not having a cutting plane being centrally located along said row and adapted to receive the corkscrew handle, said seat further defining on a side opposite said holders a substantially L-shaped locating plate for receiving end of said handle bars;

a cassette case having a lower cover and an upper cover hingedly interconnected at an edge thereof said cassette adapted to receive said seat, utensils and handle bars and closure means carried by said case for releasably securing said covers together.