International dining kit

• US 7,905,021 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2006
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kamran Shirazi
• Original Assignee: Kamran Shirazi
• Inventors: Shirazi, Kamran
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi; Stephen
• Application Number:
  US11/607,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20070101578A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• Field of Search: 30147-150, 301/42, 301/43, D7542-545, 7112-113, 294/99.2, 220/574.1, 220/575, 220/762, 220/763
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 21/103 Chop-sticks
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 15/02 Toothpicks

Abstract

The present disclosure teaches an international dining kit comprising a pair of multifunctional chopstick components. The components include a first chopstick component having a fork portion and a first chopstick portion; and a second chopstick component having a spoon portion and a second chopstick portion. The kit can also include additional functionality, such as a knife, a straw, and a dental cleaning component, as well as be disposable and/or biodegradable.

Claims

1. An international dining kit comprising:

a pair of multifunctional chopstick components comprising a first chopstick component having a fork member and a first chopstick member with a substantially planar first surface; and

a second chopstick component having a spoon member and a second chopstick member with a substantially planar second surface; and

a knife component having a blade member and a handle member, wherein the first chopstick component, the second chopstick component, and the knife component are directly and breakably connected to one another by at least two weakened sections so that the first surface, the second surface, and at least one of the blade portion or the handle portion are substantially coplanar;

wherein the spoon member is adjacent to an end of the first chopstick member that is opposite the fork member, and the fork member is adjacent to an end of the second chopstick member that is opposite the spoon member when the first chopstick component, the second chopstick component, and the knife component are breakable connected to one another; and

wherein the fork member is at an angle relative to a central axis of the first chopstick member, the spoon member is at an angle relative to a central axis of the second chopstick member, and the knife component is between the first chopstick member, the second chopstick member, the fork member and the spoon member, the knife component having a central longitudinal axis that is parallel to the central axes of the first and second chopstick members, wherein the fork member and the spoon member extend across the central longitudinal axis of the knife component so that the fork member and the spoon member flank the knife component along its central longitudinal axis.

2. The dining kit of claim 1, wherein the fork member is breakably connected to the knife component and the knife component is breakably connected to the second chopstick member.

3. The dining kit of claim 1, wherein an end of the knife component terminates at an angle that is similar to the angle of the fork member relative to the central axis of the first chopstick member.

4. The dining kit of claim 1, wherein an end of the knife component terminates at an angle that is similar to the angle of the spoon member relative to the central axis of the second chopstick member.