Compact cutlery kit which manifests its previous use through release of its parts

• US 8,938,833 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Simplo SA
• Original Assignee: Alberto Alejandro Gonzalez Ramos, Jose Manuel Allard Serrano
• Inventors: Allard Serrano, Jos Manuel, Gonzlez Ramos, Alberto Alejandro
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, David B
• Application Number:
  US13/384,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,915 Days
• Field of Search: 711/2, 711/3, 716/9, 301/37, 301/42, 30147-150, 428/221
• US Class Current: 7/151
• 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 kit configured from a laminar sheet which manifests its previous use through the detachment of its parts. The kit is comprised of two or more daily, known utensils selected from a spoon, a fork and a knife, which are jointly located in a single plane and are separated by thin, continuous dotted or cut lines. The utensils fit into each other in a complementary form, counter-form way and remain joined together by the presence of continuities in the surface where these continuities interrupt the dotted lines. Each of these cutlery utensils is detached from the others through breaking, done by the user, of these continuities on the surface.

Claims

1. A cutlery kit configured from a single rigid laminar sheet, the kit comprising two or more daily, well-known utensils jointly and substantially located in a single plane where the utensils are configured partly by one or more gaps interrupting the continuity of the single sheet for detachment of the utensils from the single sheet by the user before using the utensils, and wherein the utensils fit into each other in a complementary form and remain joined together by the presence of continuities in the sheet.

2. The cutlery kit according to claim 1 wherein each of the utensils is released from the others through breaking, done by the user, of these continuities in the sheet.

3. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein the location of the continuities may be at the end of a defined area to grasp the utensils or handles, or between the handles.

4. The cutlery kit according to claim 3 wherein the location of the continuities are at the end of the defined grasping area, with the one or more gaps between the handles of the utensils.

5. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein the kit is composed of a combination of at least two different cutlery utensils.

6. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein the kit further includes a toothpick.

7. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein the kit further includes an element for uncapping beverage bottles.

8. The cutlery kit according claim 2 wherein the laminar sheet may have different thicknesses in order to achieve a desired effect in the cutlery.

9. The cutlery kit according to claim 8 wherein the laminar sheet has a reduced thickness in order to comprise a recipient for facilitating the consumption of liquids.

10. The cutlery kit according to claim 8 wherein the laminar sheet may have a greater thickness in some areas so as to provide a greater resistance to bending.

11. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein the rigid laminar sheet is made of wood, cardboard, plastic, aluminum, or a bendable material.

12. The cutlery kit according to claim 2 wherein a pair of utensils are joined together by two or more gaps.