Title: Pastry serving implement

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1. A utensil for serving pastry and the like comprising a peel blade adapted to be introduced beneath the pastry for supporting the same and a gripping blade movable relatively to each other about a common axis, substantially U-shaped resilient yielding means integral with the blades tending to bias the blades away from each other, manually actuatable means for manipulating the utensil and linkage interconnecting said manually actuatable means and said blades for moving said blades toward each other in opposition to the bias of said yielding means in response to the actuation of said manually actuatable means, said linkage being responsive to relative movement of said manually actuatable means in substantial parallelism with said common axis, and said manually actuatable means comprise spaced elements movable toward and away from each other relatively to said peel blade to move the gripping blade toward and away from the peel blade.

2. A utensil for serving pastry and the like comprising a peel blade and a gripping blade movable relatively to each other about a common axis, yielding means tending to bias the blades away from each other, manually actuatable means for manipulating the utensil and linkage interconnecting said manually actuatable means and said blades for moving said blades toward each other in opposition to the bias of said yielding means in response to the actuating of said manually actuatable means, said manually actuatable means including a flexible resilient substantially elliptical strip and said linkage being connected thereto at the extremities of the minor axis of the elliptical strip.

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Inventors: Federico, Arthur (Brigantine, NJ, US)

Application Number: 712029
Filing Date: 1976-08-05
Publication_date: 1978-02-21
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 294/7 294/25, D7/687
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

345846	Jul, 1886	Holmes	294/25.
1049956	Jan, 1913	Wheeler	294/104.
1104338	Jul, 1914	Babitzky	294/115.
2031183	Feb, 1936	Sonnenburg	294/7.
2182726	Dec, 1939	King et al.	294/7.
2304966	Dec, 1942	Thrower	294/33.
2561807	Jul, 1951	Malavazos	294/33.

Other Refs: 5,701 OF

�, 1884	UK

Primary Examiner: Cherry, Johnny D.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Walton; W. Wyclif