Patent Application
20210219563
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The disclosure relates to utensil devices and more particularly pertains to a new utensil device for removing meat from chicken wings.
The prior art relates to utensil devices for removing meat from bones, and in particular meat from chicken wings. Existing devices are often of more generic shape and not specifically designed to the bone structure of chicken. Existing devices may involve multiple components and may require more costly production, preventing them from being mass-produced, disposable utensils. Furthermore, existing devices do not offer dedicated ends for wings and legs (drumsticks).
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tool body comprising a top side, a bottom side, and an outer edge. The tool body is substantially planar and has a left end portion, a right end portion, and a body portion extending between the left end portion and the right end portion. The left end portion has a first left jaw and a second left jaw defining a left receiving area configured to receive a chicken wing. The first left jaw has a first left notch along a first left inner edge and the second left jaw has a second left notch along a second left inner edge. The right end portion has a first right jaw and a second right jaw defining a right receiving area configured to receive a chicken leg. The first right jaw has a first right notch along a first right inner edge.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The left end portion 20 has a first left jaw 28 and a second left jaw 30 defining a left receiving area 32 configured to receive a chicken wing. The first left jaw 28 has a first left notch 34 along a first left inner edge 36 and may have a corner notch 38 adjacent the body portion 24. The first left inner edge 36 may otherwise be linear and the first left notch 34 may be medially located on the first left inner edge 36. The second left jaw 30 has a second left notch 40 along a second left inner edge 42. The second left notch 40 may have a semicircular portion 44 and an elongated portion 45. The first left jaw 28 and the second left jaw 30 may have a rounded first left outer edge 46 and a rounded second left outer edge 48, respectively. A length of the first left jaw 28 may be longer than a length of the second left jaw 30.
The right end portion 22 has a first right jaw 50 and a second right jaw 52 define a right receiving area 54 configured to receive a chicken leg. The first right jaw 50 has a first right notch 56 along a first right inner edge 58. A second right inner edge 60 of the second right jaw 52 may be a circular arc. The first right notch 56 may be U-shaped and adjacent the second right inner edge 60. The remainder of the first right inner edge 58 may be linear and forms an angle of at least 30° with a body edge 62 of the body portion. The first right jaw 50 and the second right jaw 52 may have a rounded first right outer edge 64 and a rounded second right outer edge 66, respectively. A left width 68 between the first left outer edge 46 and the second left outer edge 48 may be less than a right width 70 between the first right outer edge 64 and the second right outer edge 66.
In use, the user secures the body portion 24 and utilizes the left end portion 20 on a chicken wing by placing the wing within the left receiving area 32 and positioning the bones within the first left notch 34, the corner notch 38, or the second left notch 40 and moving the apparatus 10 along the wing to remove the meet with the first left jaw 28 and the second left jaw 30. The user alternatively secures the body portion 24 and utilizes the right end portion 22 on a chicken leg by placing the leg within the right receiving area 54 and position the bone within the first right notch 56 and moving the apparatus 10 along the leg to remove the meet with the first right jaw 50 and the second right jaw 52.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
