Patents by Inventor Michael Edward Barbera

Michael Edward Barbera has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5699618
    Abstract: A pair of salad and pasta tossing tools for operating with each other to assist in tossing salads, pastas, and similar objects, which tools have proportionally broad shaft, or handle that is an enlarged, widened gripable portion, and from which protrude several tines or pointed elements extending substantially parallel to each other at the other end. The several protruding elements, usually three in number, are generally "V" shaped. This tool is shaped to comfortably fit against the heel of the hand, with the four opposing fingers, opposing and gripping the tool against the shaft, such that the protruding elements or tines of each tool when used in pairs, one for each hand, co-act to lift and encompass a portion of the salad greens or pasta, to be raised or lifted from their container for "tossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Inventor: Michael Edward Barbera