Abstract: Hybrid food container lids convertible into cutlery may include a scoop section and a handle section. The scoop section may be defined by an outer edge of the lid or a tear strip formed in the lid. The handle may fold against the scoop as the lid is attached to a container. The handle may include a first guiding line that defines a first fold of the handle. The first fold may bring the sides of the handle together. Another guiding line may define a second fold of the handle that causes the scoop to become flat or concave when the handle is also folded along the first guiding line. The scoop section and the handle section may together form a piece of cutlery such as a spoon, a fork, a spork, and so forth. The cutlery and/or other portions of the hybrid lid may be disposable.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to biodegradable cutlery, and more specifically to spoons, forks, and knives. The biodegradable cutlery includes a plurality of recesses disposed on the handle forming a rib to resist twisting and bending. An indentation may be disposed along a neck of the cutlery to enhance stability further.

Abstract: Package of a food product comprising a container and a sealing foil connected to the mouth edge of the container and a tool for picking the product, fixed to the surface of the sealing foil, wherein the sealing foil has a surface of thermoplastic plastic material, the tool is a flattened body of cellulosic or wood-cellulosic material, shaped like a spatula, and is fixed to said surface of the sealing foil by ultrasound welding, in the absence of an added adhesive material, along a section of a creasing line generated on the surface of the tool by the sonotrode during the welding process.

Abstract: This disclosure describes foldable serving utensils, such as serrated, partially serrated and unserrated spatulas and serving scoops, with sharp or dull edges, that can be comprised of bendable material that can be incised, scored, perforated and folded, such as cardboard, and that can be integrated into planar lids and surfaces of boxes and other containers, such as pizza boxes.

Abstract: A tableware handle is provided. The tableware handle includes a handle body with a central axis, wherein the handle body has a cross section of “W” shape which is axisymmetrically distributed along the central axis. A tableware is provided. The tableware includes the tableware handle discussed above and a food taking portion fixedly connected with each other. The tableware handle and tableware thereof having a lightweight and good strength, are especially not easy to be broken and can be stacked stably. Moreover, there are small stacking clearance between the tableware handles, saving packaging, storage and transportation space. In additional, the tableware handle and tableware thereof are safe to use, light, comfortable and environmental protected.

Abstract: A multipurpose eating utensil has two side parts of flexible sheet material having inner edges joined unitarily by a membrane hinge unitarily for movement of the side parts between a flattened position extending generally coplanar with each other and a folded use position extending at an acute angle to each other from the hinge with the outer edges closely juxtaposed. Front and rear utensil parts are formed unitarily with the side parts of the thin but flexible sheet material and each have an inner edge joined unitarily to ends of both of the side parts and an outer end edge. One of the outer end edges is formed as a fork and the other as a spoon. Male and female fastening formations formed unitarily with the outer side edges can be fitted together to retain the side parts in the folded use position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scoop (1) used in cooking and/or portioning food, comprising a plate-like, elongated handle (10) and a plate-like scoop blade (20) as its extension. The handle (10) is provided with at least one weakening line (11) in the longitudinal direction of the handle (10), which allows the handle (10) to be bent into a chute by pressing the handle (10). The scoop blade (20) is provided with two or more weakening lines (21, 22), which join the longitudinal weakening line (11) or weakening lines of the handle (10) in such a way that the scoop blade (20) bends into a chute, cup, spoon or dish forced by the bending of the handle (10) into a chute. The weakening lines (11, 21) are formed of elastic material (13), which is more elastic than the scoop material. At the weakening lines there are slots (14) in the scoop material, which are filled up with the said elastic material (13).

Abstract: A dosing spoon is provided with two bowl portions, each with a front end for oral insertion, a back end, and a top edge along the circumference of the bowl. The spoon also has a handle portion that extends between each bowl. The first and second bowl portions are sized and shaped to contain a 2.5 mL and a 5.0 mL dose, respectively, of a substance with a specific gravity in the range of about 1.1300-1.1700. A rib may be present on the bottom surface of the handle portion to provide both additional stiffening to the handle, as well as a de-nesting feature.

Abstract: A smart material actuator having a fixed supporting member, mechanical web, actuating arm, and piezoelectric or smart material stack is disclosed, together with a sensor adapted to indicate the degree of motion of the actuating arms and controller adapted to allow safe operation of the actuator in resonant conditions. Methods of maintaining resonant operation, avoiding resonant operation, and adjusting resonant frequencies are also disclosed.

Abstract: A convenient and functional spoon-like utensil, easily transformed from the integrated composite of a thin piece of plastic adhered to a typical foil-type lid material used currently in the food industry. When the composite is rolled or folded, it forms a strong, ridged utensil with which to consume the food contents while “on-the-go.

Abstract: The disposable agitator for mixed food products has an elongated stem, which has, at a longitudinal end, an agitator blade having the shape of a spoon, and can be removably fixed to the rotary shaft of a mixer, so that the consumer can subsequently use the agitator as a utensil for eating the product previously mixed; the agitator has at least one longitudinal rib, projecting transversally from the stem and/or from the agitator blade and at the same time acting as an agitator stiffening element and an active element in the mixing action.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spoon for receiving soft or liquid food. Said spoon has a handle with an attached mouthpiece constructed of soft and flexible material. The aim of the invention is to significantly simplify the manner in which food is received by small children and people with facial paralysis. The spoon has a practical shape in that the mouthpiece is trough-shaped and concave and has a level defining upper edge, whereby the thickness of the mouthpiece in the front and on the lateral side is proportional so that its concave shape can be inverted by the pressure of the tongue (Z) during swallowing and the mouthpiece can adapt to the arched shape of the hard palate (G) in a sagital and transversal direction.

Abstract: A disposable spoon is disclosed which consists of an annular element of a firm nature, such as cardboard. The annular element is extended longitudinally by means of a flexible joint into a laminar body of a deformable nature, such as glazed paper. The laminar body has a shape similar to that of the annular element on to which it will be folded. There is further provided a handle with a groove for attaching it to the superimposed assembly of the annular element and the laminar element.

Abstract: A measuring scoop with molded reusable fit clip is disclosed. The measuring scoop includes a bowl with a scraping lip or shoulder used for more effectively lifting product into the bowl, an elongated handle which is integrally mounted on said bowl and a reusable fit clip on the free end of the handle, which clip is used for sealing closed a bag of product. The design of the handle as well as the design of the reusable fit clip extends the life of the molded friction fit clip by improving the clipping force as well as the clip's resistance to deformation from applied stress.

Abstract: A tool having a handle and a blade secured to and extending generally longitudinally from the handle is adapted for removing the contents of and scraping clean a container for liquid, semi-liquid, semi-solid or solid materials. The tool is rigid and inflexible and the blade is provided with a scoop-like member at the end thereof which is remote from the handle. The blade is also provided with separate scrapers edges which are adapted from scraping the bottom and side walls of the container.

Abstract: A container lid convertible into a spoon constitutes a one piece water-impermeable sheet of a thermoplastic resin including a flat peripheral ring having a circular outer circumference defining an inner area of three-dimensional configuration including a diametral trough the front end of which flares outwardly and terminates in the plane of the ring. Wings extend laterally outwardly from the side edges of the trough. The front ends of the wings are located at the front end of said side edges. The side edges are weakened whereby as opposite points of the periphery of the lid are squeezed together the rear portions of the wings and of the trough collapse upon one another to form a spoon handle and the front portion of the trough is narrowed and deepened to form a spoon bowl.

Abstract: A food container lid is described which is convertible into a spoon for use in eating food from the container. A flap which is separable from the remainder of the lid is bendable at its base outward from the plane of the lid covering through approximately 180.degree. so that such flap provides a spoon bowl and the lid otherwise provides a handle for manipulation of such spoon bowl. The base of the flap is positioned inwardly of the peripheral edge portion of the lid covering so that when the flap is bent outward it overlaps such peripheral edge portion which thereby provides rigidity to the connection between the spoon bowl and the handle. The lid covering and the base of the spoon bowl flap are foldable upon themselves with the covering encompassing the base in order to enhance such structural rigidity.

Abstract: A flat paper lid for a container. The lid is formed with weakened zones such as crease-score lines which enable the lid, that at the time of purchase closes an open-mouthed container holding a ladleable mass of a comestible product, to be quickly and easily converted by manual manipulation into a spoon-like eating implement.