Abstract: A salad tong having a pair of resilient gripping arms and a hand guard assembly. The hand guard assembly may be in the form of a U-shaped guard having a front wall with the rear ends of the tong extending through a slot therein and having a rear wall with a slot through which the rear end of the salad tong extends, with a locking pin to hold the salad tongs in position. Alternately, the hand guard assembly is in the form of a separate hand grip on each arm.

Abstract: A multi purpose bayonet including a combat knife and scabbard is disclosed. The system can be used to sever wire and the like using one hand.

Abstract: A cutting and serving implement for pizza or other pies comprises a blade having a body portion with an arcuate cutting edge, and a handle portion extending from the body portion opposite the cutting edge at an angle of about 135.degree.. The configuration of the implement facilitates cutting of a pizza into slices by downward pressure applied on the handle accompanied by a rocking motion of the implement on the cutting edge, and lifting of a cut slice for serving, by insertion of the body portion under the slice.

Abstract: A shellfish cutting and eating implement having first and second lever members pivotally connected together. The first lever member includes a first elongated handle portion and a first elongated jaw portion defining a first cutting edge, a first substantially flat side surface and a flared end. The second lever member includes a second elongated handle portion and a second elongated jaw portion defining a second notched cutting edge. The flared end of the first lever member is substantially flat and perpendicular to the first flat side surface to help keep the first jaw portion in the proper position during the cutting operation. The flared end also defines a pointed forward end, in the shape of a fork, to facilitate spearing and removal of the shellfish meat.

Abstract: A holder for holding down steadily a crab shell, and a cutter for cutting the shell meanwhile, the holder being toothed so as to grip the shell, and the cutter having a toothed blade for cutting therethrough.

Abstract: An improved utensil for cutting pizza or the like is disclosed having a sharpened cutting wheel and a planar blade with a sharpened edge, the edges of both the wheel and blade are aligned so that the cutting paths traversed by each coincide. The pizza crust edges and the pizza body can then be cut respectively by the blade and cutter wheel in one cutting stroke across the pizza. The blade end further includes angled corners for completely separating the pizza at the pan corners. The planar blade is of sufficient width to hold a piece of pizza thereon for serving, and includes a serrated cutting edge to aid in inserting the blade between the pizza and the pan.

Abstract: A combination fork has a handle at one end of an elongated shaft, and tines are provided at the other end of the shaft for cooking food morsels over an open source of heat. The handle of the cooking fork includes at the butt end thereof an open bore. A smaller fork is adapted to be force-fit into the bore. The smaller fork may be extracted from the bore to remove the cooked food morsels from the tines of the larger fork.In a preferred embodiment, the bore in the larger fork is generally cylindrical and extends substantially the length of the handle. The smaller fork is inserted into the bore with the tines first, and the handle of the smaller fork has a small conical taper enlarging toward the butt end, whereby the force-fit inside of the bore of the larger fork is accomplished by pushing the small fork into the bore to a point where the diameter of the tapered handle equals or slightly exceeds the diameter of the mouth of the bore.

Abstract: A pocket can opener comprises a body with a propelling wheel and a handle for rotating the propelling wheel and a cutter blade pivotally attached to the body so that both the handle and the cutter blade can fold down across the body with the cutter blade overlying and being of such a size as to cover the propelling wheel when the can opener is in inoperative condition. The cutter blade also provides a bottle opener at its free end having a longer arm and a shorter arm, the longer arm being shaped also as an opener for pressed-on jar lids, this latter opener structure being so arranged as to take up no additional space in the folded condition of the parts.

Abstract: A combined eating utensil usable as a holder, pusher, blocking member, and knife. The utensil is a generally planar member having a longitudinally-extending straight bottom edge terminating in upwardly extending arcuate-shaped side portions. Upper ends of the side portions are connected to each other to define the top of the utensil. At least one of the side portions has a part thereof sharpened to define a cutting edge. A profiled portion is positioned above the bottom edge to facilitate gripping of the utensil by a user.

Abstract: An implement for assisting people in developing better eating habits comprising an instrumentality such as a fork, knife or spoon detachably attached to a hollow handle and wherein there are window openings at the top side of the handle, diodes of two different colors visible at the windows and circuitry including a battery and an on/off switch for causing the diodes to be alternately turned on and off at predetermined intervals.

Abstract: An implement of tableware adapted to work in conjunction with conventional silverwave to clear all food from the plate. The tableware implement comprises a bowl head having a front scooped, pushing surface, peripherally defined by variously contoured scraping edges, and a handle attached to the rear of the bowl head. The variously contoured edges serve as scrapers, at least one edge is flat to maximally contact the surface of a flat plate, and at least one other edge is curved to maximally conform to the rounded bottom surface of cups and bowls.

Abstract: A wooden cooking tool is taught wherein a shank of substantial strength connects a contoured spoon-bowl at one end and a contoured fanned spatula at the other. The spoon-bowl blends symmetrically into the shank portion and is contoured so that its outermost end projects ventrally relative to the axis of the tool. The spoon-bowl serves the function of not only a spoon-bowl per se, but also that of a handle member when the tool is turned upside down for use as a spatula. The size, shape and thickness of the spoon-bowl permit one to grip it with the fingers of one's hand inside the convex portion and the palm on the concave outer portion. The spatula is a contoured fanned structure which terminates in an angularly disposed substantially straight edge. The slope or angularity of this edge is such that the lateral extremity of it lying most outwardly from the shank is at the right of the axis of the tool as the tool is gripped at the spoon-bowl for spatula use and the spatula pointed upwardly.