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WO2003022111A1 - Couverts a reglage manuel pour enfants droitiers ou gauchers - Google Patents

Couverts a reglage manuel pour enfants droitiers ou gauchers Download PDF

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WO2003022111A1
WO2003022111A1 PCT/EP2001/010559 EP0110559W WO03022111A1 WO 2003022111 A1 WO2003022111 A1 WO 2003022111A1 EP 0110559 W EP0110559 W EP 0110559W WO 03022111 A1 WO03022111 A1 WO 03022111A1
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Ibrahim Bora
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Enpros International B.V.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G21/00—Table-ware
    • A47G21/02—Forks; Forks with ejectors; Combined forks and spoons; Salad servers

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  • the present invention relates to cutlery for little children and toddlers at the age of learning to eat with fork and spoon, whereby curved cutlery could be helpful in bringing food from a plate or bowl to their mouth.
  • Jagger discloses cutlery which is pre-bent in various shapes that should enable young children to grasp spoon or fork in a better way to ease eating, requiring less muscular control of the child. Although it is foreseen that the operative portion of the spoon or fork is turned inwardly, no change of the bending angle can be made afterwards by the parents themselves and therefore the cutlery can not be adjusted to the specific needs of the young or disabled child.
  • Klemmer discloses a solution (US patent 5,890,223) whereby a fixed curved handle or handles can hold various implants for eating. As described, the angle between the handle and operative eating part may be in the range of typically 15° to 50°. Klemmer, however, overcomes the problem of a specific need by providing a set of handles with different angles and which can hold various sets of implants as spoon and fork portions, each to the like of the young or impaired child. Also when the child becomes more profound in using the fork or spoon different handles and/ or implants are available until the child is adequately trained to handle the normal straight cutlery. The disadvantage of this solution is that a number of different handles with angles between 15° and 50° are required.
  • Watson discloses in US-patent description 6,134,790 a utensil kit for children that has a flexible handle with interchangeable mouth pieces for eating, tooth brushing, hair brushing or the like.
  • the flexible portion is not further described other than that it is meant for not harming the small child while using the utensil.
  • Thomas discloses in his patent description US 5,479,708 a utensil holder for infants and toddlers, with a loop shaped handle that can be gripped in many positions, which is comfortable for the eating child, thereby providing a set of inserts, that fit within the handle to make it universal in its application.
  • this utensil makes eating easier for the group of children at this stage of development, no adjustment is foreseen of having an angle between the operative eating part and the handle, in the vertical direction.
  • the present invention comprises a utensil that enables children to eat with fork and spoon in a more convenient way than a straight utensil as used by grown-ups, by adjusting the eating part of the utensil manually to a shape that fits the stage of development in which the child at that moment is.
  • the utensil consists of three major parts being a handle and eating portion, each part normally cast or molded in plastic and an interconnection piece between the two made of a soft bendable material, such as a piece of metal.
  • This interconnection is either cast in the handle and eating part during the molding process or brought together at a later stage of producing the utensil, eg by screwing or pressing the soft metal piece into a bore of the handle and eating part.
  • a force is exerted between the eating part and the handle, that will bent the piece of metal into the required position.
  • the invention is also applicable to a toothbrush, a comb, hair brush and the like.
  • the soft bendable piece of material between handle and eating part is covered with a flexible resilient material smoothly shaped between the handle and eating portion of the utensil and forms therewith an integral part in such a way that the soft bendable piece of material remains completely covered.
  • this resilient cover part may be cast in a mold during a second stage of production or when an assembly technique is used by screwing the pieces together, a tube like construction is applied, that can be pushed over the soft bendable material part between the handle and the eating portion of the utensil.
  • the primary object of the invention is to provide a utensil for young or disabled children, that ease the use of it in learning to use utensils themselves without the aid of their parents or caretakers in bringing their food from a plate or bowl to their mouth in a controlled manner.
  • the utensil is normally manufactured in a straight shape, whereby the handle and eating portion is in a straight line, but allows to be bent into any position, that is convenient for the youngster or disabled child.
  • the utensil can be produced as a fork, spoon, toothbrush, comb and the like as separate units, but also as implants with one handle and various eating or application parts together with a soft material part, covered with a soft flexible resilient material, that can be screwed together to form the required piece of utensil that is needed at a specific time.
  • FIG. 1 is a top view of the present invention in the shape of a fork, whereby initially the handle and eating portion is in a straight line with an interconnection (dashed) piece of material that is hidden by a soft flexible resilient cover piece
  • FIG. 2 is a top view of the present invention showing an extreme curvature of a fork whereby the eating part is bent over an angle of 90° relative to the centerline of the handle in the horizontal plane
  • FIG. 3 is a top view of a spoon, similar to FIG. 1 for the fork
  • FIG. 4 is a top view of a spoon in its extreme position of curvature, similar to FIG. 2 of the fork
  • FIG. 5 is a general cross-section taken along the line A-A in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 6 is a cross-section taken along the line B-B in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 7 is a cross-section taken along the line C-C in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 8 is a cross-section taken along the line D-D in FIG. 3
  • FIG. 9 is a circular Cross-section of the metal insert relative to FIG. 6, whereby a rectangular shaped insert 3 is used.
  • FIG 1 and 2 shows the embodiment of a fork having a straight handle 1 and an operative eating part 2, which are interconnected by a straight piece of soft material 3, which material could be a piece of metal such as aluminum or copper with a rectangular or circular cross-section as shown in FIG 6 or 9 respectively, or any other shape.
  • the handle has in general an oval cross section of FIG. 5 at a arbitrarily location A-A that tapers down to a round cross-section of FIG. 6 at location B-B, in such away that the fork can be easily and firmly held in the hands of a small child.
  • the operative portion has the general shape of a fork as in FIG. 1 or a spoon as in FIG. 3, that can hold food, and whereby the tines of the fork are blunt, in order not to impair the child while it is learning to eat.
  • the soft metal insert 3 is either placed into the mold, when the handle and eating portion of the fork is molded in a plastic molding process or screwed into a bore of the handle and eating portion afterwards when the handle and eating portion is molded in an earlier stage of the molding process.
  • the metal insert shall be of adequate length to assure that both the handle and the eating portion is securely fixed together either by casting or screwing.
  • the fixing of the two part of the fork shall be such that when a manual force is applied to the eating part and the handle, only the metal insert 3 will be bent but will remain securely fixed within the handle and eating part of the utensil.
  • the cross-section of the metal insert is therefore substantially smaller than the cross section of the molded handle and eating part at the location of the joint, as shown in FIG 6, 7 and 9.
  • the metal insert should be strong enough to remain in the bent position when no further bending force is applied.
  • the parents or caretakers of the child should be able to exert the required bending force while a small child does not have the power nor the control of bending the fork in the desired position.
  • the parent should be able to bring the eating part relative to the handle in a position that makes a child, having less muscular control than the grown ups, be able to bring food from a plate or bowl to their mouth, without the aid of the parent or caretaker.
  • the maximum amount of bending angle 5 between the center line 7 of the handle and 8 of the operative eating portion, in the horizontal plane could be as much as 90° as shown in FIG. 2 and 4, but could at the same time be bent in the vertical plane, not shown in the drawings.
  • the insert 3 is covered with a flexible resilient material 4 of FIG. 1, that is either molded around the metal insert 3 in a second molding process or a piece of flexible tube that is assembled later on, by screwing the handle 1 and eating part 2 onto the insert 3, thereby forming an integral part with the handle 1 and the operative eating part 2.
  • the construction allows the bending operation as described above to shape 6, providing a smooth integral surface between the two joining parts 1 and 2.
  • utensil in the shape of a fork can be adjusted to any shape that is comfortable for the eating child.
  • Other type of utensils are foreseen being a spoon as shown in FIG.3 and 4 or other useful tools such as a toothbrush, comb and the like, not shown in the drawings.
  • the operative portion of the eating part 2 of the fork is replaced by a bowl 9 having a general cross-section of FIG. 8 at location D-D of FIG. 3 for forming a spoon or any other implants forming other type of utensils.

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L'invention concerne une fourchette (2) ou une cuiller (9) constituée d'un matériau moulable, tel que le plastique, comprenant une pièce implantée (3) en matériau mou cintrable entre la partie manche (1) et la partie aliments de la fourchette ou de la cuiller. Grâce à cette pièce en matériau cintrable, la partie aliments de la fourchette ou de la cuiller peut être cintrée de façon à être utilisée par un enfant afin qu'il puisse manger plus facilement un plat ou dans un bol. La partie aliments de la fourchette ou de la cuiller, qui peut être cintrée dans n'importe quelle position par rapport à la partie manche, reste dans cette position jusqu'à ce qu'une force importante relative soit appliquée entre la partie aliments et le manche afin d'amener la partie aliments dans une autre position par rapport au manche. En général, seuls les parents seront capables d'appliquer la force requise afin de donner au couvert à la forme souhaitée. La partie cintrable du couvert est recouverte d'un matériau élastique flexible mou (4), de façon que la pièce implantée de matériau ne puisse pas être vue de l'extérieur. Cette partie cintrable forme en outre une transition douce entre la partie manche et la partie aliments du couvert. Lorsque l'enfant aura acquis plus d'expérience dans la manipulation d'une fourchette ou d'une cuiller, le couvert pourra reprendre une forme plus droite comme celle utilisée par les adultes.
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CN104957944A (zh) * 2015-06-29 2015-10-07 上海理工大学 手握式筷子柄
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WO2011123491A1 (fr) * 2010-03-30 2011-10-06 Keith Alfred Hemstreet Ustensile auxiliaire
CN104957944A (zh) * 2015-06-29 2015-10-07 上海理工大学 手握式筷子柄
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CN108477953A (zh) * 2015-06-29 2018-09-04 上海理工大学 具有曲压杆的手握式筷子柄
CN105534227A (zh) * 2016-02-24 2016-05-04 吴大强 一种医用餐勺
CN105615533A (zh) * 2016-02-24 2016-06-01 吴大强 一种适用于医患人员的餐勺
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