Sanitary Utensils and Consumer Products

Abstract

The invention involves the incorporation and enablement of elements that are incorporated into a consumer product that provide necessary balance, placement, positioning, shape, contour, and geometry that prevent a portion of the product from touching or contacting a surface on which the product is placed. The elements can be readily integrated into high-volume consumable products to increase utility, function and features of the consumable product at minimal incremental cost and adjustment to production and manufacturing processes. The invention further reports processes and compositions that enable consumable products with differentiating features, which products would otherwise be deficient for their intended use and application.

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CROSS-REFERENCE To RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), this application claims priority to the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62 / 414,577 filed on Oct. 28, 2016; the disclosure of which application is herein incorporated by reference.INTRODUCTION[0002]Utensils for manipulating food are relatively well-known and typically include a fork, spoon, knife, spork or other utensil that are employed to manipulate food or for another useful purpose. Food utensils are typically utilized to avoid direct contact between the food and the user's hand, thereby preventing the user's hands from becoming soiled by the food or transmitting germs or other elements from the hand to the food.SUMMARY[0003]Sanitary consumable functional and value-added elements are integrated into, laboratory, medical, dental, oral, commercial, quality control, food service, food and beverage utensils such as spoons, baby spoons, knives, forks, sporks (spoon-forks), chopsticks, bev...

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