JPH0219088Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Industrial field of application) This invention relates to foldable Western tableware used in camps, etc., and is used in the field of manufacturing Western tableware.

(Prior art) This type of folding Western tableware has been widely known in the past, but all of them involve rotating a single gripping rod at one end of the base of the Western tableware, such as the scooping part of a spoon or the piercing part of a fork. It was freely fixed on the shaft.

(Problems to be solved by invention) According to the above conventional technology, since there was only one gripping rod, the gripping rod would rotate freely beyond the center line of Western tableware, and this could be prevented. I needed a stopper to do this.

However, the purpose of this invention is to make it possible to fix the gripping rod in a predetermined position.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The folding Western tableware of this invention is constructed by rotatably fixing the base ends of two gripping rods to one end of the base of the Western tableware. The base of the Western tableware may be the scooping part of a spoon, the piercing part of a fork, or the blade part of a knife. If the base of Western tableware is curved like the scooping part of a spoon or the prong of a fork, the vertical relationship between the base of Western tableware and the grip rod will be reversed when folded. In some cases, the gripping rod may hit the base of the Western tableware, making it impossible to fold it completely, so in such cases, it is recommended to provide a notch on the outside of the gripping rod that connects to the base of the Western tableware. preferable.

(Function of the invention) In this invention, when the two gripping rods are gripped together, one works as a stopper to restrict the rotation of the other. Therefore, the gripping rod can be fixed in a predetermined position without providing a special stopper.

Examples of this invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Example) The base ends of two gripping rods 3, 3a are rotatably attached to the base end of a scooping part 2 of a spoon with a split part 1 at the tip by shafts 4, 4a. be. The shafts 4, 4a sandwich the centerline a of the scooping portion 2 and are positioned on a straight line orthogonal thereto. The gripping rods 3 and 3a are each constructed by laminating a band-shaped front plate 5 and a back plate 6, and the base end of the scooping portion 2 is located between the front plate 5 and the back plate 6. It's trapped. In this structure, when the gripping rods 3, 3a are rotated in the direction of arrows 7, 7a in FIG. This corresponds to the outside of the base of No. 2. Therefore, in order to eliminate the collision between the back plate 6 and the scooping part 2, cutouts 8 are provided on the outside of the back plate 6 to connect with the scooping part 2, respectively.

According to the above embodiment, when the two gripping rods 3, 3a are rotated to positions parallel to each other and pulled out, and the gripping rods 3, 3a are gripped together, the shafts 4, 4a are at the center of the scooping part 2. Since they are positioned on a straight line perpendicular to line a, the gripping rods 3, 3a automatically align with the center line a.
It will be fixed in a position parallel to. Therefore, there is no risk that the scooping part 2 or the gripping rods 3, 3a will rotate freely during use. In addition, the gripping rods 3, 3
By providing the concave and convex fitting portions on the opposing side walls in the pulled-out state of a, it is possible to reliably prevent the gripping rods from shifting from each other.

According to the above embodiment, since the base of the scooping part 2 is fixed by being sandwiched between the front and back plates 5, 6 of the gripping rods 3, 3a, there is no fear that the gripping rods 3, 3a may swing in the vertical direction in FIG. , you can get a stable feeling of use. Moreover, since the back plate 6 is provided with the notch 8, the back plate 6 does not hit the outside of the scooping part 2 when folded. Therefore, the gripping rods 3 and 3a are connected to the front and back plates 5 and 6.
Even in this case, the gripping rods 3, 3a can be completely folded to the states shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.

Note that the back plate 6 is not an essential requirement.

(Effect of the invention) According to this invention, the base ends of the two gripping rods are rotatably attached to one end of the base of the Western tableware, so if the two gripping rods are pulled out and gripped at the same time, the Western tableware can be held. The relative position of the base and the gripping rod is fixed, and the gripping rod does not rotate freely. Therefore, the stopper of the gripping rod that was conventionally required is no longer necessary, and the folding Western tableware can be made with a simple structure.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a front sectional view of the embodiment of the invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view, FIG. 3 is a plan view of the folded state, and FIG. 4 is a bottom view. 2... Scooping part, 3, 3a... Gripping rod, 4...
Shaft, 5...Top plate, 6...Back plate, 8...Notch.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] 1. Folding Western tableware in which the base ends of two gripping rods are rotatably fixed to one end of the base of the Western tableware across the center line of the base of the Western tableware. 2. The folding Western tableware according to claim 1, wherein the base of the Western tableware is a scooping part of a spoon or a protruding part of a fork. 3. The folding Western tableware according to claim 1, wherein the gripping rod has a notch on the outside that fits into the base of the Western tableware when folded.