Patent ID: 9655471
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A47J

Claim:
1. A disposable, non-absorbent cooking utensil comprising a semi-rigid, non-metallic, splatter guard and a handle for lifting and manipulating placement of the utensil, the splatter guard being formed from of a single sheet of material originally shaped as a flat obround, an obround being defined as two semicircles facing opposite directions and connected along their straight sides by a rectangular section of any non-zero length, where the obround further comprises three pre-creased folds, one in the center of the rectangular section and the other two on either side of said center crease in positions that coincide to the flat edge of each semicircular section, the final shape of the splatter guard being formed by first folding the sheet in half at the center crease and then folding each side back along creases corresponding to the flat side of each semicircular section such that the entire rectangular section is raised into a handle perpendicular to the plane of the semicircular sections, with radii of the semicircular sections dimensioned so as to rest on or just within the rim of the cooking vessel and the length of the rectangular section long enough to form a raised, substantially flat handle of at least one half inch but no more than six inches, where the material that comprises the splatter guard is made from paper which has been chemically treated to render it temperature and flame resistant.