Patent ID: 9550305
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B26B,B26D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A bakery cutting guide comprising: a rim configured for surrounding baked goods; a plurality of spaced apart pins affixed to and extending upwardly from said rim, wherein four of said plurality of pins are disposed at corners of the rim and a remainder of said plurality of pins are evenly disposed between the rim corners; a bar positionable for engaging pairs of opposing pins configured for guiding a knife or scorer across said baked goods in order to cut or mark said baked goods in a selected geometric pattern; and a plurality of legs comprising at least three legs extending downwardly from said rim configured for supporting said rim in an elevated position above a top of said baked goods; wherein each leg of the plurality of legs comprises a first leg element only pivotably connected to the rim at one end and the first leg element at another end is also only pivotably connected to a second leg element, wherein the second leg element is configured to removably engage a feature on the rim, thereby forming the plurality of legs extending downwardly; and wherein each leg of the plurality of legs comprises a torsion spring, wherein each torsion spring is defined as having a spring center with a first spring extension opposite a second spring extension, where the spring center is pivotably coupled to the rim aligned with the pivotable connection of the one end of the first leg element, and wherein the first spring extension is configured to directly engage the rim and the second spring extension is configured to directly engage the first leg element, where the torsion spring biases the first leg element to pivot towards the rim.