Patent ID: 6408521
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A hygienic spoon for facilitating the prevention of human oral fluids from reaching the source cuisine when the procedure of tasting occurs, comprising two spoon shaped ladle ends connected by a handle, said handle housing a channel for the entire length of said handle, with said channel emptying on both ends into said two ladle ends such that a fluid contained in either of said ladle ends may be allowed to run along said handle by the force of gravity under the control of an operator such that a portion of said fluid can be conveyed into the second of said ladle ends when initially introduced into the first of said ladle ends;with the extreme outer lip of one of said two ladle ends extended further up into space through the two dimensional ovoid that normally defines the upper containment lip of a spoon shaped ladle end.