Patent ID: 6085642
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
An inexpensive cooking utensil for use on open fires for cooking, and protecting while cooking foodstuffs held by the utensil, comprising:a skewer member having a handle end and a sharpened point end and formed of metal rod of sufficient diameter to support a foodstuff to be cooked without undue flexure of the skewer member, said skewer member having a heat insulating material attached to its handle end to form a handle and having, near its sharpened point end, a moveable guard or cage member, slideably mounted on said rod between an open position and a closed position, said guard or cage member having a generally circular cross section and being formed of wire rings fixedly attached to at least three longitudinal support members, said support members being twisted together to form an annular slide runner sized to allow internal passage of said rod member therethrough, thereby allowing said guard or cage member to slide from an open position nearer said handle end to a closed position nearer said sharpened point end of said rod member.