Patent ID: 8202073

Claim:
A handheld hamburger patty forming system comprising: a housing having a cylindrical side wall with an upper end and an open lower end; a circular disk closing the upper end, the circular disk having a central aperture; a circular pusher plate reciprocable within the housing between a raised orientation adjacent to the circular disk and a lowered orientation; a drive rod having lower and upper ends and a central extent extending through the aperture, the upper end being spaced above the circular disk, the drive rod having threads at its upper end, a nut removably coupled to the upper end; a handle having an interior end fixedly attached directly to the upper end of the cylindrical side wall of the housing and an exterior end extending away from the housing; a coil spring encompassing the central extent of the drive rod with a bottom end contacting the circular disk and with a top end contacting the nut, the coil spring being adapted to urge the pusher plate to a raised orientation whereat the housing is adapted to be filled with ground meat formed into a hamburger patty with a fixed height and a fixed diameter, the nut adapted to be pushed by the user to move the pusher plate to a lowered orientation for ejecting a perfectly formed hamburger patty ready for cooking; and an actuating finger having a pivotal end coupled to an intermediate extent of the handle, the finger also having a free end contacting the nut, the finger adapted to be depressed by a user to move the drive rod and pusher plate from the upper orientation to the lower orientation.