Patent ID: 7128556

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a shaft having a gripping end and a distal end remote from said gripping end; and a shaper disposed at the distal end, said shaper including: a scoop, fixed to the distal end of the shaft at an attachment location, including a first cavity collecting and holding a bolus of a compressible medium, the compressible medium retaining a post-compressed shape, the cavity generally semi-spherical and including an opening for receiving the bolus, the opening defining a plane generally disposed parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft; and a former including a second cavity cooperating with the first cavity, hingedly coupled to the shaft proximate the attachment location without extending into a second handle and mating with the scoop, cooperating with the scoop to mold and compress the bolus into a generally spherical ball retained within the shaper using single-handed operation, wherein the scoop and the former include opposing sections of a generally spherical shell, wherein the former includes an open position relative to the scoop and a closed position relative to the scoop, the former molding the bolus in the closed position, and wherein the former is biased to the open position.