Patent ID: 7387507

Claim:
A scoop for dispensing ice cream and similar frozen products from a bulk container, comprising: a generally part-spherical body having an open side and a leading edge extending across the open side and positioned to cut into the product to be dispensed; an elongated handle secured to one side of said body and projecting outwardly therefrom to be gripped by a user; and a generally pointed tip on said body at the end of said leading edge remote from the handle, said tip extending away from the handle for insertion into the product upon endwise movement of scoop toward the product to facilitate penetration into hard frozen products; and said leading edge beginning on a side of said tip and curving generally helically across the body toward the handle, first convexly outwardly adjacent the tip and then concavely across the body to and end of the leading edge adjacent the handle, whereby the scoop can be pushed into the product and turned with an auger-like action to form a ball of the product in the scoop.