Device for a Set of Cutlery

Abstract

A set of cutlery includes an eating part connected to a handle part, increasing the ability of small children to eat by themselves with the cutlery and encouraging them to grasp the cutlery with precision. A device for the set of cutlery includes a spoon piece and/or a fork piece having a handle connected to an eating part of the piece. The handle has a grip part that extends from the eating part. The width of the handle is about 1-10 mm and the handle has a height that exceeds the width. A user of the piece can grasp, by a precision grasp, the handle of the piece between the thumb and at least one other finger.

1 .- 10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . A device for a set of cutlery for children, comprising:
 at least one of a spoon piece and a fork piece, the at least one piece having a handle connected to an eating part of the piece, the handle having a grip part that enables a user of the at least one piece to grasp the handle of the piece between the user's thumb and at least one other finger, wherein a width of the handle is between about 1 millimeter (mm) and about 10 mm, a height of the handle is between about 10 mm and about 30 mm at the grip part, and the handle has at least one depression at the grip part forming a finger grip.   
     
     
         12 . The device of  claim 11 , wherein the width is 1-5 mm. 
     
     
         13 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the height of the handle increases from the connection of the handle to the eating part. 
     
     
         14 . The device of claim  10 , wherein depressions are situated on sides of the handle. 
     
     
         15 . The device of  claim 14 , wherein the depressions are connected through the handle by a through-hole. 
     
     
         16 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the handle is connected to the eating part by a tapering joint connected to an underside of the eating part. 
     
     
         17 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the handle has a projecting outer end part that forms a tip from the grip part. 
     
     
         18 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the handle is shaped as a fantasy figure, an animal, or a vehicle. 
     
     
         19 . The device of claim  10 , wherein a longitudinal mean plane through the grip part is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal mean plane through the eating part. 
     
     
         20 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the grip part extends at an angle of between about 30° and about 45° from the eating part. 
     
     
         21 . The device of claim  10 , wherein the handle has a widened contact surface, either at the connection to the eating part or at an outer end part of the handle.