Scooping-up and receiving body structure for scooping up and receiving food on dish

Abstract

A scooping-up and receiving body structure for scooping up and receiving food placed on a dish includes: an upper clamp body and a lower clamp body that are configured to be openable and closable about a lateral shaft and to be biased to an peripheral edge portion of the dish in a clamping manner; a space portion that is formed below the upper clamp body so as to avoid the peripheral edge portion of the dish; and a scooping-up plate that is contiguously formed with an edge of a distal end of the upper clamp body, is biased downward by pressing, and is formed in a semicircular shape as viewed in a plan view and in a curved shape as viewed in a longitudinal cross section.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A scooping-up and receiving body structure for scooping up and receiving food placed on a dish, the scooping-up and receiving body structure comprising:
 an upper clamp body and a lower clamp body that are configured to be openable and closable about a lateral shaft and to be biased to a peripheral edge portion of the dish in a clamping manner;   a space portion that is formed below the upper clamp body so as to avoid the peripheral edge portion of the dish; and   a scooping-up plate that is contiguously formed with an edge portion of a distal end of the upper clamp body, is biased downward by pressing, and is formed in a semicircular shape as viewed in a plan view and in a curved shape as viewed in a longitudinal cross section.   
     
     
         2 . The scooping-up and receiving body structure for scooping up and receiving food placed on a dish according to  claim 1 , wherein the lower clamp body is formed of a resilient material so as to follow an outer side surface of a periphery of the dish as much as possible. 
     
     
         3 . The scooping-up and receiving body structure for scooping up and receiving food placed on a dish according to  claim 1 , wherein a swinging restricting lug that is configured to restrict swinging of the scooping-up and receiving body structure by being brought into contact with an upper surface of an outer side surface of the peripheral edge portion of the dish is formed on the upper clamp body in a protruding manner into the space portion that is formed for avoiding the edge portion of the dish.