JP3129675U - chopsticks - Google Patents

Abstract

【Task】
Provide chopsticks that can prevent food from sliding down and are easy to use.
[Solution]
It is assumed that the chopsticks 1 are provided with a hand-held portion 10 composed of a pair of rod-shaped bodies and a plurality of sandwiching portions 11 having predetermined bending elasticity along the axial direction from the distal end side of the hand-held portion 10. Moreover, the clamping part 11 may converge the clamping parts 11 toward the front end side. When food is sandwiched by the sandwiching portions 11 regardless of the direction of the chopsticks, each sandwiching portion 11 is elastically deformed, so that the food f can be easily held by the chopsticks and sliding is prevented.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a chopstick used for eating, and more particularly to a chopstick provided with a holding mechanism on the tip side of the chopstick for facilitating grasping of food.

Chopsticks are traditional meal tools that have been used for a long time, and they hold a proper amount of food with a pair of sticks and carry them to the mouth. As a shape of the chopsticks, a shape that becomes narrower toward the tip side than a hand-held portion held by hand is generally used. Chopsticks function as a convenient eating tool when you get used to it.For example, when using chopsticks to pick up food such as round bars or spheres, if the direction of gripping with chopsticks is not completely opposite, It acts as a force pushing out in the lateral direction, and as a result, the food may slide off the chopsticks.
Alternatively, when picking food with a slippery surface such as natto, the food may slip and fall off the chopsticks because the food cannot slip properly.
In particular, foreigners who are not familiar with chopsticks, infants, elderly people, etc., who are not good at applying good force to the tips of fingers, have inconvenienced the handling of foods with the above properties.

Therefore, there is Utility Model Registration Document 1 as a technique for making the tip side of the chopsticks into a fork shape, and Utility Model Registration Document 2 as a technique for making only one side of the chopsticks U-shaped.
Moreover, there is Utility Model Registration Document 3 as a technique for making the tip side of the chopsticks into a fork shape and flattening the cross section of the chopsticks. If such chopsticks are used, it is said that foods having the above-described properties can be easily stabbed and held or picked and held.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 07-027377, FIG. Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 06-000233, FIG. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 09-252910, FIG.

However, in Utility Model Registration Documents 1 and 2, it is easy to use as chopsticks because the surfaces of chopsticks that the hand grips are almost the same shape, but if the chopsticks are gripped inadvertently, the fronts of the clamping parts at the tip do not face each other A case arises. In this case, when the food is actually picked, the food is caught other than front-to-front, and the fulcrum for holding the food is not fixed and is unstable.
In the utility model registration document 3, since the cross section of the chopsticks is flat, it is relatively easy to consciously rotate the chopsticks and maintain the front faces of the nips at the tip of the chopsticks facing each other. The chopsticks were two-fork holding with one hand, and the cross-section of the chopsticks was flat, making it difficult to use as chopsticks.

As a result of earnest research on the above-mentioned problems, the present inventor has completed a new chopstick having a plurality of holding parts for holding food.
The first configuration includes a hand-held portion composed of a pair of rod-like bodies and a plurality of sandwiching portions that are arranged along the axial direction from one end side of the hand-held portion and have a predetermined bending elasticity. It is characterized by sandwiching food in a deformed state.
The second configuration is characterized in that the clamping portion of the first configuration is converged toward the distal end side. The convergence of the sandwiching portions on the distal end side of the sandwiching portion refers to a state in which the spacing between the sandwiching portions on the distal end side is narrower than the spacing between the sandwiching portions on the root side.

According to the present invention, a food can be sandwiched with an appropriate clamping force by sandwiching the food in a state where a plurality of sandwiching portions having a predetermined bending elasticity are elastically deformed.
Therefore, it is possible to prevent the food from sliding off the chopsticks even for infants who are not familiar with chopsticks, and elderly people who have poor fingertip handling chopsticks, and who are not good at applying force to the tip of the finger. Excellent chopsticks.

  The best mode of the chopsticks of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of a chopstick in the present embodiment, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are explanatory diagrams of the chopstick in the present embodiment.

The chopsticks 1 according to this embodiment includes a hand-held portion 10 and a clamping portion 11.
The hand-held part 10 is a pair of rod-shaped bodies with a thickness that is easy to hold. From one end face of the hand-held portion 10, a plurality of sandwiching portions 11 having predetermined bending elasticity are arranged along the axial direction. The sandwiching portion 11 has a uniform thickness from the root to the tip, and the sandwiching portions 11 are arranged in a forest in a state of being separated from each other by a predetermined distance. In the chopsticks 1 of this embodiment, the ratio of the hand-held portion 10 to the clamping portion 11 is about 4: 1 to 3: 1.

The chopstick 1 having the above configuration operates as follows. First, without considering the direction of the chopsticks 1, when the chopsticks 1 are operated so as to face the food f from both sides and the food f is pinched by the pinching portions 11, the pinching force for pinching the food f is applied to the pinching portions 11. The food f is pinched in a state where each pinching portion 11 is elastically deformed so as to follow the outer shape of the food f. That is, the pinching force for pinching the food f is distributed to the respective pinching portions 11, and the pinching force (arrow a) directed toward the inside of the food f is applied.
Accordingly, when the food f having a round bar shape or a spherical shape is picked using the chopsticks 1, it acts as a force for rotating the food f or pushing the food f in the lateral direction even if the direction of gripping with the chopsticks 1 is not completely opposed. As a result, the food f is less likely to slide off the chopsticks.
Or even when picking the food f whose surface is slippery like natto, the food f becomes difficult to slip because the food is sandwiched from a plurality of directions by each clamping part 11, and as a result, the food f slips from the chopsticks. It becomes hard to fall.
[Possibility of other embodiments]
Although the number of the clamping parts 11 in this embodiment is three, the number of the clamping parts 11 is not limited to three.
Further, by concentrating the clamping parts 11 as the clamping parts 11 move toward the distal end side, it is possible to eliminate a sense of discomfort in appearance and use without reducing the function of dispersing the clamping force in each clamping part 11. . Furthermore, the clamping part 11 may carry out an appropriate anti-slip process on an outer peripheral surface. In addition, the cross-sectional area of the sandwiching portion 11 can be partially enlarged at a predetermined interval, so that the food f can be easily held while being pierced.

It is an external view of the chopsticks in a present Example. It is explanatory drawing of the chopsticks in a present Example. It is explanatory drawing of the chopsticks in a present Example.

Explanation of symbols

1 Chopstick 10 Hand-held part 11 Clamping part f Food

Claims (2)

A hand-held portion composed of a pair of rod-shaped bodies and a plurality of sandwiching portions arranged along the axial direction from one end side of the hand-held portion and having a predetermined bending elasticity, in a state where the sandwiching portion is elastically deformed. Chopsticks characterized by holding food. 2. The chopsticks according to claim 1, wherein the sandwiching portion gradually converges toward the tip side.

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