Meat mallet with interchangeable tenderizing surfaces
US6997796B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 6, 2004 |
| Grant date | Feb 14, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 6, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA22C9/007
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A meat mallet for tenderizing and flattening meat with a handle, a neck and a head with interchangeable face plates. The face plates have a meat-engaging surface of varying patterns that can be flat, have outwardly projecting points of different sizes and shapes to accommodate meats having different connective tissues or other suitable tenderizing structure. The head has a partially hollow cavity that opens at a front end and stores the face plates in a nested configuration with the top-most plate being an in-use plate. The face plates have a perimeter support shoulder that facilitates the nesting configuration providing a perimeter support system while protecting the meat engaging surfaces of the face plates. A retainer ring has an inner threaded surface that threadedly engages an outer threaded surface of the front end of the head and allows the meat-engaging surface of the in-use plate to partially extend past the retainer ring to engage the subject meat.
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