1 - TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The following descriptive report to the present invention application refers to the development of a constructive form applied in a set of silverware (Metal eating and serving utensils), particularly referring to the differential constructive form to which such silverware were given, in such a way that, the same can be supported over themselves over the table, notwithstanding avoiding the physical contact over the own table of the blade of the knife, the ladle of the spoon and the prongs of the fork, as if they had into themselves an inlaid support.

2 - STATE OF THE ART

An important accessory to the silverware are the so called rests, where there is any piece of any material, we have rests made of noble material such as gold or silver. The aim of the silverware rests is to keep order on the table while serving and avoiding that the extremities, prongs, cutting blades and ladle, from forks, knives and spoons, respectively, touch the surface of the table (tablecloth, American sets, etc.).

In searches performed in the respective state of the art, particularly in the classes A47J

43/28, there were several documents found involving silverware and correlates. Among the most significant ones, these were appointed:

- MU 6.601.679 refers to a metal stem of preferably round section, which is bent in a way to form, a pair of round handles (1) parallel and opposite enough among

themselves, similar to a "clip" or fastener to be applied under certain pressure against the edge of the recipients, having one of these handles (1) segments (2) and (3) bent orthogonally in the form of steps from which they are supported over the edge of the recipients and presenting superiorly vertical segments (5), which are united by a shaft with undulations or hunchbacks (6) among which depressions are formed (7) to serve as rests to the handle of the silverware.

- MU 8.301980, refers to the constructive disposition in table silverware rests composed by the proceeding of integration of two triangular boards, enabling any geometric figure to provide the device stay still and do not roll over the table, provided with holes placed in the central region next to the superior part which are lodged a cylindrical bar that might be welded or fixed under pressure that enables the silverware rests in such a way that such silverware rests might be produced in stainless steel, silver, tin, brass, copper, plastic, gold, acrylic, wood, aluminum, glass or any combination of them among themselves.

As we can see, silverware is made in the most varied shapes, dimensions, combinations of material, colors, etc., but, however, concerning to the case, all of the are rested directly on the surface of the table, tablecloth or likewise. In order to avoid this situation, rests to the silverware were created in a large variety of shapes and materials, where the silverware is supported in order to avoid contact with the table and in order to organize it.

3 - SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Thus, due to the consideration pertaining to the state-of-the-art previously explained, it is the aim of this invention, the development of a constructive shape applied in a set of silverware, where the shape of the silverware were completely modified in order to make them raise over the surface which it is supported, in a way that the prongs of the fork, the ladle of the spoon and the blade of the knife never touch the table, the tablecloth or similar. This type of construction is particularly interesting because:

- discontinue the use of any sort of silverware rests, once the silverware itself is shaped, in a geometric form, discontinuing such a device.

- the applied form to the silverware is completely new opposing to the traditional vision given to cutlery, where only the silverware is equipped with design, once its function is already previously established.

- In modifying the geometric shape of the silverware, the silverware itself is able to keep a distance from the table, as if it had a rest inlaid in it.

4 - DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The characterization of the present document to patents of invention now proposed is done through the representative drawings of the constructive form applied to the silverware set, in such a way that the cutlery articles can be thoroughly produced by using the adequate technique, allowing the perfect functionality of the product herewith applied.

From the elaborated figures, that express the best shape or preferred form to accomplished the claimed product herewith idealized, we base the descriptive part of this descriptive report, through a detailed and consecutive numbering, where all the

aspects are clarified what might not be understood by the representation adopted, in a way to clearly determinate the protection here required.

These figures are merely illustrative, and can present variations, as far as not escaping from the originally claimed.

FIGURE 1 — illustrates the representation in perspective of a proposed set of silverware, portraying the constructive modification applied in each of these individual elements, in a way to form a line of these objects, and:

FIGURE 2 — illustrates an orthogonal front representation of the set of silverware, where are placed a continuous line representing any support surface, such as a table, in a way to show how the geometric changes actuate.

5 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED FORM OF ACCOMPLISHING THE PRESENT INVENTION.

The proposed invention comprehends a set of silverware in such a way they are built, that they are supported on themselves at a certain height of a surface where they are placed, in such a way that the prongs of the fork (1), the ladle of the spoon (2) and the blade of the knife (3) do not touch such this surface (4) that might be, for instance, a table or any sort of furniture.

In order to accomplish this function, the set of silverware has its construction geometry modified, in such a way that a it was produced in the handle (5) of the fork (1) and in the handle (6) of the spoon (2), a hard bend and almost scissored (7) forming a point of

support (8) where the fork is sustained to keep it in a certain height (9) of the surface of the table (4).

The knife (12) is aimed with another geometry in relation to the spoon and to the fork, nonetheless keep the same inventive unit, through the formation of a support (10) produced in the thickening (11) that separates the handle (13) of the blade (3), producing, derived from this geometric disposition of a long cut in half-moon (14) that starts in the support (10) and ends in the part of the blade of the knife , where, without this cut, the uniformity of the design would be lost, generating an opposition between the blade and the support.