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App. No. 11/171,901

Ice cream scoop and method of use

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Patent No.
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App. No.
11/171,901
Abstract

An ice cream scoop for removing frozen to semi-frozen desserts from a container comprising a scoop portion and a handle portion. The scoop portion comprises a rim portion and a deformable portion, the deformable portion having a resilient, flexible and/or elastomeric material that allows for easy removal of frozen to semi-frozen desserts from the scoop by physically pressing on the exterior of the deformable portion. A method of use of this scoop includes scooping the dessert, inverting the scoop portion over the area desired and depressing the deformable portion to release the dessert from the scoop.

Claims (3)

1 - 10 . (canceled)

11 . A method for scooping a frozen to semi-frozen dessert from a container comprising the steps of scooping the frozen to semi-frozen dessert with an ice cream scoop having a scoop portion and a handle portion, said scoop portion comprising an interior, an exterior and having a rigid rim portion and a deformable portion, said deformable portion being formed of an elastomer and forming at least a portion of the exterior of the scoop portion, inverting the scoop portion over an area in which the frozen to semi-frozen dessert is to be placed and manually depressing the deformable portion of the exterior of the scoop portion to release said frozen to semi-frozen dessert from said scoop.

12 . The method of claim 11 wherein the elastomer of the deformable portion is an engineered thermoplastic elastomer.