James Darren Walls

US Patent:

44294352, Feb 7, 1984

Filed:

Jan 26, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/343018

Inventors:

James F. Walls - Smyrna TN

International Classification:

A47J 4328

US Classification:

17 1S

Abstract:

A meat holder for supporting a plurality of elongated strips of meat for skewering with elongated skewer sticks including a pair of opposed platens having opposed elongated meat receiving cavities with longitudinally spaced, transversely extending, opposed ribs projecting from the corresponding cavities to hold the elongated meat strips longitudinally straight within the cavities when the platens are closed. The platens are provided with an elongated stick hole for each meat strip in one end portion of the platens for receiving and guiding an elongated skewer stick, so that the skewer stick will penetrate the entire length of the central portion of the meat strip so that the stick is substantially confined within the meat strip. Preferably the ribs have cam faces opposing the stick holes for directing any misaligned skewer stick toward the center of the meat receiving cavity.