Breaking device for frozen confectionary

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A ONE-PIECE MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC DEVICE FOR BREAKING A FROZEN CONFECTTION ALONG A SEPARATION GROOVE DEFINED BY A PORTION OF REDUCED SECTION THEREIN COMPRISING: A BASE PLATE HAVING UPPER AND LOWER BASE PLATE SURFACES AND BOUNDARY EDGES; A PANEL MEMBER HAVING BOUNDARY EDGES; A FIRST INTEGRAL PLASTIC HINGE STRIP FLEXIBLY JOINING SAID PANEL MEMBER AND SAID BASE PLATE TOGETHER ALONG A PORTION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE BOUNDARY EDGES; SAID FIRST HINGE STRIP BEING OF REDUCED SECTION RELATIVE TO SAID BASE PLATE AND PANEL MEMBER; A PRESSURE PLATE HAVING UPPER AND LOWER PRESSURE PLATE SURFACES AND BOUNDARY EDGES; A SECOND INTEGRAL PLASTIC HINGE STRIP FLEXIBLY JOINING SAID PANEL MEMBER AND SAID PRESSURE PLATE TOGETHER ALONG A PORTION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EDGES; SAID SECOND HINGE STRIP BEING OF REDUCED SECTION RELATIVE TO SAID PRESSURE PLATE AND SAID PANEL MEMBER; SAID FIRST AND SECOND HINGE STRIPS ORIENTING AND LOCATING SAID PRESSURE PLATE IN OVERLAYING SPACED APART RELATION ABOVE SAID BASE PLATE FOR MOVEMENT OF SAID PLATES TOWARD AND AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER FOR CLAMPING ENGAGEMENTT OF A CONFECTION PLACED THEREBETWEEN; A STRAIGHT ELONGATED RIB SYMMETRICALLY LOCATED ON THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID BASE PLATE WITHIN SAID BOUNDARY EDGES THEREOF AND PROJECTING SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY UPWARDLY FROM SAID SURFACE TOWARD SAID PRESSURE PLATE A DISTANCE GREATER THAN THE DEPTH OF THE SEPARATION GROOVE IN SAID CONFECTION TO SEAT WITHIN A PORTION AT LEAST OF SAID GROOVE AND SPACE SAID CONNFECTION ABOVE SAID BASE PLATE WHEN SAID CONFECTION IS INSERTED BETWEEN SAID PLATES AND DEFINING MOVEMENT SPACES ON EACH SIDE OF SAID RIB FOR RECEPTION OF PORTIONS OF SAID BROKEN CONFECTION; AND A PLURALITY OF SPACED APART PARALLEL RIBS ON THE SURFACE OF SAID PRESSURE PLATE PARALLEL AND IN OPPOSITION TO SAID RIB ON SAID BASE PLATE, SAID RIBS ON SAID PRESSURE PLATE PROJECTING SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY DOWNWARDLY THEREFROM TO PROVIDE A GROUP OF MEMBERS GRIPPING SAID CONFECTION WHEN CLAMPED BETWEEN SAID PLATES AS AFORESAID AND REGISTERING IN SAID SEPARATION GROOVE THEREOF.