Disposable tongs

Claim 1

Disposable tongs which are adapted to pick up animal excrement and are formed of a single sheet of material, such as cardboard or the like of generally rectangular shape, having a single central transversely extending straight score line and folded on said score line to form a first hinge line and form a pair of side members which are hingedly connected at said first fold hinge line, said first fold line forming a sharp pointed top fold edge with said side members being flat and extending downwardly and away from each other in opposite angular directions from said sharp pointed top fold edge hinge line, each said flat side member having a bottom edge and a transversely extending score line spaced upwardly of the bottom edge to form a second fold hinge and defining a jaw segment between said bottom edge and said second fold hinge line with each said jaw segment being inclined and sloping downwardly and inwardly at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the side member and inclined towards the opposite jaw segment, and hingeable at said second fold hinge line, each said jaw segment being flat and noncurvilinear and with each of said side members adapted to be directly manually engaged and moved towards each other so that the jaw segments may grasp and hold the material or matter to be engaged by said tongs, with said jaw segments yielding or hinging on said second hinge line as said side members are urged towards each other, one of said side members having a tongue struck out of a side thereof to engage the other side member to space the said side members from each other in normal Position, and at least one of said side members having cutouts to permit gripping engagement by the fingers of the hand.