Abstract A pie top cutter guide plate that is a simple and foolproof device enabling its user to produce a quality lattice pie top crust with little effort and minimum instruction. A continuing series of alternately arranged slots spaced equidistant apart on a flat plate that when placed on a piece of rolled pie dough and scored in each slot by the user with a sharp object and subsequently pulled apart from the ends perpendicular to the slots forms a lattice pie top crust. It is affordable to all, has no moving parts or sharp cutting edges, is easily cleaned and handily stored. Its basic simplicity was tailored to fit the one pie at a time maker in their own kitchen and not for the professional pie baker. However, the artistic results are professional in every aspect and will enhance the gourmet ability of the cooks in their preparation of a specialty item for the dining table.
Inventors
👤 Ralph M. Bartos
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-02 22:02
CPC Classifications
A; A21; A21C; A21C11/00; A21C11/12
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
132 words
A cutting guide plate for cutting dough to form a lattice pie top crust, said guide plate comprising: a flat plate made from any suitable material and of adequate thickness with sufficient length and width to cover the piecrust dough a plurality of rows of elongated slots disposed in said plate, the slots in each of said rows being separated at their end or ends by predetermined equally spaced intervals so aligned alternately and equidistant apart such that no spaced interval is aligned directly above or below like spaced intervals in the immediately preceeding and succeeding rows, whereby the dough can be cut in such a manner that when subsequently stretched and applied to a pie will constitute a continuing series of obtuse and acute angles forming said lattice pie top crust.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
132 words
A cutting guide plate for cutting dough to form a lattice pie top crust, said guide plate comprising: a flat plate made from any suitable material and of adequate thickness with sufficient length and width to cover the piecrust dough a plurality of rows of elongated slots disposed in said plate, the slots in each of said rows being separated at their end or ends by predetermined equally spaced intervals so aligned alternately and equidistant apart such that no spaced interval is aligned directly above or below like spaced intervals in the immediately preceeding and succeeding rows, whereby the dough can be cut in such a manner that when subsequently stretched and applied to a pie will constitute a continuing series of obtuse and acute angles forming said lattice pie top crust.