Weird Patent of the Day
Improvement in mustache-spoons
A spoon whose shield is cut away to leave an opening that can be overlapped and underlapped by the lips, so the contents of the bowl can flow freely into the mouth when the bowl is tilted. The outer edge of the shield is turned up to keep liquid off the upper surface when the bowl is dipped.
Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov. Official PDF: USPTO patent PDF. Also at Google Patents. The drawing on this page is a reduced copy of the official figure; see the original drawing.
