Compostable cutlery utensils made by forming a pliable composite sheet having an internal substrate of overlaying food-grade paper sheets of collective number and thickness suitable for making a required item of cutlery, the internal paper sheets each being coated with a settable food-grade adhesive substance, such as by being dipped into a bath of liquid glue, applying an outer covering of food-grade paper to each major external side of the substrate to form a pliable composite sheet, thereafter forming the shape of the utensil, such as by the use of a two-part mould in the collective shape and size of the required utensil, removing, such as by cutting, the formed utensil from the composite sheet before the adhesive has set, and thereafter allowing or causing the adhesive substance to set to thereby produce a rigid compostable cutlery utensil.
Claim CLM-00001. 1. A method of making compostable cutlery utensils (4, 10), the method including the steps, in any convenient order, of forming a pliable composite sheet (13) comprised of an internal substrate of overlaying food-grade paper sheets (7) of collective number and thickness suitable for making a required item of cutlery, the internal paper sheets (7) each being coated with a settable food-grade adhesive substance, such as by being dipped into a bath of liquid glue, applying an outer covering (8, 9) of food-grade paper to each major external side of the substrate to form a pliable composite sheet, thereafter forming the shape of the utensil, such as by the use of a two-part mould (17, 18) in the collective shape and size of the required utensil, removing, such as by cutting, the formed utensil from the composite sheet before the adhesive has set, and thereafter allowing or causing the adhesive substance to set to thereby produce a rigid compostable cutlery utensil (4, 10).
