BE896938A - Moulded plastic multicompartment dish for measuring food ingredient - in correct proportions for mixing food prod. e.g. for single or two-person helping - Google Patents

Abstract

For a given food prod. the dish has the same number of compartments as the prod. has ingredients. The vol. of each compartment is directly proportional to the amt. of corresp. ingredients in the final prod. mixt. The dish is pref. made of clear transparent plastic which is marked with a common, horizontal graduation line through all compartments for single helping two-person helping etc. The dish is pref. externally flanged at the top to clip to another.

Description

       

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PROPORTIONAL MEASURERS FOR COMPOUND FOODS.

  
To mix, prepare or cook foods made up of several ingredients, it is often difficult, tedious, and subject to confusion, to measure or weigh the different ingredients in the exact proportions required.

  
Also, when you want to change the size of a portion, it is not easy to determine the new quantities of the different ingredients.

  
The purpose of the present invention is to provide

  
a combined measurer for the different ingredients of a food, so that the different ingredients are and remain automatically in proportion.

  
Another aim is to provide means so that the meter can possibly be used by the user.

  
for other useful purposes. after the main use for which

  
he is destined.

  
To achieve these goals, there is essentially a combined meter of several compartments whose volume sections are already in proportion corresponding to the determined proportions of each ingredient making up a combined food, so that their level line is common.

  
A fastening system is provided so that the meters can be optionally assembled to form, after

  
main use, a multi-compartment locker, for general use.

  
In order to clearly understand the invention, the following non-limiting examples will be described:

  
In FIG. I, we represented in I, a keyboard

  
in transparent plastic, thermoformed to form 3 compartments 2-3-4 whose volume section is in proportion to 3 ingredients'A-B-C which make up, for example, a food to be mixed and cooked.

  
Because the compartments are made in

  
the proportions required for the different ingredients, a level 5 line may be common and indicates, for example,

  
the quantities necessary for a preparation for 2 people.

  
If you want to make the same food for I person only, it is enough to take the common reference line 6 to know the necessary quantity of the different ingredients, in the same proportions.

  
We can therefore multiply or divide the portions

  
or fraction of portions and always stay in proportion.

  
FIG. 2 gives an example of a measure for cooking rice with the proportional amount of exact water required.

  
A part 7 is thermoformed so as to produce

  
a cup 8 for measuring rice, and a cup 9

  
intended to measure the quantity of water.

  
The common level line 10 allows you to determine the exact quantities required for 6 people, and you can change the Quantities as long as you always keep the same line

  
level for both buckets.

  
The common level line 15 indicates for example

  
the quantities of ingredients necessary for 2 people.

  
In edge II we can make a fastening system, for example, lugs 12 and notches 13 so

  
that the measures can, after the use for which they were designed, be nested to form a locker

  
multipurpose, for example for storing cutlery or kitchen utensils.

  
The progressive modular construction of the locker brings an additional commercial advantage by its desire to complete a locker and thereby intensifies consumer loyalty to the same brand.

CLAIMS

  
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ingredients, characterized in that means are provided for making a meter with several compartments, the individual volumes of which are in proportions corresponding to the proportions determined for each ingredient so as to have a common level line, possible means are provided to allow to assemble several meters in one unit.


    

Claims (1)

2 - According to claim I, characterized in that the means provided for producing a measurer with several compartments, the individual volumes of which are in proportions corresponding to the proportions determined for each ingredient, either a piece of formed or thermoformed plastic. 3 - According to claims 1-2, characterized in that the means provided for making it possible to assemble several measurements into a unit, consist of a fastening system forming an integral part of the molding or of the thermoforming of the measurer. 4 - According to claims 1-2-3, characterized in that a flat edge is provided on the periphery of the measurer. 5 - According to claims 1-2-3-4. characterized in that the attachment system is produced by tabs and notches, molded or formed directly in the material constituting the periphery of the measurer.