EP1526794B1 - Food plate for children - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a food plate for children with interchangeable motifs, wherein the plate consists of a top plate with window, a saucer and an interposed, interchangeable motif carrier.

Food plates with motifs are known to encourage and motivate the child to eat. A disadvantage for many of the well-known food dishes is the fact that attached to the plate surface motif is unsightly and destroyed by the eating activity with the cutlery.

From the US 2,861,367 A is known in this context, his food plates for children, which consists of a cup-shaped plastic plate with a window in the bottom area. The food dish has on the outer circumference on three feet, which have half a height on the inside of a slot. In the slots of the three feet a circular motif carrier is guided, which is mounted on a central pin on the underside of the bottom of the plastic plate. On the motif carrier are different motifs, which can be viewed through the viewing window in the plastic plate.

Furthermore, it is from the US 2,514,094 A known to provide at a food plate for children a water-fillable bowl as a saucer, which rotatably fixed on side edges on the inner edge of a top plate with corresponding continuations on the outer edge. The top plate has a continuous central opening, through which the saucer can be filled with water for tempering the food. Through the central opening of the upper plate protrudes a tubular rotary member at the lower end of a motif support is fixed. The upper end of the tubular rotary member is closed with a plug which has a knob projecting over the plate surface. About this knob the motif carrier can be moved so that its individual motifs appear in the viewing windows at the bottom of the top.

From the FR-A-1 030 091 is a device for awarding various objects with different numbers, or signs are known, which are located on two mutually rotatable discs and can be viewed through an opening of a cup-shaped disc. The device would not be suitable to be used as a dinner plate, since the food could escape through the opening in the cup-shaped disk. The individual rotatable parts of the device are connected by a central screw passing through the cup-shaped disc. When used as a dinner plate in the Area of the screw sealing problems occur, further, the screw head would interfere in the center of a dining table.

From the US-A-2,485,922 is a children's plate known, which is used in a warming device. On the bottom side of the children's plate, a film strip rolled up on two bobbins can be moved past in translation, wherein a rotary knob passed through the warming device must be actuated to move the film strip. The device is constructed relatively complicated, disadvantageously, the motif carrier can not be easily replaced.

The above-described known meal plates for children are relatively complicated and can be dismantled only with great effort to clean the food plate or replace the motif carrier.

Object of the present invention is to propose a simple solution to the problem, starting from the Essenstellern for children described above, the food dish is easy to clean and the subject carrier should be easily replaced.

This object is achieved in that the top plate is fixed with at least one central fastener on the saucer on which fastener at least one rotatable Mbtivträger is mounted, so that when it rotates in the viewing window different motifs appear, the central fastener from a stored in the saucer Trunnion is made so that the top plate is removable with a handle, the pivot pin is pulled out of the corresponding opening in the saucer.

In the present invention, thus, the top plate can be cleaned in a simple manner. Furthermore, the then exposed motif carrier can be removed and replaced with a motif carrier with other motifs. According to the invention, at least one recess can be provided in the peripheral area for rotating the at least one motif carrier. The motif carriers can be provided with different motifs or even texts and poems according to the child's age.

Fig. 1

den erfindungsgemäßen Essensteller in Draufsicht,

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einen Querschnitt entlang der Linie A-A in Fig. 1, sowie

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den Motivträger der Ausführung gemäß Fig. 1 in Draufsicht.

The invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the drawings. Show it

Fig. 1

the food plate according to the invention in plan view,

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a cross section along the line AA in Fig. 1 , such as

Fig. 3

the motif carrier of the embodiment according to Fig. 1 in plan view.

The variant is in the FIGS. 1 to 3 shown. The top plate 1 is fixed with a central fastening element, for example a pivot pin 7 in the saucer 3. Below is an interchangeable motif carrier 4, which is mounted on the pivot pin 7. On the motif carrier 4 different motifs 5, lines of text or comics or stories are printed. With the help of the recess 8 on the outer edge of the top plate 1, the motif carrier 4 can be rotated. As a result, through the viewing window 2 in the top plate 1 different motifs 5 can be seen, through which the child is excited to eat. It is also possible to provide two independently rotatable motif carrier whose motifs 5 complement each other only in the viewing window 2.

Furthermore, it is possible to arrange parts of the motifs on the underside of the viewing window 2, which complement each other with other parts of the motifs on the movable motif carrier 4 to form an overall motif 5. For example, the images may be pixelated, with a portion of the pixels at the viewing window and a portion at the movable motif carrier 4, i. only when the two partial images are covered does the motif become recognizable.

Fig. 2 shows the children's food meter according to the invention in the cross section of the line AA in Fig. 1 , The top plate 1 is mounted with the pivot 7 in the saucer. In between is the motif carrier 4. Fig. 3 shows the interchangeable motif carrier 4 with motifs 5 and a rotary opening 6, which is penetrated by the pin 7.

The saucer 3 can be made non-slip or at the bottom of a fastening device, for example, at least one suction cup, have.

Claims (5)

1. Serving dish for children featuring exchangeable pictures (5), which comprises an upper dish (1) with a transparent window (2), a lower dish (3), and an exchangeable picture carrier (4) situated in between, characterised in that the upper dish (1) is fastened to the lower dish (3) with at least one central fastening element bearing at least one rotatable picture carrier (4) such that different pictures (5) are displayed in the window (2) upon rotation of the picture carrier (4), said central fastening element consisting of an axle pin (7) borne in the lower dish (3), thus permitting the upper dish to be easily removed by extracting the axle pin from the corresponding opening in the lower dish.
2. Serving dish according to claim 1, characterised in that at least one recess (8) is provided along the circumference of the upper dish (1) for turning the at least one picture carrier (4).
3. Serving dish according to any of claims 1 to 2, characterised in that two independently movable picture carriers (4) are provided whose pictures (5) complement each other in the transparent window (2).
4. Serving dish according to any of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that parts of the pictures are attached to the transparent window (2), which will be complemented by other parts of the pictures on the movable picture carriers (4) to form one complete picture (5).
5. Serving dish according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the lower dish (3) is configured so as to be non-slipping, or has a fastening means on its bottom, such as a suction cup.

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