EP1800570A1 - Food plate for children - Google Patents

Abstract

Food plate with exchangeable images comprises an upper plate (1) with a window (2), a lower plate, and an image carrier (4) arranged between the upper and lower plates. The upper plate is fixed on the lower plate by at least one central fixing element. At least one rotating image carrier is positioned on the fixing element so that during its rotation different images can be seen in the window. An independent claim is also included for an alternative food plate for children. Preferred Features: The fixing element consists of a pivot pin. At least one recess (8) is provided in the peripheral region for rotation of the image carrier.

Description

The invention relates to a meal plate for children with interchangeable motifs, wherein the plate consists of a top plate with viewing window, a saucer and an interchangeable, 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, a food plate 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 on the bottom of the top plate.

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 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 which passes 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 has an edge at the bottom, which engages in a recess of the saucer and the saucer has a further recess through which a motif carrier on the viewing window in the top plate is moved past, so different in the viewing window Motives appear. The motif carriers can be easily and quickly changed and be provided with different motives or also texts and poems according to the child's age.

Fig. 1

den erfindungsgemäßen Essensteller in Draufsicht,

Fig. 2

den Teller in Querschnitt entlang der Linie B-B in Fig. 1,

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den Motivträger des Essenstellers als Bildstreifen, sowie

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den Unterteller 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,

Fig. 2

the plate in cross section along the line BB in Fig. 1,

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the motif carrier of the Essenstellers as a picture strip, as well

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the saucer of the embodiment of FIG. 1 in plan view.

1 to 4 show the food plate according to the invention, wherein in Fig. 1, the viewing window 10 can be seen, through which the motif carrier 12 with the various motifs 13 can be seen. Fig. 2 shows the food tray in cross section along the line BB. The top plate 9 has at least one viewing window 10, and is via an edge 15 at the bottom in a recess 16 of the saucer 11th engaged. The saucer 11 has a recognizable in Fig. 4 recess 14, which serves to guide the strip-shaped motif carrier 12. The motif carrier can be pulled through by the child through the recess 14, whereby various motifs, comics or stories come to light. 3 shows the motif carrier 12 with different motifs 13.

The images may be pixel-like resolved, with part of the pixels on the viewing window 10 and a part on the movable motif carrier 12 and only when a cover of both fields a readable text or a recognizable motif is created.

Furthermore, it is possible to arrange parts of the motifs on the underside of the viewing window 10 fixed, which complement other parts of the motifs on the movable motif carrier 12 to form an overall motif 13.

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 (4)

Food plate for children with interchangeable motifs (13), wherein the plate consists of a top plate (9) with viewing window (10) a saucer (11) and an interposed interchangeable motif carrier (12), characterized in that the top plate (9) has an edge (15) at the lower bottom, which engages in a recess (16) of the lower plate (11) and the lower plate (11) has a further recess (14) through which a motif carrier (12) on the viewing window (10) in the upper plate (9) is movable past, so that in the viewing window (10) different motifs (13) appear. Food plate according to claim 1, characterized in that two independently movable motif carrier (12) are provided, whose motifs (13) complement each other in the viewing window (10). Food plate according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that parts of the motifs are arranged on the viewing window (10), which complement other parts of the motifs on the movable motif carriers (12) to form an overall motif (13). Food plate according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the saucer (11) is designed non-slip or at the bottom of a fastening device, for example, at least one suction cup has.

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