JP3183927U - tray - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a tray on which dishes and drinks can be put together, and chopsticks and drinks can be alternately held with one free hand.
A food storage part, 2a ... is formed by sinking at least one place on the upper surface of the plate material 1, and a part of a portion different from the food storage part 2, 2a ... on the upper surface of the plate material 1 is formed. Is formed by recessing a portion of the upper surface of the plate 1 different from the food storage portions 2, 2a, and the beverage storage portion 3 to form the thumb resting portion 4. The thumb placement portion 4 has a shape that is longer in the inner direction than the side edge portion of the plate 1. If you place your thumb on the thumb rest 4 and pick it with the bent index finger on the back side, hold the food in the food container 2, 2a ... and hold the drink in the drink container 3 with one hand. Is possible. The thumb is placed on the recessed thumb placement portion 4 and is not easily displaced and is easy to hold.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a tray for carrying a desired food and drink at the same time when eating and drinking without sitting at a table and staying at a fixed place, such as outside eating and drinking and standing parties.

  Conventionally, when eating and drinking or standing at a party in the outdoors, hold the drink in the container with your dominant hand, hold the cooking plate with the other hand, and remove chopsticks, forks, etc. (hereinafter referred to as chopsticks, etc.). It will move while placed on a plate.

  In addition, there is a so-called “lunch tray” that can serve a plurality of dishes separately, which is formed by forming a plurality of accommodating portions by appropriately depressing a plurality of places on the upper surface to accommodate a predetermined position. All dishes, tableware, etc. can be placed together in the department, but this is based on the premise that the person sits at the table and eats.

  However, in the case of the above-mentioned prior art, in the former case, both hands are blocked when moving, so it is impossible to deal with an emergency, and when you eat a dish, put your drink in another place and release your hand. In the latter case, there was a problem that had to be solved, such as being unable to handle eating and drinking while moving.

  The present invention is based on the above-mentioned prior art, and in consideration of the problem that dishes and drinks cannot be carried together with one hand on a dish and cannot be eaten without a table on a lunch tray, at least one place on the upper surface of the plate material To form a food container with a lower surface bulging downward, and a portion of the upper surface of the plate member different from the food container is depressed to form a beverage container with a lower surface bulging downward. A portion of the upper surface of the plate material different from the food storage portion and the beverage storage portion is depressed to form a thumb placement portion whose lower surface bulges downward, and the thumb placement portion is formed of the plate material. By making the shape long inward from the side edge of the food, it is possible to put at least food and drink together, make it easy to hold with one hand and hold chopsticks etc. with free one hand, or change to drink Solve the above problems.

  In short, the present invention forms a food containing portion in which at least one portion of the upper surface of the plate material is depressed and the lower surface bulges downward, and a part of the portion different from the food accommodating portion on the upper surface of the plate material is depressed. A lower portion of the upper surface of the plate member is formed in a portion different from the food storage portion and the beverage storage portion; And the thumb placement part is longer in the inner side than the side edge part of the plate material, so that drinks and dishes can be placed and moved together, and there is no table even if there is no table If you hold the thumb on the thumb resting part and hold it with the bent index finger on the back side, it will lightly collide with something while moving However, the risk of removal is extremely low. It can be.

  If it is a container such as a tall tumbler or coblet, it is easy to fall down simply by placing it in the beverage container, but since a through hole was formed in the center of the bottom of the beverage container, in the case of a tumbler, the through hole If it is inserted from above and the intermediate part is hooked, it can be set in a stable state, and in the plate material and the drink housing part, from the side edge part of the plate material to the through hole of the drink container part Since the leading slit is provided, if the stem portion of the coblet is moved to the through-hole through the slit, it can be set in a stable state, and therefore it can be moved without worrying about falling.

  A plurality of the food storage portions are formed, and a part of a portion between the pair of adjacent food storage portions on the upper surface of the plate member is depressed across the pair of adjacent food storage portions, and the lower surface is expanded downward. Since the chopstick rest is formed and the chopstick rest is shallower than the food storage portion, if the tip side of the chopsticks is placed on the chopstick rest, it is possible to suppress the positional deviation due to shaking during movement, so that the fall prevention Its practical effects such as being able to move without concern are enormous.

It is a top view of the tray which concerns on this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG. It is CC sectional drawing of FIG. It is a perspective view of the tray of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the state which mounted the coblet on the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG. It is principal part sectional drawing which shows the mounting process of the coblet to the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the state which mounted the can drink in the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the state which mounted the mug in the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the state which mounted the tumbler in the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the state which mounted the stepped old type glass in the drink mounting part of the tray of FIG.

  The tray according to the present invention basically forms a food containing portion 2 (, 2a...) Whose bottom surface is swollen downward by sinking at least one portion of the top surface of the plate material 1, and A portion of the portion different from the food storage portion 2 (, 2a...) Is depressed to form a drink storage portion 3 whose lower surface bulges downward, the food storage portion 2 (, 2a...) On the upper surface of the plate 1 and A portion of the portion different from the drink storage portion 3 is depressed to form a thumb placement portion 4 whose lower surface bulges downward. The thumb placement portion 4 is longer in the inner direction than the side edge portion of the plate 1. It has a shape.

  Hereinafter, the tray according to the present invention will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 1, the tray according to the present invention is a horizontally long rectangular plate 1 having a size of about B5 (182 mm × 257 mm) and two large and small food containers 2. , 2a, one beverage container 3, and one thumb rest 4.

  Both food storage parts 2 and 2a are rectangular dishes, the large food storage part 2 is formed to occupy substantially the whole of one side (right side in FIG. 1) of the plate material 1, and the small food storage part 2a is a plate material. 1 is formed in such a size as to occupy substantially the whole of one side (the hand side and the front side in the use state) of the other side (the hand side in the use state on the left side in FIG. 1).

  The beverage container 3 is generally cylindrical and deeper than the food containers 2, 2a, is formed in a partition space on the other half of the other side of the plate 1 (on the hand side and the back side in use), and is positioned below the plate 1 A circumferential wall 3a and a bottom portion 3b, and a through hole 5 is formed in the center of the bottom portion 3b. Thus, the bottom portion 3b is formed in a bowl shape around the inner circumferential lower portion of the circumferential wall 3a. A slit 6 is provided in the circumferential wall 3a and the bottom 3b of the beverage container 3 from the side edge of the plate 1 (the long side edge on the back side in use) to the through hole 5 of the beverage container 2.

  The bottom 3b has a tapered outer peripheral part, a cylindrical inner peripheral part continuously formed on the outer peripheral part, and a flange-like part integrally formed on the lower end inner peripheral part of the inner peripheral part, The inner portion of the bowl-shaped portion is a through-hole 5, which can cope to some extent with the size of the diameter of the ground contact portion to the bottom 3b of the beverage container, and prevents the beverage in the mounted state from being displaced.

  The thumb rest 4 is between the small food container 2a and the beverage container 3 on the center line of the plate 1 from the other side edge of the plate 1 (the short edge on the hand side in use). The thumb contact surface is a shallow concave curved surface that is curved downward in the width direction as a whole, and is not burdened on the thumb. It is designed to become familiar with the tip of the thumb as a concave curved surface that becomes shallower.

  In the area between the two food storage units 2 and 2a on the upper surface of the board 1, the lower surface is lowered on the center line of the small food storage unit 2a so as to straddle the two food storage units 2 and 2a. A swelled chopstick rest 7 is formed, the width of the chopstick rest 7 is narrower than that of the small food storage portion 2a, and the depth is shallower than both of the food storage portions 2 and 2a.

  Hemispherical legs 8, 8a, 8b are integrally formed on the lower surface of the outer two corners of the large food container 2 and the lower surface of the outer corner of the small food container 2a, and the legs 8, 8a, 8b and Even if the lowermost ends of the beverage storage part 3 are aligned and placed on a flat surface such as the upper surface of the table, for example, the legs 8, 8a, 8b and the beverage storage part 3 are all grounded.

The tray according to the present invention is preferably a plastic injection-molded product, but may be a metal press-molded product or other material and method.
Further, the shape and size of the plate material 1 are not limited to a rectangle of about B5 size (182 mm × 257 mm), but may be other polygonal shapes, perfect circles / elliptical shapes, and other shapes, and the size may be one hand. What is necessary is just to be able to carry easily and to be able to place dishes and drinks.

Next, the operation of the tray according to the present invention will be described.
Hold the tray according to the present invention with the hand opposite to the dominant hand with the thumb placed on the thumb rest 4 with the bent index finger on the back side, and the desired dishes are appropriately placed in the food storage units 2 and 2a. When placing a desired drink in the drink container 3 and eating a dish, hold the chopsticks, etc., placed on the tray with your free hand, and when drinking, place the chopsticks etc. on the tray. It is possible to hold a drink with a dominant hand that has been placed freely, and when placing chopsticks or the like on the tray, placing the tip side on the chopstick rest 7 makes it difficult to drop during movement.

  When placing a desired beverage in the beverage storage unit 3, if the beverage container is a can or a mug, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the beverage is placed on the bottom 3b and gradually expanded in diameter upward. In the case of a glass or paper / plastic cup with a tumbler shape or a stepped portion in the middle part, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the glass is inserted into the through hole 5 from above, and various glasses in the form of coblets are As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, after the stem portion is moved to the through hole 5 through the slit 6, the cup portion is placed on the bottom portion 3b.

  The tray shown is for right-handed use, and if left-handed is used as it is, the drink must be placed on the front side and chopsticks etc. on the back side, making it a little difficult to handle, but it is within the allowable range. Therefore, it is preferable that the illustrated tray is a left-handed one that is symmetrical, but there is no problem even if it is not provided.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Board | plate material 2, 2a ... Food storage part 3 Drink storage part 4 Thumb mounting part 5 Through-hole 6 Slit 7 Chopstick rest part

Claims (4)

  At least one portion of the upper surface of the plate material is depressed to form a food containing portion whose lower surface bulges downward, and a portion of the upper surface of the plate material that is different from the food containing portion is depressed, and the lower surface is Forming a beverage container that bulges downward, sinks a portion of the upper surface of the plate that is different from the food container and the beverage container, and forms a thumb placement part whose lower surface bulges downward; The tray is characterized in that the thumb placement portion has a shape that is longer inward than the side edge portion of the plate material.   The tray according to claim 1, wherein a through hole is formed in the center of the bottom of the beverage container.   The tray according to claim 2, wherein the plate material and the beverage container are provided with slits extending from a side edge of the plate material to a through hole of the beverage container.   A plurality of the food storage portions are formed, and a part of a portion between the pair of adjacent food storage portions on the upper surface of the plate member is depressed across the pair of adjacent food storage portions, and the lower surface is expanded downward. 4. The tray according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein an extended chopstick rest is formed and the chopstick rest is shallower than the food container.

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