US1243239A - Dining kit. - Google Patents

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H. O. A. ALBRECHTSEN.

DINING KIT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27. IQIG.

1,243,239., Patented Oct. 16,1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

Application filed September 27, 1916. Serial No. 122,497.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS OLUF ANDREAS ALBBnoH'rsEN, of the city of Prince Albert, in the Province of Saskatchewan, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dining Kits, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in dining kits particularly to a kit especially adapted for soldiers use, although valuable for picnic and other. such purposes and the object of the invention is to provide the necessary eating equipment and construct and arrange the articles such that the smaller utensils can be stacked between a pair of plates and held tightly in stacked position so that they will not rattle, the pair of plates forming a casing inclosing the other articles of the kit.

WVith the above object in view the invention consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter de scribed and later pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view of the complete kit.

Fig. 2 a plan view.

Fig. 3 a plan view of the kit with the top plate removed. I

Fig. 4 represents a plan view of the bottom plate as it appears in Fig. 3 with the utensils removed. I

Fig. 5 represents a vertical sectional view centrally through the kit.

Fig. 6 represents a plan view of the cup and contained casters.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detailed vertical sectional view through the rim of the two plates showing the end of the handle of the fork pocketed in the bottom plate.

Fig. 8 represents an enlarged detailed vertical sectional view through the rims of the plates, the section passing through the rims at the catch.

In'the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

I have found that for ordinary purposes all that is required in an eating kit is two plates, a knife, fork and spoon, a cup and several small casters for seasoning sugar and tea and concluding this I have devised two plates so that they close together and lock to form a casing and have constructed them so that they support and hold fast the knife, spoon and fork and also receive between them the cup which contains the casters. The kit in this way has a very neat appearance, is a particularly convenient one and can be readily carried about without rattling when jarred.

Referring now to the drawings 1 represents a more or less deep metallic lower plate and 2 a somewhat shallower metallic upper plate which is adapted to be inverted on the bottom plate.

The base of the bottom plate is pressed or stamped up to provide a circular shoulder 3 which is adapted to extend within the mouth of the cup 4: which is inverted on the plate. The shoulder prevents the cup from shifting sidewise when in stacked position.

The rim of the plate 1 really comprises two parts, an upwardly inclined inner portion 1 and an outer horizontal portion 1*,

these two portions being connected by a more or less vertical neck 1.

The rim 2* of the pan 2 is contained in the horizontal plane and has the outer edge thereof rolled back on itself as shown at 2 this rolled back edge being adapted to rest on the inner portion 1 of the rim of the lower plate and with the rolled backportion butted in against the necklo.

From the above descrlption it would be apparent that between the horizontal rim of.:

the top plate and the inclined inner portion of the rim of the bottom plate I reserve a more or less V-shaped cavity.

The rim of the bottom plate at the neck is indented at one side to provide a plurality of stops 5, 6 and 7 which stops are adapted to catch and overhang the edge of the top plate when it is inserted ininverted position on the bottom plate.

At the opposite side the bottom plate carries a spring catch 8 supplied with a loop 9 the spring catch being adapted to catch in over the rim of the top plate and lock it in closed position against the bottom plate. The loop provides a convenient hand piece for releasing the spring catch and it can be also utilized for hanging up the kit if desired.

hen the two plates are locked together as just described the cup is adapted to beby the top plate while the mouth of it rests on the bottom plate and surrounds the shoulder. r

The handle of the cup is indicated by th reference numeral 4.

Within the cup I place four casters 10, 11, 12 and 13 which casters are fitted with suitable caps 14;, some of which are perforated, some of which are not.

The casters are shaped so that when brought together and inserted within the cup they fill it. Accordingly there is no rattling when they are placed in position and the cup is stored.

As a matter of convenience I have shown two of the casters with perforated tops so that they can be utilized for salt and pepper, one of them with a solid cap so it can be utilized for holding sugar and another with a perforated body and as indicated at 12 so that it can be utilized for holding tea and ifdesired for infusing the tea in the cup.

Around the cup and between the plates I locate the fork 15, the knife 16 and the spoon 17. The inclined portion 1 of the rim of the bottom plate is supplied with a number of indentations Or pockets 18 which are shaped and positioned to receive the ends of the knife, fork and spoon when rested on the rim. Actually I desire that the pockets for the ends of the knife and fork be located such that when the knife and fork are in stored position they are parallel and located at opposite sides of the cup reallytouching the sides of the cup and the pockets for the ends of the spoon be located and positioned such. that the spoon crosses at right angles the blade ofthe knife and the prongs of the fork and has the body thereof engaging the side of the cup.

,The depths of the pockets are such that ing, the ends of the knife fork and spoon which are received within the pockets and extend into the V-shaped cavity hereinbefore referred to, are jammed between the top and bottom rims of the plates.

In connection with the spoon I have found that it is desirable to insert it with the bowl thereof below the knife and the handle thereof above the fork and with the heel of the bowl resting against the cup and against the handle. This position insures the positive holding of the spoon.

WVhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a dining kit, a pair of plates releasably locked together and forming a containing casing, one of said plates having recesses in its edges, a cup inserted and jammed between the locked plates and eating utensils grouped around the cup and held within said recesses by said plates.

2. A dining kit comprising a bottomvplate and an inverted top plate having the rims thereof releasably locked together and form'- ing an inclosing casing the bottom plate having the base thereof provided with an upstanding circular shoulder, an inverted cup inserted between the locked plates and having the mouth thereof receiving the shoulder, and a knife, fork and spoon grouped around the cup and having their ends extending and resting in pockets pro vided in the rim of the bottom plate and jammed in said pockets by the rim of the top plate.

Signed at Winnipeg this 30 day of August, 1916.

HANS ANDREAS ALBRECHTSEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, .D. C.

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