Patent Application
20220408953
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The disclosure relates to charcuterie devices and more particularly pertains to a new charcuterie device for serving charcuterie. The device includes a charcuterie pan with a plurality of compartments that is each labeled to identify which food items related to charcuterie are to be placed in each compartment.
The prior art relates to charcuterie devices including tableware that has questions printed thereon for stimulating dinner conversation. The prior art discloses a place setting that includes nestable utensils. The prior art discloses a food tray that has a plurality of compartments integrated into the food tray that are shaped to resemble various food shapes. The prior art discloses a food serving tray that has compartments which are strategically sized to hold recommended food portion sizes. The prior art discloses a variety of cutting boards that are each structured to have the ornamental appearance of a novelty item.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a charcuterie pan that has a plurality of compartments each integrated into the charcuterie pan to contain a respective food item associated with charcuterie. The charcuterie pan is structured to have the ornamental appearance of a novelty shape. Additionally, indicia are printed thereon on the charcuterie pan and the indicia are positioned in each of the compartments for identifying the food item to be positioned in each compartment. A plurality of feet is each coupled to the charcuterie pan to support the charcuterie pan over a support surface.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The charcuterie pan 12 has a bottom wall 16 and a perimeter wall 18 extending upwardly from the bottom wall 16. The perimeter wall 18 follows predetermined curves and angles for facilitating the charcuterie pan 12 to have the ornamental appearance of the novelty shape. The charcuterie pan 12 has a plurality of dividers 20 each extending upwardly from a top surface 22 of the bottom wall 16. The dividers 20 intersect each other and the perimeter wall 18 to define the plurality of compartments 14 in the charcuterie pan 12.
The top surface 22 of the bottom wall 16 has indicia 24 printed thereon and the indicia 24 comprise a plurality of words 26 comprising the name of food item 15s. Each of the words 26 is positioned within a respective one of the compartments 14 to identify the food item 15 that is to be placed in each of the compartments 14. The words 26 might include “crackers”, “cheese curds”, “meat 1”, “meat 2”, “jam/jelly”, “fruit 1”, “fruit 2”, “nut 1”, and “nut 2”. Additionally, the words 26 might be arranged in the charcuterie pan 12 according to recommendations of professional chefs in order to facilitate the best possible arrangement of the food item 15s for charcuterie.
A plurality of feet 28 is provided and each of the feet 28 is coupled to the charcuterie pan 12 to support the charcuterie pan 12 over a support surface. Each of the feet 28 is positioned on a bottom surface of sad bottom wall 16. The feet 28 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed over the bottom wall 16. Additionally, each of the feet 28 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material, such as rubber or the like, to grip the support surface.
In use, the food items 15 are placed into compartments 14 according to the labeling of each compartment. In this way the food items 15 can be presented in an appealing and functional manner for charcuterie. Additionally, the shape of the charcuterie pan 12 enhances the overall experience of consuming the food items 15 in the charcuterie pan 12. The charcuterie pan 12 can be washed in the traditional convention of washing pots or pans.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
