Patent Application
20220061363
Purposes of cleaning agents include health, beauty, removing offensive odor, and avoiding the spread of dirt and contaminants to oneself and others. Some cleaning agents can kill bacteria (e.g. door handle bacteria, as well as bacteria on worktops and other metallic surfaces) and clean at the same time. Others, called degreasers, contain organic solvents to help dissolve oils and fats. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
Cooking fatty meats cause the grease to separate from the meat. This grease can be difficult to clean by regular methods due to oil's hydrophobic properties. Draining or removing said grease can decrease the calorie count of the meat being cooked. Thus it is sometimes desired to have it removed. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
There accordingly exists a need for a degreasing absorbant that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The invention is a pouch made of all-natural fabric, including hemp fiber which contains loose plant-based absorbant capable of absorbing grease through the confines of the bag. The bag is sealed by sewn edges and an optional draw string edge to keep the loose absorbant contained but replaceable upon use. Attached to the main body of the bag is a draw string tether that connects the small paper tag with the invention's name printed. The whole product is biodegradable and can suitably be disposed of after use. The whole product is hydrophobic and has a flash point higher than typical cooking temperatures of 450 degrees Fahrenheit and is also therefore inserted into cooking food.
A disclosed absorbant pouch device includes an outer pouch having a draw string opening, the pouch comprising a material having a predefined molecular porosity. The device also includes an organic absorbant in the pouch configured to molecularly bond with a grease molecule entering through the molecular porosity of the pouch, wherein a combined size of the grease molecule bonded with the organic absorbant is larger than the molecular porosity of the pouch material. Embodiments of the absorbant pouch device include a draw string configured to seal off an open end of the pouch and a tether from the pouch to a label attached thereto.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
Throughout the present disclosure the term ‘molecular porosity’ is used to refer to a measure of the molecular void spaces in a material which will pass a molecule of a predetermined size. The term ‘absorbant,’ is a noun and refers to an absorbing compound for fats, oils and greases (FOG). The term ‘orthogonally shredded,’ refers to a first shredding parallel with a lateral side and a second shredding at right angles to the first shredding to produce square or rectangular sheets or cubes of material.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
