Patent Application
20210204744
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The disclosure relates to divider devices and more particularly pertains to a new divider device for simultaneously cooking a variety of foods in a Dutch oven.
The prior art relates to divider devices. The prior art discloses a variety of dividers that are positionable in a cooking pot for dividing an interior of the cooking pot into a plurality of compartments. The dividers generally include a plurality of walls that radiate outwardly from a center of the cooking pot. The prior art discloses a cooking pot that has a plurality of divider walls being integrated into the cooking pot to define a plurality of chambers in the cooking pot. None of the prior art disclosed claims a plurality of fluidly discrete containers that are insertable into a cooking pot.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plurality of buckets that is each insertable into a Dutch oven. The buckets define a plurality of compartments in the Dutch oven to facilitate the Dutch oven to simultaneously cook a variety of foods. A coupler is attached to a respective one of the buckets. The coupler releasably engages an adjacent one of the buckets with respect to the respective bucket for attaching the respective bucket and the adjacent bucket together.
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
As best illustrated in
Each of the buckets 12 has a bottom wall 18 and an outer wall 20 extending upwardly therefrom. The outer wall 20 has a distal edge 22 with respect to the bottom wall 18 to define an opening 24 into the buckets 12 and the outer wall 20 has a first side 26 and a second side 28. The first side 26 is concavely arcuate with respect to the second side 28 thereby facilitating the first side 26 to conform to curvature of an outer wall 29 of the Dutch oven 14. The second side 28 of the outer wall 20 of the buckets 12 abuts each other when the buckets 12 are positioned in the Dutch oven 14.
A coupler 30 is attached to respective one of the buckets 12 and the coupler 30 releasably engages an adjacent one of the buckets 12 with respect to the respective bucket 12. In this way the respective bucket 12 and the adjacent bucket 12 are attached together. The coupler 30 is positioned on the second side 28 of the outer wall 20 of the respective bucket 12. The coupler 30 comprises a leg 32 extending away from the distal edge 22 of the outer wall 20 corresponding to the second side 28. Additionally, the coupler 30 comprises a foot 34 that is spaced from and extends downwardly along the second side 28 to define a coupling space 36 between the foot 34 and the second side 28. The coupling space 36 insertably receives the distal edge 22 of the outer wall 20 corresponding to the second side 28 of the adjacent bucket 12.
In an alternative embodiment 38 as is most clearly shown in
In use, the plurality of buckets 12 is inserted into the Dutch oven 14 such that the coupler 30 engages the adjacent buckets 12. In this way a variety of food items can each be positioned in respective buckets 12 for cooking all of the food items together in the dutch over. Moreover, the buckets 12 keep the food items from mixing together while they are being cooked. In this way soups or other viscous food items can be cooked with meat, vegetables or other solid food items in the same Dutch oven 14.
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.
