Patent Application
20230097174
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The disclosure relates to food tray devices and more particularly pertains to a new food tray device for supporting a dinner plate on a user's lap. The device includes a saucer with a dinner plate indentation and a cushion that is attached to the saucer. The cushion conforms to the contours of a user's lap when the cushion is positioned on the user's lap. In this way saucer can support a dinner plate to facilitate the dinner plate to be retained in a horizontal orientation on the user's lap.
The prior art relates to food tray devices including a variety of lap tray devices which each has a bean bag attached to a bottom side of a lap tray. The prior art discloses a tray that includes a bean bag for positioning the tray on a lap and a cup holder that is removably integrated into the tray. The prior discloses a variety shapeable support stands for an electronic device which each comprises a deformable cushion. The prior art discloses a foam wedge and a bean bag attached to the foam wedge for supporting the foam wedge on a user's lap.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a saucer that has a dinner plate indentation integrated into the saucer. A dinner plate can be positioned in the dinner plate indentation. A cushion is coupled to the saucer such that the cushion can be positioned on a user's lap when the user is seated. In this way the saucer is oriented in a preferred orientation to facilitate the user to eat from the dinner plate when the dinner plate is positioned in the dinner plate indentation. The cushion is comprised of a deformable material to conform to the shape of the user's lap thereby facilitating the saucer to be positioned in a horizontal orientation.
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
A cushion 30 is coupled to the saucer 12 and the cushion 30 can be positioned on a user's lap 32 when the user 34 is seated. In this way the saucer 12 is oriented in a preferred orientation to facilitate the user 34 to eat from the dinner plate 16 when the dinner plate 16 is positioned in the dinner plate indentation 14. Thus, the user 34 does not have to conscientiously balance the dinner plate 16 on their lap 32 while they eat from the dinner plate 16. The cushion 30 is comprised of a deformable material to conform to the shape of the user's lap 32 thereby facilitating the saucer 12 to be positioned in a horizontal orientation. As is most clearly shown in
The cushion 30 has an outside wall 36 and the outside wall 36 is bonded to the lower surface 26 of the lower wall 18 of the saucer 12. Furthermore, the cushion 30 has a circumference that is greater than the circumference of the saucer 12. Thus, the cushion 30 extends outwardly beyond the outer wall 20 of the saucer 12. In this way the cushion 30 can enhance stability of the saucer 12 when the cushion 30 is positioned on the user's lap 32.
In use, the cushion 30 is positioned on the user's lap 32 when the user 34 is seated. In this way the cushion 30 conforms to the contours of the user's lap 32 such that the saucer 12 can be retained in a horizontal orientation. Furthermore, the dinner plate 16 is retained in a horizontal orientation when the dinner plate 16 is positioned in the dinner plate indentation 14. Thus, the user 34 can eat from the dinner plate 16 without having to conscientiously balance the dinner plate 16 on their lap 32. The cushion 30 can be positioned on any uneven surface thereby facilitating the sauce to be retained in a horizontal orientation for eating in a variety of locations.
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.
