Patent Application
20160324345
The disclosure relates to popcorn salting devices and more particularly pertains to a new popcorn salting device for retaining salt in connection with a container of popcorn to facilitate salting of the popcorn as needed.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a container that has a quantity of popcorn therein. The container has a bottom and a peripheral wall which is attached to and extends upwardly therefrom. The peripheral wall has an upper edge defining an opening extending into the container. A housing has salt therein and the housing includes a first end, a second end and a perimeter wall extending between the first and second ends. The first end has a plurality of apertures extending therethrough to allow salt from the housing to flow outwardly of the housing through the apertures. The housing is removably coupled to the container with a mounting and moved back and forth over the popcorn to deposit salt on the popcorn.
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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A housing 22 is provided having salt 24 therein and may comprise a conventional salt shaker which may have a removable lid. However, the system 10 may provide for a housing 22 that is sealed and is not meant to be refilled. The housing 22 has a first end 26, a second end 28 and a perimeter wall 30 extending between the first 26 and second 28 ends. The first end 26 has a plurality of apertures 32 extending therethrough to allow salt 24 from the housing 22 to flow outwardly of the housing 22 through the apertures 32.
The housing 22 is removably coupled to the container 12 with a mounting 34 such that the first end 26 of the housing 22 is positioned over the container 12. The mounting 34 includes a clip 36 and a post 38 having a first end 40 and a second end 42. The first end 40 is attached to the clip 36 and the clip 36 is attached to the container 12 adjacent to the upper edge 20. The clip 36 is a conventional spring type clip and is removable from the container 12. The second end 42 is attached to the housing 22. The second end 42 may include a coupler 44 that releasably engages the housing 22 so that the housing 22 may be removed or replaced as needed. The coupler 44 may include a saddle 46 which frictionally engages the perimeter wall 30 with a pair of arms 48 biased towards each other due to the material characteristics of the saddle. However, the second end 42 may be non-removably attached to the housing 22. The post 38 is bendable and may be resiliently bendable such that it attempts to retain a generally straight configuration. As can be seen in
Once the clip 36 has been attached to the container 12, the housing 22 may be moved back and forth over the popcorn 14 to deposit salt 24 on the popcorn 14. By retaining the housing 22 in connection with the container 12, the user need not utilize a pocket or some other area to store the salt 24 for usage as it is needed since the popcorn 14 will typically be less salted as one moves towards a bottom of the container 12.
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.
