Patent Application
20190208937
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The disclosure and prior art relates to container devices and more particularly pertains to a new container device for facilitating salsa to be retained on a chip.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bowl that may contain a fluid food item. A lip is positioned in the bowl to facilitate the fluid food item to be scooped onto a chip for eating. A lid is removably coupled to the bowl such that the lid closes the bowl.
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 outer wall 18 has a bend 34 thereon such that the distal edge 20 of the outer wall 18 is directed laterally away from the outer wall 18. The bend 34 defines a concavely arcuate portion 36 of the outer wall 18. Additionally, the outer wall 18 has a flattened portion 38 extending between the bend 34 and the distal edge of the outer wall 18. The flattened portion 38 is horizontally oriented.
A lip 40 is positioned in the bowl 12 and the lip 40 facilitates the fluid food item 14 to be scooped onto a chip 42 for eating. The fluid food item 14 may be salsa or the like and the chip 42 may be a tortilla chip 42 or the like. The chip 42 is dipped into the fluid food item 14 and the chip 42 is scraped against the lip 40. In this way the lip 40 facilitates the salsa to remain on the chip 42 when the chip 42 is removed from the bowl 12.
The lip 40 is positioned on the inner surface 24 of the outer wall 18 and the lip 40 is horizontally oriented on the bowl 12. The lip 40 has a distal edge 42 with respect to the inner surface 24. Additionally, the lip 40 is concavely arcuate between the inner surface 24 and the distal edge 42 of the lip 40. The lip 40 extends along the front side 28 and partially along each of the first lateral side 30 and the second lateral side 32.
A lid 44 is removably coupled to the bowl 12 such that the lid 44 closes the bowl 12. The lid 44 has a first surface 46 and a perimeter edge 48 and the lid 44 has a concavely arcuate portion 50 with respect to the first surface 46. The concavely arcuate portion 50 of the lid 44 is spaced from the perimeter edge 48 and the concavely arcuate portion 50 of the lid 44 is coextensive with the perimeter edge 48. The concavely arcuate portion 50 of the lid engages the bend 34 on the outer wall 18 of the bowl 12. Moreover, the concavely arcuate portion 50 of the lid 44 forms a fluid impermeable seal with the bend 34 to inhibit the fluid food item 14 from escaping the bowl 12.
In use, the fluid food item 14 is poured into the bowl 12. The chip 42 is manipulated to dip the chip 42 into the fluid food item 14. Additionally, the chip 42 is positioned against the lip 40 when the chip 42 is removed from the bowl 12. In this way the lip 40 inhibits the fluid food item 14 from falling off of the chip 42 when the chip 42 is removed from the bowl 12. Thus, the chip 42 may be consumed with the fluid food item 14 positioned on the chip 42. The lid 44 is selectively positioned on the bowl 12 to retain freshness of the fluid food item 14 in the bowl 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.
