U.S. patent application number 11/275579 was filed with the patent office on 2006-12-21 for tray with baby food jar holder.
This patent application is currently assigned to CATALYST PDG, INC.. Invention is credited to Jason S. Andrews, Andrew Mendenhall, Dennis M. Turner.
Application Number | 20060283866 11/275579 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 37572360 |
Filed Date | 2006-12-21 |
United States Patent
Application |
20060283866 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Mendenhall; Andrew ; et
al. |
December 21, 2006 |
TRAY WITH BABY FOOD JAR HOLDER
Abstract
A tray includes a plate formed to include ajar receiver and a
food receptacle arranged to lie in side-by-side relation to the
food receptacle.
Inventors: |
Mendenhall; Andrew;
(Mooresville, IN) ; Andrews; Jason S.;
(Indianapolis, IN) ; Turner; Dennis M.;
(Mooresville, IN) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP
11 SOUTH MERIDIAN
INDIANAPOLIS
IN
46204
US
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Assignee: |
CATALYST PDG, INC.
5201 Park Emerson Drive
Indianapolis
IN
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Family ID: |
37572360 |
Appl. No.: |
11/275579 |
Filed: |
January 17, 2006 |
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Application
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Filing Date |
Patent Number |
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60645057 |
Jan 19, 2005 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
220/575 ;
206/216; 206/502; 206/557 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47G 19/06 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
220/575 ;
206/502; 206/216; 206/557 |
International
Class: |
A47G 21/00 20060101
A47G021/00; B65D 21/00 20060101 B65D021/00; B65D 1/34 20060101
B65D001/34 |
Claims
1. A juvenile feeding tray comprising a plate formed to include
ajar receiver and a food receptacle arranged to lie in side-by-side
relation to the food receptacle, the jar receiver being formed to
include means for retaining an opened baby food jar in fixed
relation to the plate to position an open mouth of the jar in
alignment and communication with a first opening formed in the
plate.
Description
[0001] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.
119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/645,057, filed
Jan. 19, 2005, which is expressly incorporated by reference
herein.
BACKGROUND
[0002] The present disclosure relates to juvenile feeding
apparatus, and particularly to juvenile feeding trays. More
particularly, the present disclosure relates to holders for baby
food jars.
SUMMARY
[0003] A tray comprises a plate formed to include a jar receiver
and a food receptacle arranged to lie in side-by-side relation to
the food receptacle. The jar receiver is formed to include means
for retaining an opened baby food jar in fixed relation to the
plate to position an open mouth of the jar in alignment and
communication with a first opening formed in the plate.
[0004] In the illustrated embodiment, the jar receiver includes a
cylindrical ring appended to an underside of the plate and aligned
with the first opening formed in the plate. Internal threads formed
on the cylindrical ring are configured to mate with external
threads provided around the open mouth of the jar and configured to
mate with ajar lid to support the baby food jar in the jar
receiver.
[0005] Also in the illustrated embodiment, the food receptacle is
arranged to extend downwardly from the plate so that a top opening
of the food receptacle lies alongside the first opening into a baby
food jar retained in the jar receiver. During feeding a caregiver
can scoop food from the baby food jar through the first opening in
the plate and place it in a "staging zone" defined by the food
receptacle before it is fed to a hungry child.
[0006] Also in the illustrated embodiment, one portion of the plate
is formed to provide a handgrip. The jar receiver is arranged to
lie between the handgrip and the food receptacle. A perimeter edge
of the plate extends around the jar receiver and the food
receptacle and mates with a lid sized to cover the two openings
formed in the plate.
[0007] Additional features of the present disclosure will become
apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the
following detailed description of illustrative embodiments
exemplifying the best mode of carrying out the disclosure as
presently perceived.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] The detailed description particularly relates to the
accompanying figures in which:
[0009] FIG. 1 is a perspective assembly view showing a lid carrying
a spoon mounted on a tray formed to include a food receptacle
depending from a plate underlying the lid and showing an unopened
baby food jar under the plate;
[0010] FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the tray of FIG. 1
showing the baby food jar aligned with a first opening formed in
the plate and mated with ajar receiver that is arranged to lie
between a handgrip located at a left end of the plate and showing a
food receptacle located at a right end of the plate; and
[0011] FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 2
showing mating engagement of the jar receiver and the opened baby
food jar and suggesting transfer of food from the jar into the food
receptacle before delivery of that food to a hungry child.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0012] A tray 10 formed to include a food receptacle 12 and covered
by a lid 14 is shown in FIG. 1. Tray 10 is configured to hold an
opened baby food jar 16 alongside food receptacle 12 in the manner
suggested in FIGS. 2 and 3 after removal of a lid 18 from baby food
jar 16.
[0013] Tray 10 includes a plate 20 having top and bottom surfaces
21, 22 bounded by a perimeter rim 24 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
Plate 20 is formed to include a first opening 23 sized to provide
access into baby food jar 16 when jar 16 is coupled to tray 10. Lid
14 is configured to mate with perimeter rim 24 to cover top surface
21 of plate 20.
[0014] Food receptacle 12 includes a continuous side wall 26
appended to bottom surface 22 of plate 20 and arranged to border a
D-shaped opening 28 formed at a right end of plate 20. Food
receptacle 12 also includes a floor 30 appended to side wall
26.
[0015] Tray 10 also includes a jar receiver 32 depending from
bottom surface 22 of the plate and lying in alignment with the
round first opening 23 formed in plate 20 as shown best in FIG. 3.
In the illustrated embodiment, jar receiver 32 is a cylindrical
ring formed to include internal threads 36 configured to mate with
external threads provided on baby food jar 16.
[0016] In the illustrated embodiment, a grip portion 38 made of a
soft material is overmolded onto a left end of plate 20 to form a
handgrip. Jar receiver 32 is arranged to lie between handgrip 38
and food receptacle 12 as shown best in FIG. 3.
[0017] In use, food 40 can be transferred using a utensil (e.g.,
spoon 42 in FIG. 1) carried, for example, on lid 14 from an
interior region 44 of baby food jar 16 along arrow 101 into a
"staging region" defined by interior region 46 of food receptacle
12. In the illustrated embodiment, a "scooped-out" inclined channel
48 is formed in top surface 21 of plate 20 in a location between
openings 34 and 28 to catch and conduct "spilled" food into
interior region 46 of food receptacle 12. Then food 50 can be
removed from interior region 46 of food receptacle 12 and fed to a
hungry child as suggested by arrow 102. Any food 50 that is not
eaten by a child and is returned to tray 10 by spoon 42 (as
suggested by arrow 103) will be located in food receptacle 12 and
can be discarded at the end of mealtime in a sanitary manner. This
uneaten food 103 will not be returned to baby food jar 16.
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