Combined butter stick platform and corn rest
AssigneeMidwest Cactus, LLC
InventorChad Elam
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Abstract
A device for buttering an ear of corn having a butter stick platform and a corn rest. The butter stick platform has an upper butter base surface for supporting a butter stick, and a peripheral wall extending downward to a base. A containment wall can surround and be separated laterally from the peripheral wall to provide a trough between the peripheral wall and the containment wall. The corn rest has a corn base having a concave upper surface with openings for placement thereupon of an ear of corn, and a frame having side walls that extend downwardly partly into the trough when the corn rest is in a first position resting upon a stick of butter. As the butter stick melts and is used, the frame rides downward into the trough to maintain contact between the ear of corn and the butter stick.
Claims19
A device for buttering an ear of corn, comprising:
- a) a butter stick rest including a butter base including an upper surface configured for placement thereupon a stick of butter, and a peripheral wall including a pair of opposed side walls and a pair of opposed end walls extending downward from the lateral side edges and end edges, respectively, of the butter base, to a lower edge;
- b) a corn rest comprising
- i) a corn base including a concave upper surface configured for placement thereupon an ear of corn, and the concave upper surface having lateral side edges and an undersurface, and having one or more openings, and
- ii) a frame comprising a pair of opposed side walls that extend downwardly from an underside of the corn base and having distal edges,
- wherein the distal edges of the opposed side walls of the corn rest extend partially along an upper portion of the peripheral wall of the butter stick rest when the corn rest is in a first position at which the undersurface of the corn base rests on a top surface of a butter stick placed upon the butter base of the butter stick rest, and extend substantially completely down along the peripheral wall when the corn rest is in a second position at which the undersurface of the corn base rests upon the butter base;
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- c. a base including a floor, wherein the lower edge of the peripheral wall of the butter stick rest attaches to, and extends upward from, the floor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.