Adjustable food-portioning device
OwnerDaniel McCartneyinventor
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Abstract
A device for portioning food, and more specifically, a device that can be adjusted so that portions of food can be varied in accordance with an individual's dietary requirements, is disclosed. Such a food-portioning device includes an annular wall, a hub, and a plurality of dividing means extending from the hub to the annular wall so as to form a plurality of spaces between the dividing means, each space having an open top and an open bottom, wherein at least one of the dividing means is attached to the hub in a manner that allows it to at least partially rotate about the hub relative to an adjacent dividing means.
Claims12
A food-portioning device, comprising:
- an annular wall;
- an elongate hub;
- and
- a plurality of dividing means, each dividing means comprising a partition wall extending from the elongate hub to the annular wall so as to form a plurality of spaces between the dividing means and the annular wall, each space having an open top and an open bottom, and each space being suitable to receive food and to portion the food;
- wherein the elongate hub extends in the direction of the partition wall;
- wherein at least one of the dividing means is attached to the elongate hub in a manner that allows it to at least partially rotate about the hub relative to an adjacent dividing means;
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- wherein the at least one dividing means that is capable of rotating about the elongate hub further comprises a sleeve that straddles the annular wall.
A food-portioning device comprising:
- an annular wall, wherein the annular wall has a different vertical height at different points along a periphery thereof;
- an elongate hub;
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- a plurality of dividing means, each dividing means comprising a partition wall extending from the elongate hub to the annular wall so as to form a plurality of spaces between the dividing means and the annular wall, each space having an open top and an open bottom, and each space being suitable to receive food and to portion the food;
- wherein the elongate hub extends in the direction of the partition wall;
- wherein at least one of the dividing means is a non-rotatable dividing means attached to the elongate hub and/or to the annular wall in a manner that does not allow that dividing means to rotate about the elongate hub;
- wherein at least one of the dividing means is a rotatable dividing means which comprises a sleeve that straddles the annular wall and is attached to the elongate hub in a manner that allows it to at least partially rotate about the elongate hub relative to an adjacent dividing means;
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- wherein said annular wall, elongate hub and non-rotatable dividing means define a food-portioning device base portion configured for attachment of at least one said rotatable dividing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.