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US 2009/0098258 A1Published application
Disposable butter dish
OwnerRosemarie Arnoldinventor
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Abstract
The invention includes a disposable container with a lid and a base. The base includes an amount of seal-forming liquid, such as water. The lid includes a butter reservoir and cooperates with the base to enclose the butter reservoir and the water. The water and the butter reservoir form a seal to keep butter in the butter reservoir fresh at room temperature.
Claims18
A disposable container, comprising:
- a base having a liquid reservoir, the liquid reservoir configured to contain a seal-forming liquid;
- a lid having a butler reservoir, the lid configured to cooperate with the base to enclose the butter reservoir and the liquid reservoir, and configured to provide a seal when the seal-forming liquid is present;
- the base and the lid comprising a disposable material, the base and the lid configured to be disposed of after a single filling with butter and subsequent removal of the butter.
A method of storing butter at room temperature in a disposable container, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a disposable container having a disposable base with a liquid reservoir and a disposable lid with a butter reservoir, the lid cooperating with the base to enclose the butter reservoir and the liquid reservoir;
- b) placing butter in the butter reservoir;
- c) instructing a consumer to place an amount of the seal-forming liquid in the liquid reservoir of the disposable base, the amount of seal-forming liquid sufficient to form a seal when the disposable lid and the disposable base are assembled;
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- d) refrigerating the butter in the butter reservoir as required to preserve the butter prior to the addition of the seal-forming liquid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.