Plate-and-glass assemblies
OwnerRonald Patterson, John W. Pattersoninventors
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Abstract
Plate-and-glass assemblies which include a plate, a glass detachably assembled to the plate, and a separated fabricated glass holder which is subsequently attached to the bottom of the plate to hold that component and the glass together. Indicia on the upper, food-receiving surface of the plate facilitate the assembling of the glass to the plate; and an optional drinking straw port provides a convenient way of locking the plate and glass together and also makes it possible to reach the contents of the glass without removing the plate.
Claims22
A plate-and-glass assembly comprising:
- a plate with a food-receiving surface and a lower side;
- a glass with a radial rim at an open end thereof;
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- a glass holder which is a separate component from, and is attached to, the lower side of the plate;
- said glass holder and said plate cooperating to allow relative radial sliding displacement of the glass relative to the plate and said glass holder having means so engageable with the rim on the glass as to trap said rim against the lower side of the plate as the glass is radially displaced relative to the plate and thereby so couple said glass to said plate that the mouth of said glass is covered by said plate and said glass is in an upright orientation when said plate is horizontally oriented.
A plate-and-glass assembly comprising:
- a plate with a food-receiving surface and a lower side;
- a glass with a rim at an open end thereof;
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- a glass holder which cooperates with said plate to allow relative radial sliding displacement of the glass relative to the plate;
- said glass holder having means so engageable with the rim on the glass as to trap said rim against the lower side of the plate as the glass is radially displaced relative to the plate and thereby so couple said glass to said plate that the mouth of said glass is covered by said plate and said glass is in an upright orientation;
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- said assembly also having a further and separate component thereafter engageable with said plate and said glass to lock the glass to the plate.
A plate-and-glass assembly comprising:
- a plate with an upper, food-receiving surface and a lower side;
- a glass with a radial rim at an open end thereof;
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- a glass holder which has means cooperating with the lower side of the plate to define a channel through which the rim of the glass can be radially slidingly displaced from the periphery toward the center of the plate;
- said channel having a mouth for receiving the rim at the open end of the glass and said glass holder also having means engageable with said rim as to trap the rim against the lower side of the plate as the glass is radially displaced relative to the plate along said channel toward the center of the plate such that the glass holder couples said glass to said plate with the mouth of said glass covered by said plate and said glass in an upright orientation when the plate is horizontally oriented;
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- here being indicia means on the upper surface of the plate which identifies the location of the mouth of the glass receiving channel.
A plate-and-glass assembly comprising:
- a plate with a food-receiving surface and a lower side;
- a glass with a rim at an open end thereof;
- a glass holder which cooperates with said plate to allow relative radial sliding displacement of the glass relative to the plate, said glass holder having means so engageable with the rim on the glass as to trap said rim against the lower side of the plate as the glass is radially displaced relative to the plate and thereby couple said glass to said plate with the glass upright and the mouth of the glass covered by said plate when said plate is horizontally oriented;
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- said assembly further comprising means affording access to the contents of said glass without removal of the glass from the plate.
A glass holder which can be attached to the lower side of a plate to provide a mechanism for detachably coupling a glass to said plate and thereby providing an easily handled plate-and-glass assembly, said glass holder having:
- a main body portion with a peripheral configuration contoured to complement the peripheral configuration of the bottom of that plate with which the glass holder is intended to be employed;
- a channel with a glass-receiving mouth opening onto the periphery of the main body portion, said channel extending radially inward to a closed end so located beyond the center of the main body portion that a glass radially displaced along the channel to the closed end thereof is centered on the lower side of the plate;
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- a lip oriented parallel to and spaced from said main body portion and extending along the boundary of said channel for trapping a rim at the open end of a glass against the lower side of a plate to which the glass holder is attached as the glass is radially displaced relative to the plate through said channel, thereby detachably coupling the glass to the plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.