US 5,341,953 AGranted

Partitioned cereal bowl

OwnerMary C. Foresterinventor

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Abstract

A partitioned cereal bowl with a region for dry cereal and another for liquid such as milk. A cereal bowl is provided, which precludes cereal from oversoaking, by partitioning it into a dry cereal-holding region and a liquid (milk)-holding region. The cereal-holding region is sloped in order to facilitate a sliding or scooping transfer of its contents over the partition and into the liquid-holding region. The base of the liquid-holding region is troughed in order to facilitate removal of all the liquid or cereal contained therein. Two embodiments exist to the invention, a first having a cereal region sloped base which descends to the partition from about the rim of the bowl and, an alternate version, in which the cereal region's sloped base ascends from near the bottom of the bowl to the crest of the partition. The basic concept of use is to maintain the dry cereal in set-apart fashion from the liquid contents until just prior to consumption when the consumer may moisten the cereal by scooping or sliding over a desired amount into the liquid.

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Dependent claims

An open container for holding a dry, particulate breakfast cereal and a liquid in a set apart relationship so that a user may selectively moisten said cereal in said liquid during consumption, said container comprising in combination:

a unitary, single bowl having an upper rim that is completely contained within a horizontal plane, that is separated into a first portion and a second portion by a chordwise-disposed, solid partition, having a generally triangular cross-section, so that said first portion comprises a first minor basin of greater depth than said second portion, having a bottom, said first portion featuring at the base thereof an arcuate circumferentially-disposed trough that is receptive of a radiused tip of a spoon instrument and said second portion comprising a second minor basin which features a sloped bottom that is at a higher elevation than the bottom of said first portion terminating at said partition and featuring means for facilitating cereal movement by said spoon instrument over said partition and into said first portion, said means comprising a side of said partition facing said second portion being upwardly sloping in the direction of said first portion.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.