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US 5,474,153 AGranted
Hydraulic system for serving food
OwnerYukio Iwamoto, Masako Iwamotoinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus for serving and displaying food including a continuous watercourse. Patrons sit around a periphery of the watercourse and food carriers circulate in the watercourse and carry various types of food. The food carriers are structurally independent from one another so that each food carriers is independently removable from the said watercourse. The food carriers also have a bumper sized to maintain a predetermined spacing between the food carriers in the watercourse.
Claims4
An apparatus for serving and displaying food comprising:
- a continuous watercourse having a watercourse width and an outer periphery, the continuous watercourse containing water having a free surface;
- means for seating patrons along at least a portion of the outer periphery of the continuous watercourse;
- means for inducing a current in the continuous watercourse;
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- a plurality of food carriers floating in the continuous watercourse under the influence of said current, said food carriers being structurally independent from one another so that each food carrier is independently removable from said watercourse, said food carriers each having a wire bumper sized to maintain a predetermined spacing between said food carriers in said watercourse.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.