Butter storing and conditioning device
OwnerCharles L. Sargentinventor
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Abstract
A butter storing and conditioning device which maintains butter at a desired temperature to keep the butter cool enough not to melt and warm enough to easily spread. The device includes a housing which covers the butter while placed upon a butter dish resting on a counter or table top. Heating and cooling means are provided for heating or cooling the air to maintain the butter at the desired temperature. In one embodiment, an air duct is formed by the housing and a fan for circulating air through the housing and past the butter.
Claims17
A device for maintaining a stick of butter set upon a counter or table top surface at a desired temperature comprising:
- a housing forming a butter chamber having an open bottom of a size sufficiently large for the stick of butter to be received into said butter chamber by placement of said housing over the stick of butter with the top surface closing the open bottom of said butter chamber whereby the stick of butter is enclosed within said butter chamber;
- temperature means for cooling the air within said butter chamber to cool the stick of butter;
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- thermostat means coupled to said temperature means for controlling the operation of said temperature means to cool the air within said butter chamber depending upon the air temperature within said housing in order to maintain a predetermined air temperature within said butter chamber.
A device for maintaining butter at a desired temperature comprising:
- a dish for supporting a stick of butter upon a counter or table top surface;
- a housing forming a butter chamber having an open bottom of a size sufficiently large for said dish to be received into said butter chamber by placement of said housing over said dish and the stick of butter with the top surface closing the open bottom of said butter chamber whereby the stick of butter is enclosed within said butter chamber;
- temperature means for cooling the air within said butter chamber to cool the stick of butter;
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- thermostat means coupled to said temperature means for controlling the operation of said temperature means to cool the air within said butter chamber depending upon the air temperature within said housing.
A dish for supporting two quarter pound sticks of butter comprising:
- two identical dish halves each of which can carry a single quarter pound stick of butter, said dish halves each including a horizontal support wall upon which the butter is placed and a vertical wall extending upward from said horizontal support wall along one edge of said horizontal support wall and parallel to the length of the stick of butter, said vertical wall extending above the stick of butter placed upon said horizontal support wall;
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- said dish halves having means for joining said dish halves to one another with said vertical walls of said dish halves engaging one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.