Basting device
AssigneeWKI Holding Company, Inc.
InventorsCyan Godfrey, Adam Sanchez
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Abstract
A liquid extraction/discharge device includes an elongate, hollow tube having a proximal end and a distal end and defining an internal passage therethrough, a flexible and resilient squeeze bulb defining a chamber therein and engaged with the proximal end of the tube for providing communication between the passage and the chamber, and a relatively rigid base mounted on the tube adjacent to the proximal end for engagement with the squeeze bulb to provide a support against which the squeeze bulb may be compressed.
Claims20
A liquid extraction/discharge device comprising:
- an elongate hollow tube having a proximal end and a distal end and defining an internal passage therethrough,
- a flexible and resilient squeeze bulb defining a chamber therein and removably engaged with the proximal end of the tube for providing communication between the passage and the chamber, and
- a relatively rigid base removably mounted on the tube adjacent to the proximal end independently of the squeeze bulb for engagement with the squeeze bulb to provide a support against which the squeeze bulb may be compressed.
A liquid extraction/discharge device comprising:
- an elongate hollow tube having a proximal end and a distal end and defining an internal passage therethrough,
- a flexible and resilient squeeze bulb defining a chamber therein and engaged with the proximal second end of the tube for providing communication between the passage and the chamber, and
- a relatively rigid base mounted on the tube adjacent to the proximal end for engagement with the squeeze bulb to provide a support against which the squeeze bulb may be compressed,
- the base having a pair of spaced-apart wings extending laterally outwardly from the tube so that the index and middle finger of a user's hand may respectively be hooked beneath the wings when the thumb of the hand engages the top of the squeeze bulb to facilitate one-hand operation, the wings cooperating to define a generally saddle-shaped upper end of the base for receiving the bulb.
A method of using a basting device having an elongate hollow tube and a flexible and resilient squeeze bulb coupled to an end of the tube for communication therewith, the method comprising:
- removably mounting on the tube independently of the squeeze bulb a relatively rigid base having a pair of spaced-apart wings extending laterally outwardly from the tube and disposed for engagement with the squeeze bulb,
- grasping the device by hooking the index finger and middle finger of one hand respectively beneath the wings of the base while the thumb of the one hand engages the top of the squeeze bulb, and then
- squeezing and releasing the squeeze bulb toward and away from the base with the thumb of the one hand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.