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US 6,783,017 B2Granted
Container lid and bagel holder
OwnerMatthew L. Griffininventor
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Abstract
A dual functioning lid that seals a container using a container sealing lip (10), and holds a bagel using a bagel steadying lip (20) and a bagel steadying protrusion (30), allowing the user's hand to be insulated from a hot bagel while applying an edible spread to the bagel.
Claims1
A kitchenware lid for a container comprising:
- a one piece lid of insulating material having a top, a container sealing lip and a bagel gripping surface, said surface extending upwardly from the container sealing lip to the top of the lid and is curved, the top has a truncated conically shaped bagel protrusion extending downward;
- wherein the lid can be removed and inverted from a closing position where the lid closes the container to be a hand held insulated bagel gripper where the curved bagel gripping surface is concave for holding the outer circumference of a bagel with the bagel protrusion extending into the hole of the bagel to steady the bagel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.