Corn on the cob buttering device
OwnerKarl G. Schoemerinventor
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Abstract
The buttering device is a double walled vessel having an interior chamber containing liquid butter, a lid, and a handle. The vessel has a height sufficient to admit a corn on the cob and between the outer wall and the inner wall, an hollow annular space for heated water. The lid closes the top of the chamber and extends over the outer wall of the vessel. The lid has a center opening with flaps that admits the end of corn on the cob and the flaps glide upon the corn. Heated water placed in the annular space melts butter added to the chamber. Corn on the cob, inserted through the opening, coats itself in butter. Once buttered, the corn on the cob is withdrawn from the lid where the flaps retain excess butter within the chamber.
Claims10
A container for buttering corn on the cob comprising:
- a vessel, having an outer wall and an inner wall inside of said outer wall, and said outer wall having a top, an annular space formed between said outer wall and said inner wall;
- a lid removably secured upon said vessel having an approximately centered round opening an two or more flaps ending at said opening;
- said vessel having a closed bottom and an opposite open top;
- said inner wall forming a chamber having a closed bottom and an open top, said top being folded over to overlap with said outer wall, and a generally round shape to receive corn on the cob and butter;
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- said annular space continuing beneath said chamber and above the bottom of said outer wall, and within the annular space formed between said outer wall and said inner wall provided for introduction of a heated medium to sustain the butter into a liquid stage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.