Attachment for a container
OwnerAlex PaPasoderoinventor
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Abstract
An attachment is designed for removable mounting on various types of conventional cookware containers, such as cooking pots, mixing bowls or frying pans. The attachment includes a spout which serves to assist in pouring food products out from the container. The attachment also includes a cover disposed partially across the top surface of the spout, the cover serving to minimize the splashing of the food product during a pouring operation. The attachment additionally includes inner and outer support members which together retain the attachment in its mounted position on the container. With the attachment mounted on the container, the inner and outer support members conform tightly against and frictionally engage the inner and outer surfaces, respectively, of the sidewall of the container.
Claims12
An attachment for a cookware container for use in the preparation, mixing and cooking of food products, the cookware container comprising a bottom surface and a sidewall, the sidewall having an inner surface and an outer surface, the attachment comprising:
- (a) inner and outer support members for removably mounting the attachment on the sidewall of the cookware container, one support member on each side of the sidewall,
- (b) a spout extending laterally outward from said inner and outer support members, said spout being substantially narrow and concave so as to enable food products retained within the cookware container to be poured out as a narrow, controlled stream, said spout including a top surface;
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- (c) a cover fixed relative to the spout and extending partially across the top surface of the spout, the cover and the spout together defining a product delivery channel.
The attachment as claimed in 10 wherein one end of the compression spring is fixedly mounted in the inner support member and the other end of the compression spring is fixedly mounted in the outer support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.