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US 9,138,089 B1Granted
Buttering device
OwnerRobert C. Kaley, Nancy G. Kaley +2inventors
InventorsRobert C. Kaley, Nancy G. Kaley, David F. Wolf, Patricia A. Wolf
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Abstract
A buttering device for coating the outside of hot vegetables with butter or similar coating includes a hollow receptacle to hold the butter that has the shape of a truncated wedge. The receptacle has a relatively narrow discharge opening and a relatively wide supply opening.
Claims17
A buttering device comprising:
- a pair of opposing side walls and a pair of opposing end walls joining the side walls, the side walls and the end walls being generally planar and defining a hollow receptacle having an interior bounded only by the side walls and the end walls;
- the receptacle having an open upper side and an open lower side, the lower side spaced from the upper side in a longitudinal direction of the receptacle, each side wall having a concave lower edge at the lower side of the receptacle;
- each side wall having an inner surface facing the interior of the receptacle and an opposite outer surface;
- each end wall having an inner surface facing the interior of the receptacle and an opposite outer surface;
- the pair of side walls inclined towards each other from the upper side of the receptacle towards the lower side of the receptacle;
- an elongate handle attached to and extending away from the receptacle, the handle extending from the receptacle along an axis transverse to the longitudinal direction of the receptacle;
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- wherein apart from the handle, the outer surfaces of the end walls and the outer surfaces of the side walls also define outermost surfaces of the buttering device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.