Single hand use baby food and container tray

Abstract

A tray for holding multiple baby food, baby food jars, containers, plates, bowls and cups designed to be held with one hand by inserting the thumb of a user through a centrally located hole in the tray and using the remaining fingers on the bottom of the tray as support.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]This invention relates to a multiple compartment tray for use with baby food, baby food jars, bottles, cups and other containers, designed to be used with one hand.[0003]2. Description of the Prior Art[0004]Anyone who has had the responsibility of feeding a single baby, twins or multiple children, can appreciate the observation that the normal set of arms or hands is just not enough. Typically, infants are fed in highchairs, car seats, or other similar type of restraint system. The care giver must open numerous baby food bottles, one for each child, and then find a way to feed the contents of each bottle to the child in the high chair while all the time keeping the food from easy reach of the out stretched hands of the toddler. Throw in cereal bowl or a drink container and you have a situation where two arms just cannot do the trick. One might think that the problem could be solved by placing the jars, bowls or bottles ...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a easy to use, inexpensive, hand held food tray. It is a further object of this invention to provide multiple storage compartments for baby food and / or baby food jars, cups, containers, bottles, and bowls. It is still a further object of this invention to provide for secure, stable use of the tray with one hand. Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description when viewed in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which set forth certain embodiments of the invention.

Problems solved by technology

Throw in cereal bowl or a drink container and you have a situation where two arms just cannot do the trick.

In the case of a emergency need to remove the occupants from the highchair, stroller or car seat, the attachment device would first have to detached; an additional drawback.

Another example of the first category of solutions is U.S. Pat. No. 6,382,459, issued to Anita Liu, for a “Handle Accessory for Infant Feeding Bowl.” The limitations of the Liu patent is that it applies specifically to bowls and once again is subject to being vibrated by kicking and knocking by the occupant.

This position is not ergonomic and will result in rapid fatigue to the hand.

Notwithstanding the claims of Aragona, the Aragona tray suffers from the same ergonomic deficiencies as the Doty patent.

The weight of the tray is ultimately supported by the wrist and fingers which over time will result in fatigue.

There is however, no adequate means which would allow the tray to properly rest on a person's forearm.

The forearm of the person using the tray is not flat and therefore, the flat tray will not be stabilized when resting on the curved surfaces of a user.

While the combination of a hand grip coupled with a forearm rest were an improvement to the prior art, the invention disclosed in the Brickley patent is far more complicated than what is necessary.

Of course, in terms of manufacture, increased complication equates to increased manufacturing costs, a definite drawback.

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