Disposable Divided Bowls

Abstract

Social awareness about health, to include eating habits is rising in understanding and importance. Despite awareness about portion size and emphasizing, deemphasizing, or balancing calories, fats, salt, sugars, and other food components; there is still interest in food choice. One approach to variety with health consideration is to sample favorite foods or foods of interest rather than limiting one's selection and feeling obligated to consume fuller portion sizes. Sampling of solid foods is more easily done with a typical or even divided disposable plate. However, sampling liquid based foods is more difficult. One can do so by using multiple bowls, cups, or even reverting to sharing but these options are hard to carry and sharing with others than a close loved one is not advised. The MultiBowl of this disclosure provides a solution by forming one or more partitions into a typical individual use food bowl to divide the single serving well into two or more serving wells. Although possible, the MultiBowl is not intended to replace a formal table setting, but is ideal for banquets, picnics, get-togethers, parties, snacking, and other such events where stackability at a point of service and easy clean up with disposability are useful. It also becomes immediately useful for crafts, hobbies, sorting, repairs at home or work, and other times when multiple containers can be substituted with the MultiBowl. The MultiBowl provides solution for simplicity with multiple service wells, expected affordability, multiple availability from stackability, and temporary durability with disposability.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Not applicable.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not applicable.REFERENCE TO A SEQUENCE LISTING[0003]Not applicable.COPYRIGHT STATEMENT[0004]All of the material in this patent document is subject to copyright protection under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. The copyright owner has no objection to the reproduction by anyone of a complete patent, patent application, or invention disclosure as published by the copyright owner, government, or found in a government record. Otherwise all other copyright provisions whatsoever are reserved.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0005]Field of the Invention[0006]The present invention relates to the fields of kitchenware, more specifically to personal use disposable and stackable bowls divided to create two or more food serving wells or other multi-compartmental container uses.[0007]State of the Art Assessment[0008]Bowls used for group and individ...

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Benefits of technology

[0024]Needed is a stackable and disposable multiple serving well bowl, or the MultiBowl. When catering an outside event, and where informal food service ware is acceptable, the ability to bring all needed plates, bowls, utensils, napkins, and other such items nested within themselves is an important catering aid. Stackability is beneficial not only to the caterer, but all along the logistics chain from the manufacturer, the wholesaler or retailer, to the end user whether that is a business, group, family, or individual. The ability to access a supply of nested bowls, and especially multiple food service well bowls is helpful.

[0025]The disposability of the MultiBowl is an important feature in its use. The inclusion of more than one food service well in a bowl inherently suggests an informal table setting or meal situation. A stackable and then disposable MultiBowl is ideal for just such a situation. For a caterer, cleaning up an even is also an important consideration of the full service. Where informal food service ware is acceptable, disposability becomes a key feature and utility. Disposability provides for convenience and simplicity in clean up, but also provides for improved and rapid health and safety accommodation. The simplicity and safety of the disposable MultiBowl reaches from a business service near necessity to a home and individual use convenience, and in many cases improves health and safety considerations.

Problems solved by technology

Foods with more liquid character creates more of a sampling challenge.

Discussed above is the presence of multiple well bowls of more permanent construction, not available in the number needed to cater an even, not easily transported to a catered event, and for informal settings not conducive to the lack of immediate cleansing and sanitizing, too delicate for transport, and so many other incompatible factors and their combinations for many catering service business events, as well as family and personal use situations.

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