US2642731A - Saucer - Google Patents

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June 23, 1953 A. VALENTI 1 2,642,731

SAUCER Filed June 4, 1951 Jill INVEN TOR. ANTHONY M4LE/VT/ ATTORNEY i Patented June 23, 1953 SAUCER Anthony Valenti, Rochester, N. Y.

Application June 4, 1951, Serial No. 229,693

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to saucers and more particularly to a saucer designed to hold a cup or the like.

One of the principal objections to saucers of known construction is that when a spoon is placed on the saucer, that holds a cup, the spoon is likely to slip down into the center well of the saucer, when a person lifts the cup oil of the saucer to take a drink out of the cup, with the result that the spoon interferes with the proper seating of the cup back on the saucer and may even cause the cup to be tilted and its contents spilled.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved saucer constructed with means for receiving the spoon and for preventing the spoon from slipping down into the center well of the saucer.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent hereinafter from the specification and from the recital of the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a saucer made according to one embodiment of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a section through the saucer taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1 and lookingin the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a section corresponding to Fig. 3 but showing a spoon positioned in the spoon-receiving recesses of the saucer; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 1 but showing the spoon positioned in the spoonreceiving recesses of thesaucer.

A saucer made according to the present invention may be circular shaped, like that shown in the drawing, or of any other suitable peripheral shape. The saucer shown has a central circular well ll formed on its upper face adapted to receive the base of a cup which is used with the saucer.

Offset from the central well II and adjacent the periphery of the saucer, the saucer is provided on its upper face with two aligned shallow grooves or recesses I2 and I3. These shallow grooves are preferably identical in shape. One of them is intended to receive the handle l4 and the other is adapted to receive the bowl of a conventional spoon so as to prevent the spoon from slipping into the center well ll of the saucer, when the cup, which is used with the saucer, is lifted off of the saucer. This prevents interference of the spoon with the return of the cup to the centralwell ll. 1 While the invention has been described in connection with a particular embodiment thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modification, and this application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art to which the invention pertains and as may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth and as fall within the scope of the invention or the limits of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A saucer having a central circular well to receive the base of a cup, said saucer being flared upwardly from said well to its periphery, the flared portion of said saucer having therein two separate, longitudinally-spaced recesses having concavely-curved bottoms, said recesses being aligned along a line extending approximately medianly of the recesses and offset from said well and constituting a chord of a circle concentric with said well, said recesses being adapted to receive, respectively, the handle and the bowl of a spoon, said chord lying outside said Well, and said recesses being spaced a distance apart greater than the diameter of said well and being of generally elliptical shape and having their major axes extending in a direction generally circumferential of said well.

ANTHONY VALENTI.

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