Patent ID: 7360666
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for assisting a user to support food stuff, beverage and utensil supplies on a single platform, said apparatus comprising: a body formed from non-porous material and having a substantially planar bottom surface and further having monolithically formed sidewalls vertically extending upwardly therefrom, said body including a plurality of linear dividers radially protruding away from a center of said body and having distal end portions monolithically formed with said sidewalls respectively, said dividers cooperating with said sidewalls for defining a plurality of compartments for housing food stuff therein such that the food stuff can be effectively maintained in a predetermined area defined by selected ones of said compartments, said body further having an annular lip vertically offset from said bottom surface and centrally disposed on said bottom surface, said dividers further having proximal end portions juxtaposed adjacent said lip and adjoining an outer perimeter thereof wherein the perimeter of said lip has a threaded outer surface; a cup holder suitably sized and shaped for resting directly on said lip and being removably engageable with said lip; and a handle having a frusto-conical shape removably engageable directly with said lip; wherein said lip further includes a raised bottom surface vertically offset from said bottom surface of said body and seated thereabove, said raised bottom surface having a threaded inner wall; said handle having a top end portion provided with a threaded outer surface, said threaded outer surface of said handle being removably and directly engaged with said inner wall of said lip bottom surface and nested directly below said lip; wherein said bottom surface of said lip is planar and registered parallel to said bottom surface of said body; wherein said cup holder has a bottom most end directly engaged with said bottom surface of said body and concentrically positioned about said threaded outer surface; wherein said top end portion of said handle terminates above said bottom surface of said body and below said bottom surface of said lip respectively.