Patent ID: 7946221

Claim:
An automatic basting apparatus, comprising: a base defining a cavity; and a basting fluid dispensing member defining a passageway in communication with said cavity of said base, wherein said basting fluid dispensing member is a single piece and is rigid and is non-removably attached to said base, and wherein said basting fluid dispensing member dispenses basting fluid out of an outlet of said passageway at a terminal end of said basting fluid dispensing member, wherein said basting fluid dispensing member has a vertically extending portion and a shepherds hook portion, wherein said shepherds hook portion is located between said vertically extending portion and said terminal end of said basting fluid dispensing member such that said passageway extends through and is completely surrounded by said vertically extending portion and said shepherds hook portion to said outlet at said terminal end, wherein the shepherds hook portion is immediately adjacent and contacts an upper end of the vertically extending portion, wherein said passageway has a curved direction of travel along the entire length of said shepherds hook portion from one end of said shepherds hook portion to an opposite end of said shepherds hook portion, wherein said basting fluid dispensing member has an end portion that is immediately adjacent and contacts said shepherds hook portion, wherein said passageway through said end portion has a straight direction of travel along the entire length of said end portion, wherein said terminal end is at said end portion.