Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Treating or preparing food material having nonedible feature...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-19
2001-07-24
Cano, Milton (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Treating or preparing food material having nonedible feature...
C426S132000, C426S590000, C426S592000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06265010
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a novel method and a novel device for preparing a drink glass with a salt-coated rim, particularly for a margarita cocktail.
The well known margarita cocktail is made of tequila liquor, an orange-flavored liqueur, and lime or lemon juice. It is usually served in a glass whose rim is treated with salt. For this purpose, it is a known practice to provide a wide-mouthed salt container into which the wet rim of an inverted drink glass is inserted to pick up a coating of salt before the margarita cocktail is added. One salt container used for this purpose has a removable lid that is sombrero shaped to suggest the Mexican origin of the desert plant from which the tequila liquor is distilled.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to a novel method of preparing a drink glass with a salt-coated rim and to a novel salt container lid for use in a preferred embodiment of that method.
In accordance with the method of this invention, lime juice or lemon juice is squeezed into a shallow open-topped recess formed in the salt container lid, and the rim of an inverted drink glass is dipped into this juice to be wetted by it before being dipped into the salt in the container. The container lid may be in the shape of a sombrero with a shallow, annular, open-topped recess surrounding the crown, or the lid may be generally flat with a shallow, annular, open-topped recess, for the purpose of holding lime juice or lemon juice into which the rim of the drink glass may be dipped. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of this invention, the crown of a generally sombrero-shaped lid for a salt container has a novel externally ribbed construction designed to have a half-lime or a half-lemon squeezed against it to cause the juice to run down into the open-topped annular recess below.
A principal object of this invention is to provide a novel and improved method of preparing a drink glass for use with its rim coated with salt.
Another primary object of this invention is to provide a novel salt container lid for use in practicing the method of the present invention.
Further objects and advantages of this invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of presently-preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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patent: 5370884 (1994-12-01), Coleman
patent: 5743423 (1998-04-01), Franco
Bell Boy Supplies Home Page, see add for Margarita salt #MIX23562, http://www.bellboycorp.com, Aug. 1997.*
Freshies com, What's Shakin Page, add for colored salts, http://www.freshies.com, Dec. 1998.*
C.R. Manufacturing Foodservice, Restaurant & Bar Supplies, Featured Products, add for Margarita Made Easy Glass Rimmer, http://www.crmfg.com, Jul. 2000.
Cano Milton
Dauerman Sherry A.
Oltman Flynn & Kubler
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