Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Imitated – simulated – ornamental – three-dimensional product...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-09
2001-10-02
Bhat, Nina (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Imitated, simulated, ornamental, three-dimensional product...
C426S120000, C426S132000, C426S128000, C099S4210HH
Reexamination Certificate
active
06296884
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to a food product for human consumption. More particularly, it relates to a kit for making s'mores.
BACKGROUND
Campers sitting around a fire and families enjoying backyard barbeques often take pleasure in creating a dessert known as a s'more. A s'more generally includes a toasted marshmallow and a piece of chocolate sandwiched between two graham crackers. To enjoy these treats, however, requires extended preparation and can be quite expensive. A person must separately purchase marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate bars. There are never an equal number of components leading to inconvenient storage and inevitable wasted product. Moreover, the differing shapes and sizes of commercially available graham crackers and chocolate bars are not conducive to forming a s'more. Additionally, the s'more connoisseur must make, purchase, or locate a utensil for roasting the marshmallows. Such may require the use of a knife to sharpen a stick or a pre-fabricated skewer which both pose serious puncture hazards. Moreover, each of these items must be individually transported to the campsite or backyard barbeque, and when consumed require proper disposal of all packaging materials.
Accordingly, it would be advantageous to have a pre-packaged kit conveniently and inexpensively designed to contain all the materials required to make s'mores including a roasting utensil. The pre-packaged s'more kit would ideally include sufficient quantities of graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate wafers to make a specified number of s'mores without leaving any leftover. Advantageously, the chocolate wafers and the graham crackers would be of similar shape and size. It would also be advantageous to have a pre-packaged s'more kit suitably designed to be easily transportable to a campsite, regardless of the consumer's mode of transportation. It would be a further advantage to have a pre-packaged s'more kit designed to reduce waste once consumed.
SUMMARY
The invention is directed to a pre-packaged s'more kit. The kit contains a plurality of marshmallows, crackers, and flavored wafers shaped to fit inside an elongated container. Preferably, the kit includes a safer roasting utensil with generally rounded features also designed to fit within the elongated container. To reduce waste, once the s'more ingredients are removed, the elongated container can be reused as a storage container, a drinking cup, even a refracting telescope. Advantageously, a s'more connoisseur need only purchase one easily storable and transportable kit instead of separately purchasing each ingredient in bulk. Another non-readily apparent advantage is that the components are provided in substantially equal portions to prevent dissatisfaction among participants as to who received the larger s'more.
Additional advantages and novel features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description that follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled the art upon examination of the following or may be learned by practice of the invention. The advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
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Bhat Nina
Korfanta Craig M.
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