Threaded food container with presser

Abstract

A food press and drainer for preparing fermented or pickled foodstuffs, such as Kimchi, where the apparatus is a cylindrical vessel with a helical groove and a closed bottom for containing food preparations, which require both solid foodstuffs which may or may not have fluid extracted or separated during the preparation process; whereby, the extraction and separation is performed by a round support member with pluralities of drain holes formed therein; whereby, the support member has the shape of a circular disc with a head portion for manual turning where the disc is sized to fit loosely inside the helical groove of the cylindrical vessel and manual turning in the clockwise direction lowers the disc; thereby pushing the disc down over the solid foodstuff for the purpose of extracting and separating fluids from the solid foodstuffs in order to reuse the fluids for creating similar food preparations in multiple layers; or, so the container may be inverted, thereby permitting the fluid to drain from the container vessel while keeping the solid inside the container after the vessel is inverted

1 ) A cylindrical shaft vessel whereas;
 helical grooves on its inward facing surface of the annular wall, with an enclosed bottom on the lower annular end;   and,   opens upwards in an axial orientation;   and,   an upper annular projecting edge, of which has an elongated flange mating with a corresponding furrow of a gasket affixed to the lid;   and,   a corresponding disc with pluralities of holes;   whereas;   the disc is inserted in said cylindrical shaft where the major surface of said corresponding disc is transverse to the axial direction of the shaft vessel rotatable with respect to the transverse axis of the shaft vessel where the edge of the disc is interlocked inside the helical groove, gripping by the user's hand on the disc grip to exert rotational force on the disc in the helical groove progressing the disc downward towards the enclosed bottom of the cylindrical shaft, thereby pressing solid matter lower in density than the fluid, thus permitting fluid to pass through the holes of the disc preventing the solid matter from free floating in the fluid of said vessel.   
   
   
       2 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the height of each rib ranges in percentage of the cylindrical diameter of the vessel from 1% to 3%. 
   
   
       3 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the angle rage from 5 to 10 degrees; whereby, the spacing between the disc and said helical groove has a gap of 0.7% gap of the total diameter of the annular wall;
 and,   the helical groove protrudes 4% to 5% from the diameter of annular wall towards the center of the vessel providing space for the lid to permit fluid to flow through the helical groove to enable a loose fitting without slippage from the upward pressure of the floating solid matter immersed in fluid.   
   
   
       4 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the materials of construction is polypropylene. 
   
   
       5 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the materials of construction is wood. 
   
   
       6 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the materials of construction is tin. 
   
   
       7 ) The cylindrical shaft vessel from  claim 1 ; where the materials of construction is glass.