Tableware device for efficient consumption of cookies and milk

Abstract

A tableware vessel is provided that significantly improves the time efficiency of eating cookies and milk when the user desires the cookies to be thoroughly soaked in the milk. The vessel is elongated to permit simultaneous side-by-side soaking of multiple cookies. A uniquely configured sloped floor allows the volume of milk to be limited to the quantity desired by the user. The sloped floor guides the cookies from one end of the vessel to the other as they soak. The user can then remove each thoroughly soaked cookie, in sequence, from the scooping end of the vessel, where the floor is lowest.

I claim: 
     
         1 . An article of tableware comprising:
 a level floor which is essentially level and is sized to accommodate a food item of specific size;   a sloped floor joining said level floor at one edge of said level floor, sloping upward from said level floor, and having a width which accommodates one sample of said food item; and   a wall rising up from said level floor, bordering said level floor except where said level floor joins with said sloped floor, said wall continuing to border on each side of said sloped floor such that said level floor, said sloped floor and said wall form a vessel body;   wherein the horizontal run and vertical rise of said sloped floor allow said vessel body to accommodate at least two of said food item and give said vessel body a volume suitable for a desired quantity of fluid plus the accommodated number of said food items.   
     
     
         2 . The article of claim ( 1 ), further comprising a support structure beneath said sloped floor which stabilizes said vessel body and maintains said level floor and said sloped floor in their level and sloped orientations, respectively. 
     
     
         3 . The article of claim ( 1 ), further comprising means for stacking said article, one upon another. 
     
     
         4 . The article of claim ( 1 ), wherein said wall has a rim and said vessel body has an entry end at which said sloped floor is flush with said rim. 
     
     
         5 . A tableware item comprising a containment means for soaking a plurality of a food item of specific size in a desired quantity of fluid and a sloping means for introducing said food item and for channeling said food item in sequence, while soaking, to a particular location of said containment means whereat said food item may be conveniently extracted, in sequence, for personal consumption;
 wherein said tableware item simultaneously soaks two or more or said food items when containing said desired quantity of fluid and reduces its soaking capacity as the fluid level reduces, such that only said particular location can contain a soaking food item as the last of said fluid is soaked up.   
     
     
         6 . A method of soaking in fluid and consuming a plurality of a food item of specific size, comprising:
 pouring a desired quantity of fluid into a vessel having a width that accommodates said food item, a length that accommodates two or more said food items, a floor which is essentially level at one end, the soaking end, and slopes from near that end to meet the other end, the entry end, at or near the top of the vessel, the vessel defining a volume to contain the desired quantity of fluid and two of said food items;   placing into said fluid one of said food item;   placing into said fluid from said entry end another of said food item;   placing into said fluid from said entry end, as fluid quantity allows, additional said food items,   guiding in sequence with a utensil, as necessary, each soaking food item to said soaking end; and   removing with said utensil from said soaking end each food item and eating it.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6  wherein the food item is a cookie.