Set of dishware

Abstract

A set of dishware (the “set”) includes a bowl, a plate, a half-container, and two quarter-containers. The set may be in a stacked-configuration or an unstacked-configuration. The stacked-configuration facilitates easy transportation of the entire set as a single assembly making the set desirable for use by commuters. While in the stacked-configuration, there is a watertight seal between the bowl and the plate by use of a plate-skirt, most of the plate resides within the bowl, the half-container and the two quarter-containers reside on top of the plate, an overall-lid is on top of the half-container and the two quarter-containers, a removable elastic-band wraps around the overall-lid and the bowl to help maintain the stacked-configuration, and the plate along with the plate-skirt help to thermally insulate the bowl from the half-container and from the two quarter-containers. The quarter-containers are sealable by quarter-lids.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A set of dishware comprising:
 at least seven different types of parts of an elastic-band, an overall-lid, a quarter-lid, a quarter-container, a half-container, a plate, and a bowl;   wherein the set of dishware is configured to be arranged into two different configurations, a stacked-configuration and an unstacked-configuration;   wherein in the stacked-configuration a majority of the plate resides within the bowl, the quarter-container and the half-container reside on top of the plate, the quarter-lid seals the quarter-container, the overall-lid is on top of the quarter-lid and the half-container, and the elastic-band wraps around both the overall-lid and the bowl, removably pressing the overall-lid and the bowl towards each other;   wherein in the unstacked-configuration the at least seven different types of parts are not touching each other.   
     
     
         2 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the elastic-band is at least substantially made from at least one elastomeric material. 
     
     
         3 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the elastic-band resembles a capital letter “D” without serifs on a stem of the capital letter “D” when the elastic-band is not being deformed and when the elastic band is viewed from a front view or a rear view. 
     
     
         4 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the overall-lid comprises a channel on a top of the overall-lid that is configured to removably receive a top portion of the elastic-band during the stacked-configuration. 
     
     
         5 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the set of dishware comprises a quantity of two of the quarter-container. 
     
     
         6 . The set of dishware according to  claim 5 , wherein when the set of dishware is in the stacked-configuration, both of the two quarter-containers are arranged side by side, such that bottoms of both of the two quarter-containers reside on a common plane. 
     
     
         7 . The set of dishware according to  claim 6 , wherein the common plane is a top surface of a bottom of the plate. 
     
     
         8 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the quarter-container and/or the quarter-lid have an exterior shape when viewed from a top view or a bottom view that resembles a quarter of a circle. 
     
     
         9 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the half-container has an exterior shape when viewed from a top view or a bottom view that resembles a half of a circle. 
     
     
         10 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein when the set of dishware is in the stacked-configuration, a portion of the overall-lid covers over the half-container but the overall-lid does not physically touch the half-container, when the set of dishware is resting upon a substantially horizontal surface. 
     
     
         11 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein when the set of dishware is in the stacked-configuration, the quarter-container and the half-container are arranged side by side, such that a bottom of the quarter-container and a bottom of the half-container reside on a common plane. 
     
     
         12 . The set of dishware according to  claim 11 , wherein the common plane is a top surface of a bottom of the plate. 
     
     
         13 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the plate has an exterior shape when viewed from a top view or a bottom view that resembles a circle. 
     
     
         14 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the set of dishware further comprises another different type of part, a skirt; wherein the skirt is an elastomeric hollow annular ring that is configured to removably link the plate to the bowl in the stacked-configuration, such that there is a removable watertight seal between an inside mating surface of the bowl and outside diameters of the skirt in the stacked-configuration; wherein an outside diameter portion of the plate removably resides within an inside diameter portion of the skirt. 
     
     
         15 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the plate comprises two annular flanges running around an outside periphery of the plate and separated from each other by a gap; wherein the gap is configured to removably receive an inside diameter portion of a skirt; wherein the set of dishware further comprises another different type of part, the skirt. 
     
     
         16 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the bowl is at least substantially constructed from a ceramic. 
     
     
         17 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the set of dishware further comprises another different type of part, a cover-for-bowl; wherein the cover-for-bowl is an elastomeric bowl-shaped member that is configured to fit around at least a majority of an exterior of the bowl. 
     
     
         18 . The set of dishware according to  claim 17 , wherein the cover-for-bowl comprises threading; wherein the overall-lid comprises other threading; wherein in the stacked-configuration the threading of the cover-for-bowl removably threads to the other threading of the overall-lid, forming a removable union between the overall-lid and the cover-for-bowl; wherein the elastic-band wraps around this removable union in the stacked-configuration and a remainder of the at least seven different types of parts, aside from the overall-lid and the elastic-band, are all located within this removable union. 
     
     
         19 . The set of dishware according to  claim 1 , wherein the plate is configured to thermally insulate the bowl from the quarter-container and from the half-container when the set of dishware is in the stacked-configuration.