A bowl includes non-slip means and spoon-assisted food conglomeration means. In a preferred embodiment, the bowl is transparent. Non-slip means may include a weight structure, a non-slip material affixed to the bowl bottom either substantially continuously covering the bottom or substantially disco
A bowl includes non-slip means and spoon-assisted food conglomeration means. In a preferred embodiment, the bowl is transparent. Non-slip means may include a weight structure, a non-slip material affixed to the bowl bottom either substantially continuously covering the bottom or substantially discontinuously covering the bottom. Spoon-assisted food conglomeration means may include a sloped bottom, a substantially spoon-shaped locus, a steep rim, or an inward-curving rim. The bowl may further include spillage reduction means. Spillage reduction means may include an abrupt taper terminus, a steep rim, an inward-curving rim, or a chamfered or rounded bowl vertex. Alternatively the bowl may comprise a sloped bottom terminating in a substantially spoon-shaped locus and further comprise non-slip means. In alternate embodiments the bowl may further comprise spillage reduction means or be characterized by a substantial transparent region.
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We claim: 1. A feeding system for use with an infant or a person needing assistance or for promoting the self feeding of a baby or other person with limited self feeding ability, said feeding system comprising: a bowl (2), said bowl having a recess for receiving food, said recess surrounded by at l
We claim: 1. A feeding system for use with an infant or a person needing assistance or for promoting the self feeding of a baby or other person with limited self feeding ability, said feeding system comprising: a bowl (2), said bowl having a recess for receiving food, said recess surrounded by at least one rim (23); said bowl having a sloped surface (28) forming a bottom of said recess, said sloped surface having a general slope downward toward a locus (11) for spoon assisted conglomeration of said food, said locus (11) transitioning to and proximal to said rim (23), said locus (11) forming the lowest portion of said recess for receiving said food; said rim (23) tapering in thickness toward the top of said bowl and terminating at the top of said bowl in an abrupt taper terminus (55), said abrupt taper terminus for facilitating the loading of a spoon with said food and for scraping drippings from said food from the bottom of said spoon to reduce spillage; said rim (23) converging to a chamfered or rounded interior vertex (53) proximal to and conformal to said locus (11); said interior vertex (53) having a curvature for use with a corresponding curvature of said spoon; said vertex (53) having a steep slope adjacent to and transitioning to said locus (11); said steep slope having a smooth and continuous incline for allowing said spoon continuous uninterrupted sliding contact with said rim (23) as said spoon is lifted from said locus (11) to the top of said rim (23) for loading food on said spoon; and said bowl having a non-slip (35) surface on an underside bottom (30) of said bowl (2). 2. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rim (23) includes a transparent portion sufficiently transparent for viewing said food in said bowl. 3. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said bowl (2) is sufficiently symmetrical to allow right handed or left handed spooning. 4. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rim (23) is inwardly curving (50) at the top of said rim (23) such that the rim does not overhang the bowl at the deepest portion of the recess. 5. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said non-slip surface comprises a suction cup (38). 6. The feeding system as recited in claim 5, wherein said suction cup (38) is attached with a detachable coupling (39), allowing said bowl to be detached from said suction cup during a feeding session. 7. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said locus (11) transitions from a continuous extension of said general slope of said sloped surface (28). 8. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said locus (11) forms a deeper depression than would be formed by an extension of said general slope of said sloped surface (28) to said locus (11). 9. The feeding system as recited in claim 8, wherein said depression is substantially spoon shaped. 10. The feeding system as recited in claim 1, wherein said bowl (2) includes a magnetic material (65) for improving non-slip properties of said bowl. 11. A feeding system for use with an infant or a person needing assistance or for promoting the self feeding of a baby or other person with limited self feeding ability, said feeding system comprising: a bowl (2), said bowl having a recess for receiving food, said recess surrounded by at least one rim (23); said bowl having a sloped surface (28) forming a bottom of said recess, said sloped surface having a general slope downward toward a locus (11) for spoon assisted conglomeration of said food, said locus (11) transitioning to and proximal to said rim (23), said locus (11) forming the lowest portion of said recess for receiving said food; said rim (23) converging to a chamfered or rounded interior vertex (53) proximal to and conformal to said locus (11); said interior vertex (53) having a curvature for use with a corresponding curvature of a spoon; said vertex (53) having a steep slope adjacent to and transitioning to said locus (11); said steep slope having a smooth and continuous incline for allowing said spoon continuous uninterrupted sliding contact with said rim (23) as said spoon is lifted from said locus (11) to the top of said rim (23) for loading food on said spoon; and said bowl having a non-slip (35) surface on an underside bottom (30) of said bowl (2). 12. A feeding system for use with an infant or a person needing assistance or for promoting the self feeding of a baby or other person with limited self feeding ability, said feeding system comprising: a spoon, and a bowl (2), said bowl having a recess for receiving food, said recess surrounded by at least one rim (23); said bowl having a sloped surface (28) forming a bottom of said recess, said sloped surface having a general slope downward toward a locus (11) for spoon assisted conglomeration of said food, said locus (11) transitioning to and proximal to said rim (23), said locus (11) forming the lowest portion of said recess for receiving said food; said rim (23) terminating at the top of said bowl in an abrupt taper terminus (55), said abrupt taper terminus comprising a corner between a surface of said rim sloping downward into the bowl recess and a surface of said rim (23) sloping downward to the outside of said bowl (2); said abrupt taper terminus for facilitating the loading of said spoon with said food and for scraping drippings from said food from the bottom of said spoon to reduce spillage; said rim (23) converging to a chamfered or rounded interior vertex (53) proximal to and conformal to said locus (11); said interior vertex (53) having a curvature for use with a corresponding curvature of said spoon; said spoon having a curvature corresponding to said curvature of said interior vertex; said vertex (53) having a steep slope adjacent to and transitioning to said locus (11); said steep slope having a smooth and continuous incline for allowing said spoon continuous uninterrupted sliding contact with said rim (23) as said spoon is lifted from said locus (11) to the top of said rim (23) for loading food on said spoon; and said bowl having a non-slip (35) surface on an underside bottom (30) of said bowl (2).
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