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Sauce bottles, and other vital additions to a good spread of food, can clutter up a busy table at meal time, but with Bungee Condiments this is no longer a problem.
You simply attach the rotating frame to the ceiling directly above the table. The adjustable bungees hang like suspenders from a garter
belt, each one terminating in a gripping clamp, which holds the condiment bottle in place. This can be either upside down, ready to have its contents squeezed out, or with a swivel apparatus, to keep the container upright.
The frame is motorised so that it slowly rotates, but stops the instant that one of its hanging bottles is pulled down.
Now when you want some sauce, you just reach up, and pull down the appropriate sauce towards your plate. As a bonus, the bouncing bottles ensure that their contents never "settle"
http://www.indiamar...pring-balancer.html
[outloud, Nov 25 2009]
Blitz Barbeque
Blitz_20Barbeque
Awesome [8th of 7, Nov 27 2009]
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I like it! Very similar to how auto mechanics at the oil change facility have an array of fluids and compressed air within arms reach. |
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(marked-for-deletion) a stupid idea I no longer like. |
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If that is not on the official list of reasons-to-m-f-d then it must be added pronto. |
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Light duty versions of "spring balancers" would be an improvement on bungees. Manufactured for industrial ergonomic use. Less resistance to the user while hovering container over the meal, and dampened retraction is less likely to promote ceiling decorations with said condiment following each release (a real bonus where alcohol may be served). -link- |
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...just noticed one of those unintentionally funny, made in India/China mis-translations. Look at the text accompanying the image under "industrial spring balancers". |
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The fifth bullet highlights the... "Convalescent snap type clip" |
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Would that be a "convenient" clip, or meant to indicate some retirement home application for these things? |
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Should call this the "lazy xenzag". |
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It's true. It's a lazy idea and it will be gone by tomorrow. |
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This would also be a splendid addition to the props in any future Jackie Chan restaurant fight scene. |
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Grrrr... now it has to stay and I don't like it anymore. |
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We have saved this in our archives and if you delete it we will re-post it. |
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Because we like this idea a LOT. Especially if it could be combined with a multi-bladed paddle fan (speed limited) and an RF remote control . |
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We are going to try and Bake this. |
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hang it low enough and you can put lights on the underside, like those low-hanging lights for pool tables. |
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//It's true. It's a lazy idea and it will be gone by tomorrow.// |
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Nono, you misundertand me my good fellow. I like this idea, my anno was a naming suggestion. The contraption is kind of like a lazy suzan, but upside down. |
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Surely a lazy uesns then? |
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[xenzag], to save me posting this idea for real, but in order to get it out of my system, do you mind if I park it here? |
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Budgie Condiments (+99, -1)
Grind (no not budgies!!) sunflower seeds and make sauce from them.
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Poor Budgies have to eat dry unpalatable foods, make sauces for them to add to their seeds and make them happier. |
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Ha - excellent....love the name. |
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sweet, but you should make it bigger and put ninjas on it. such a mobile is sure to put any baby to sleep, as well as take care of any of your evil nemesises (nemesi?) |
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I think that an upside-down version of this would be quite handy also. Particularly for accessing the last few splats of sauce from your sauce bottle (this is a theme that I seem to be obsessing on at the moment). Use a handcrank and ratchet (in a sort of medieval crossbow stylee) to wind the sauce bottle into position and then release to fire the bottle down towards your meal. The bungees arrest the downward progress of the bottle at an appropriate height (about four feet above the table surface should provide for a good dispersion pattern, I feel) leaving the saucey contents to travel elegantly downward towards your meal whilst the bottle recoils back towards the ceiling. |
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Did any one else have one of those light fixtures
over their dining room table, in the 60's, that was
on a cord that made it so you could lower and
raise it? Well we did. |
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Your condiments would be a handy attachment to
this. Just have them attached to the rim of the
light fixture, and when the light is lowered for the
meal, the condiments would be within reach so
one could grasp them and pull down on their cord.
Then with a little gentle pressure, up, up and
away. |
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Perfect for big ketchuppy meals. + |
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+++ I love it +++please don't delete or I will have to put a bungee on it to bring it back!! |
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I must be going mad, I'm reading a HB idea thinking "you know, this could really work, it really really could". |
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IT WORKS ! IT WORKS ! MUHWHAHAHAHAHAHA ! YOU FOOLS, WE'LL CRUSH YOU ALL ! |
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Yes, it does work, and it's genuinely useful. A mixture of springy keychains and those key belt reels allow condimentation apparatus (salt, pepper, brown sauce, ketchup, mayo, vinegar etc.) to be effectively suspended from a paddle fan. |
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We declare this idea Baked, and much more successful than the infamous "Blitz Barbeque" (q.v.) <link> |
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No, it's more about space saving. |
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... only if you don't replace the lids. |
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//WE'LL CRUSH YOU ALL ! // |
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... not if your bungee's too short. |
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