DESC:
FORM 2

THE PATENTS ACT, 1970
(39 of 1970)
&
THE PATENT RULES, 2003

COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
(See Section 10 and Rule 13)

Title of invention:
DIMPLE TEXTURED ROLLING BASE

Applicant:
Elephant Design Private Limited
A company Incorporated in India under the Companies Act, 1956
Having address:
13, Kumar Srushti Survey No. 1, Pashan, NDA Road, Bavdhan,
Pune 411 021, Maharashtra, India

The following specification describes the invention and the manner in which it is to be performed.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[001] This patent application claims priority from an Indian provisional application number 201621018133 filed on May 26, 2016.

TECHNICAL FIELD
[002] The present disclosure described herein, in general, relates to a rolling base, more specifically with a dimpled texture on a top surface of the rolling base.

BACKGROUND
[003] Last few years have seen the retail and consumerism go into an overdrive. Smart Television, Smart Air Conditioners, Smart refrigerators, Smart phones, Tablets have democratized the buying behavior amongst the consumers throughout the world. Influenced by such home appliances, of late consumers are also looking for modern kitchen appliances that prevent the drudgery of cleaning the sticky and oily mess of traditional cooking at the same time increase awareness of healthy cooking. Consumers especially house wives have limited time availability for cooking chores and are constantly looking for smart kitchen aids that save effort and time. This has increased the demand amongst the consumers for using non-stick coated cooking aids.
[004] While there is transformation seen in the use of cooking vessels like pans and pots, which have readily adopted non-stick surface coating, other traditional cooking aids like a rolling base has remained till today in their traditional forms and materials. Though different types of rolling base are available such as a wooden base or a metal base but such rolling base requires frequent sprinkling of powdery material such as flour through the rolling process at regular intervals to prevent unwanted sticking of dough with the rolling base. This requires keep peeling the flattened, stuck dough, so as to continue the rolling. In addition, sticking of the flattened dough to the rolling base causes the user to stop the rolling process. Thus, it becomes a cumbersome process for flattening the dough as it wastes a lot of time and also consumes user’s physical effort.

SUMMARY
[005] Before the present apparatuses and methods, are described, it is to be understood that this application is not limited to the particular apparatuses, and methodologies described, as there can be multiple possible embodiments which are not expressly illustrated in the present disclosures. It is also to be understood that the terminology used in the description is for the purpose of describing the particular versions or embodiments only, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application. This summary is provided to introduce concepts related to a textured rolling base and the concepts are further described below in the detailed description. This summary is not intended to identify essential features of the disclosure nor is it intended for use in determining or limiting the scope of the disclosure.
[006] In one implementation, a textured rolling base is disclosed. The textured rolling base facilitates to avoid sticking of dough during rolling and provides superior dough release by reducing need of sprinkling of additional powdery material such as flour during rolling. The textured rolling base comprises a surface comprising a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples to keep a predefined quantity of a powdery material inside a shallow pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimples. It may be understood that a dimple indicates a dent or a depression capable of keeping a predefined quantity of the powdery material. In one aspect, each ultra-shallow dimples may also be referred to as flour reservoirs, or interchangeably referred to as powder reservoir throughout the specification, for keeping the powdery material inside the flour reservoirs. By creating the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples, a predefined quantity of the powdery material (such as flour powder) is kept inside the flour reservoirs spread across the textured rolling base. The flour powder kept in the flour reservoirs avoids creation of flour clumps and also requires less flour while flattening the dough through rolling process. This provision also makes less powdery mess around the rolling base while making roti’s (Thin Indian Bread and similar rolled dough products). In addition to the surface with the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples, the textured rolling base further comprises at least one leg coupled with the surface in order to provide better stability while rolling the dough on the surface.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[007] The foregoing detailed description of embodiments is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawing. For the purpose of illustrating the disclosure, there is shown in the present document example constructions of the disclosure; however, the disclosure is not limited to the specific methods and apparatus disclosed in the document and the drawings.
[008] The detailed description is described with reference to the accompanying figure. In the figure, the left-most digit(s) of a reference number identifies the figure in which the reference number first appears. The same numbers are used throughout the drawings to refer like features and components.
[009] Figure 1 illustrates a top view of the textured rolling base, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
[0010] Figure 2 illustrates a side view of the textured rolling base, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
[0011] The figure depicts an embodiment of the present disclosure for purposes of illustration only. One skilled in the art will readily recognize from the following discussion that alternative embodiments of the structures and methods illustrated herein may be employed without departing from the principles of the disclosure described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0012] Some embodiments of this disclosure, illustrating all its features, will now be discussed in detail. The words "comprising," "having," "containing," and "including," and other forms thereof, are intended to be equivalent in meaning and be open ended in that an item or items following any one of these words is not meant to be an exhaustive listing of such item or items, or meant to be limited to only the listed item or items. It must also be noted that, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" include plural references unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Although any apparatuses and methods similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used in the practice or testing of embodiments of the present disclosure, the exemplary, apparatuses and methods are now described. The disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of the disclosure, which may be embodied in various forms.
[0013] Various modifications to the embodiment will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art and the generic principles herein may be applied to other embodiments. However, one of ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the embodiments illustrated, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features described herein.
[0014] In order to flatten the dough using a rolling base and a rolling pin, traditionally dry flour is repeatedly sprinkled generously to make the dough surface non-sticky. The dry flour forms uneven spread of clumps of powder on the surface of the rolling base. The dry flour acts as a separator and a rolling layer between the dough and the rolling base. In order to avoid the repeatedly sprinkling of the dry flour, a textured rolling base is disclosed. The textured rolling base comprises an array of ultra-shallow dimples or dimples spread across top surface, of the textured rolling base in various patterns, hereinafter also referred to as a friction surface. It may be understood that a dimple indicates a dent or a depression capable of keeping a predefined quantity of the powdery material.
[0015] In one aspect, the array of ultra-shallow dimples, artificially distributed on the friction surface, act as powder reservoirs for keeping a powdery material such as flour and help to promote the retention of a powder film between the dough and the rolling base. It may be understood that a predefined quantity of the powdery material is kept inside the powder reservoirs and the array helps in creating an even presence of numerous powder reservoirs across the surface of the rolling base top. Examples of the powdery material may include, but not limited to, flour powder and Semolina powder.
[0016] The powdery material kept inside the powder reservoirs transfers to the dough being rolled in an even manner, appropriate quantity in order to avoid creation of clumps. The powdery material further facilitates to avoid repeated sprinkling of dry flour required while flattening the dough with a rolling pin to prevent sticking of the dough with the rolling base. By adopting the textured rolling base, low spill of flour over sides due to flour getting retained in the powder reservoirs. This result in less caking of dry flour on the rolled dough resulting in better surface baking of the rolled dough over heat or fire. The textured pattern also allows for harder dough’s to be rolled easily as the textured pattern acts to provide kneading texture to the harder dough.
[0017] Referring to figure 1, a top view of the textured rolling base 100 is shown. The textured rolling base 100 comprises the surface 102 for rolling the dough with a rolling pin (not shown in the figure). In one aspect, the surface 102 may be made of a stainless steel coated with a non-stick coating material. Examples of the non-stick coating material may include, but not limited to, Food Grade Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Perfluoroalkoxy alkane (PFA), and Fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP). As illustrated, the surface 102 comprises a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 (flour reservoir 104, or powder reservoir 104) spread across the surface 102. It may be understood that the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 may spread across the surface 102 in various patterns. In one example, the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 are distributed densely around the center of the textured rolling base 100. In another example, the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 are distributed evenly throughout the surface 102 of the textured rolling base 100.
[0018] It may be understood that each ultra-shallow dimple104 is having equal dimensions. In one example, the dimension of the dimple 104 may vary from the center of the surface 102 towards the perimeter of the surface 102. In one aspect, the dimensions, include a diameter and a depth of the ultra-shallow dimple 104, are predefined. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the textured rolling base 100 comprises four legs 106-1, 106-2,106-4 mechanically coupled with the surface 102 for providing better stability. In one embodiment, the four legs 106-1, 106-2,106-4 may be welded or fastened using fastening mechanism with the surface 102.
[0019] Referring to figure 2, a side view of the textured rolling base 100 is shown. The textured rolling base 100 comprises the surface 102 for rolling the dough with a rolling pin (not shown in the figure). In an exemplary embodiment, the surface 102 may be made of a stainless steel or aluminum material coated with a non-stick coating material. In an exemplary embodiment, the thickness of the surface 102 is made of Aluminum (Al) sheet coated with PTFE and having a thickness of 3mm. In one embodiment, the textured rolling base 100 may further have at least one leg as an integral part of the rolling base. In another embodiment, the textured rolling base 100 may comprise four legs 106-1, 106-2,106-4 mechanically coupled with the surface 102 for providing better stability. Each of the four legs 106-1, 106-2,106-4 is further bounded by a shoe 108 acting as an anti-skid component.
[0020] Exemplary embodiments discussed above may provide certain advantages. Though not required to practice aspects of the disclosure, these advantages may include those provided by the following features.
[0021] Some embodiments of a textured rolling base to avoid sticking of dough during rolling and provides superior dough release.
[0022] Some embodiments of a textured rolling base to reduce need of additional flour during flattening the dough by using a rolling pin.
[0023] Some embodiments of a textured rolling base to improve hygiene due to anti-bacterial properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) commonly known as Teflon coating.
[0024] Some embodiments of a textured rolling base facilitate to bake soft Roti’s due to less use of flour.
[0025] Although implementations of an apparatus for textured rolling base have been described in language specific to structural features and/or methods, it is to be understood that the implementations and/or embodiments are not necessarily limited to the specific features or methods described.

,CLAIMS:
1. A textured rolling base (100) comprising:
a surface (102) comprising a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples (104) to keep a predefined quantity of a powdery material inside a shallow pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimple; and
at least one leg (106) coupled with the surface (102) for providing stability while rolling the dough on the surface (102).

2. The textured rolling base (100) of claim 1, wherein the surface (102) is made by using one of a stainless steel material and an Aluminum (Al) coated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).

3. The textured rolling base (100) of claim 2, wherein the surface (102) is coated with at least one non-stick coating material.

4. The textured rolling base (100) of claim 3, wherein the at least one non-stick coating material comprises Food Grade Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Perfluoroalkoxy alkane (PFA), and Fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP).

5. The textured rolling base (100) of claim 1, wherein dimension pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimple (104) is predefined, and wherein the dimension comprises a diameter and a depth.

6. The textured rolling base (100) of claim 1, wherein the at least one leg (106) is coupled with the surface (102) by at least one of welding and fastening using a fastening mechanism.