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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 PIN

Applicant:
Elephant Design Private Limited
A company Incorporated in India under the Companies Act, 1956
Having address:
13, Kumar Srushti, S. 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 201621018134 filed on May 26, 2016.

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

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 & 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 rolling pin has remained till today in their traditional forms and materials. Though different types of rolling pin are available such as a wooden pin, a metal pin, or a Ribbed textured rolling pin. The wooden pin or the metal pin allows the kneaded dough to stick to the surface of the rolling pin during rolling. This causes the user to keep peeling the flattened dough so as to continue the rolling. In order to roll, the dough requires to be rotated on a rolling surface by applying unequal pressure on the rolling pin. This can cause the shape and thickness of the dough to suffer. The textured pin, on the other hand, is difficult to clean and prevent the dough from sliding and/or turning which is essential during the rolling process. In addition, sticking of the flattened dough to the rolling pin causes the user to stall 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 pin 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 pin is disclosed. The textured rolling pin avoids sticking of dough during rolling process. The textured rolling pin comprises a hollow cylindrical surface comprising a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples to retain a predefined quantity of a powdery material inside a shallow pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimple. It may be understood that a dimple indicates a dent or a depression capable of keeping a predefined quantity of the powdery material. The plurality of ultra-shallow dimples is spread across the hollow cylindrical surface of the textured rolling pin. The textured rolling pin further comprises two palm rests comprising a left palm rest and a right palm rest. In one aspect, the two palm rests are located on either side of hollow cylindrical surface. In one aspect, the textured surface on the rolling pin also allows for harder dough’s to be rolled easily as the dimpled texture acts to provide appropriate kneading pressure required for keeping the dough soft.

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 textured rolling pin, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
[0010] Figure 2 illustrates a manufacturing process of the textured rolling pin, 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] As it is commonly known, kneading is a process in the making of Roti, Bread or pasta dough to mix the ingredients and add strength to the final product. Its importance lies in the mixing of flour powder with water. When these two ingredients (i.e. flour powder and water) are combined and kneaded, the gliadin and glutenin proteins in the flour powder expand and form strands of gluten, which provides texture to the Roti, Bread or pasta dough. The kneading process warms and stretches these gluten strands, eventually creating springy and elastic dough. Traditionally kneading process is performed by bare hands which is time taking and laborious. The present subject matter discloses a textured rolling pin to reduce the human efforts in the kneading process. By using a textured rolling pin, the kneading process becomes easier and hygienic.
[0015] In one implementation, the textured rolling pin comprises a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples spread across the rolling surface of the textured rolling pin. It may be understood that a dimple indicates a dent or a depression capable of keeping a predefined quantity of the powdery material. The textured rolling pin avoids sticking of dough during rolling. In one aspect, the texture on the rolling pin also allows for harder dough’s to be rolled easily as the dimpled texture works for kneading purpose. Referring to figure 1, as illustrated, the textured rolling pin 102 is a cylindrical shape object having a hollow cylindrical surface 102. The hollow cylindrical surface 102 further comprises a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 spread across the hollow cylindrical surface 102. It may be understood that each ultra-shallow dimple 104 is having equal dimensions. In one example, the dimension of the dimple104 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 dimple104, are predefined. The textured rolling pin 102 further comprises two palm rests comprising a left palm rest 106 and a right palm rest 108. The two palm rests are located on either side of hollow cylindrical surface 102.
[0016] In one aspect, the hollow cylindrical surface 102 of the textured rolling pin 102 may be made by using a stainless steel and an Aluminum (Al) coated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Example of the stainless steel may include, but not limited to, Aluminum (Al). It may be understood that the hollow cylindrical surface 102 may be coated with at least one non-stick coating material. Examples of the at least one non-stick coating material may include, but not limited to, Food Grade Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Perfluoroalkoxy alkane (PFA), and Fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) which have inherent non-stick properties. It may further be understood that the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 spread across the hollow cylindrical surface 102 in various patterns. In one example, the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 may be distributed densely around the center of the hollow cylindrical surface 102. In another example, the plurality of ultra-shallow dimples 104 are distributed evenly throughout the hollow cylindrical surface 102 of the textured rolling pin 102.
[0017] In one embodiment, the textured rolling pin 102 may further be assembled with a hanging plug 110 for hanging the textured rolling pin 102.
[0018] Referring to figure 2, a manufacturing process of the textured rolling pin 102 is shown. At step, 1, two hollow cylindrical objects (i.e. a left hollow cylindrical object 202 and a right hollow cylindrical object 204) are molded by using a die casting process. Each hollow cylindrical object comprises a rolling part (referred to as the hollow cylindrical surface 102) and a palm rest. In one aspect, the rolling part are made up of Aluminum (Al) and having the ultra-shallow dimples 104 spread across the rolling part of both the left hollow cylindrical object 202 and the right hollow cylindrical object 204. It may be understood that the left hollow cylindrical object 202 comprises the left palm rest 106 whereas the right hollow cylindrical object 204 comprises a right palm rest 108.
[0019] At step 2, both the left hollow cylindrical object 202 and the right hollow cylindrical object 204 are fixed together. In one aspect, the left hollow cylindrical object 202 and the right hollow cylindrical object 204 are fixed together by at least one of a welding method and a fastening mechanism, as shown in step 206.
[0020] At step 3, the textured rolling pin 102 is then coated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Thus, in this manner, the textured rolling pin 102 is manufactured and accordingly being used to avoid sticking of dough during rolling process.
[0021] 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.
[0022] Some embodiments of an apparatus to avoid sticking of dough during rolling and provides superior dough release.
[0023] Some embodiments of an apparatus to improve hygiene due to anti-bacterial properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) commonly known as Teflon coating.
[0024] Although implementations of textured rolling pin 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 pin (102) comprising:
a hollow cylindrical surface (102) comprising a plurality of ultra-shallow dimples (104) to retain a predefined quantity of a powdery material inside a shallow pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimple; and
two palm rests comprising a left palm rest (106) and a right palm rest (108), wherein the two palm rests are located on either side of hollow cylindrical surface (102).

2. The textured rolling pin (102) of claim 1, wherein the surface (102) comprises a left hollow cylindrical object (202) and a right hollow cylindrical object (204), and wherein the left hollow cylindrical object (202) and the right hollow cylindrical object (204) are fixed by at least one of a welding method and a fastening mechanism.

3. The textured rolling pin (102) of claim 1, wherein the hollow cylindrical surface (102) is made by using a stainless steel and an Aluminum (Al) coated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).

4. The textured rolling pin (102) of claim 2, wherein the hollow cylindrical surface (102) is coated with at least one non-stick coating material.

5. The textured rolling pin (102) 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).

6. The textured rolling pin (102) of claim 1, wherein dimension pertaining to each ultra-shallow dimple (104) is predefined, and wherein the dimension comprises a diameter and a depth.