Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Confining – conforming or molding support
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-12
2001-08-14
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Confining, conforming or molding support
C099S383000, C099S448000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06272978
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a cone cupcake baker and more particularly pertains to baking ice cream cone cupcakes while also providing storage and carrying units for the prepared cupcakes.
Description of the Prior Art
The use of baking racks and utensils of a wide variety of designs and configurations is known in the prior art. More specifically, baking racks and utensils of a wide variety of designs and configurations heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of baking cupcakes and other sweets through various methods and apparatuses are known to consist basically of familiar, expected, and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which has been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
By way of example, the prior art discloses in U.S. Pat. No. 3,590,728 a cone pan or mold.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,380,190 discloses one type of a cooking cone.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,583,955 discloses a cupcake holder.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,817,513 discloses one type of a cone baker.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,450,785 discloses a cone cupcake baker.
U.S. Pat. No. Des. 291,620 discloses the design of an ice cream cone holder.
In this respect, the cone cupcake baker according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of baking ice cream cone cupcakes while also providing storage and carrying units for the prepared cupcakes.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved cone cupcake baker which can be used to bake ice cream cone cupcakes while also providing storage and carrying units for the prepared cupcakes. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of baking racks and utensils of a wide variety of designs and configurations now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved cone cupcake baker. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a new and improved cone cupcake baker comprising, in combination, a housing having large parallel front and rear walls in a rectangular configuration with long horizontal edges and short vertical edges, the housing having essentially square shaped side panels with horizontal edges and vertical edges coupled to the vertical edges of the front and rear panels, a support plate of a rectangular configuration in a horizontal orientation is positioned within the walls adjacent to the upper edges thereof, the support plate having two rows of apertures with six apertures in each row, the apertures adapted to support ice cream cones with the base of each ice cream cone spaced separately from the lower edges of the panels; support rods extending outwardly from the side, front and rear panels and extending downwardly therefrom to a common elevational orientation beneath the lower edges of the panels; horizontal handles positioned on the side panels adjacent to the upper edges thereof, the handles extending outwardly to an extent greater than the lateral positioning of the lower supports; and a lid of a transparent elastomeric material having an upper rectangular plate of a size essentially to that of the housing and with downwardly extending front, rear and side plates in a rectangular configuration to cover the upper surface of the housing, the lower edges of the vertical plates extending outwardly and downwardly for positioning over the upper edges of the housing with a resilient locking assembly between the lid and the housing.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent of legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker which has all the advantages of the prior art baking racks and utensils of a wide variety of designs and configurations and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such cone cupcake baker economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved cone cupcake baker which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to bake ice cream cone cupcakes while also providing storage and carrying units for the prepared cupcakes.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide new and improved cone cupcake baker comprising a housing having large parallel front and rear walls in a rectangular configuration with long horizontal edges and short vertical edges, the housing having essentially square shaped side panels with horizontal edges and vertical edges coupled to the vertical edges of the front and rear panels, a support plate or a rectangular configuration in a horizontal orientation positioned within the walls adjacent to the upper edges thereof, the support plate having a plurality of rows of apertures with a plurality of apertures in each row, the apertures adapted to support objects with their bases spaced separately from the lower edges of the pane
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