Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Confining – conforming or molding support
Reexamination Certificate
2000-11-20
2001-08-28
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Confining, conforming or molding support
C099S449000, C099S450000, C211S181100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06279467
ABSTRACT:
RELATED APPLICATIONS
Applicant has no and is not aware of any applications currently on file by others which relate to the subject matter of this application nor which should be considered during the prosecution of the same.
SPONSORSHIP
This invention is through the sole efforts of the Applicant and has not been sponsored by any Federal, Independent nor Commercial entities.
PRIOR ART
The pertinent prior art of which Applicant is aware is disclosed on the accompanying Information Disclosure Statement or its equivalent.
SHORT SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A rack for the cooling of various foodstuffs which includes a multi-tiered or layered rack structure wherein the tiers or layers slide relative to one another to provide a compact unit for storage but which expands in at least one dimension to substantially enlarge the supporting area of the unit.
The individual tiers each provide a plurality of spaced article support bars bounded by a surrounding bar or rod. A slide or interconnect arrangement is provided for linking the tiers into a contiguous unit and each of the individual tiers is provided with legs for supporting the entire unit in elevated position upon a surface. The slides allow for either limited or fill expansion of the individual tiers and the number of such tiers is selectable.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
Utilization of cooling devices such as racks for cooling of, particularly baked articles such as cakes, pastries, cookies and pies is well known in the art. Often, the person cooking the same will have such cooling racks at hand or will remove racks from the oven and place the articles thereon Often too, the person cooking will have racks that are simply devoted for the cooling of such articles. These racks are, very often, of limited size and present a storage problem when they are not in use. The structure of such racks is commonly a plurality of spaced bars upon which the food article is placed when removed from the cooking sheet or the like or a simple air passing support structure.
Applicant's invention provides an expandable rack which may find it's greatest use for cooling, that consists of at least two support racks which are slidably connected to allow expansion for use or collapsing thereof for storage.
Each of the racks provides legs for placing the entire unit on a support surface to maintain the upper or supporting surface of the rack in a relatively level position.
The sliding connection between racks allows a simple method of expanding the same to a desired length and for collapsing the same by sliding the racks together for a compact storage arrangement. The rack is also useable without expanding the same.
It is therefore an object of the Applicant's invention to provide an expandable rack for supporting various articles and which is particularly directed to supporting foodstuff, after cooking and during cooling thereof
It is a further object of the Applicant's invention to provide an expanding rack structure wherein each of at least two tiers of a rack are provided and each tier consists of a plurality of spaced support bars with certain of or additional such bars being provided to provide a sliding connection between such tiers.
These and other objects and advantages of the Applicant's invention will more fully appear from the accompanying drawings and description of a preferred form of the invention
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Cwayna James R.
Simone Timothy F.
T & L Nifty Products, Inc.
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