Pan with handles
AssigneeHandi-Foil Corporation
InventorsNorton Sarnoff, Raj Patel
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Abstract
An assembly having a pan and a formed wire rack for receiving and supporting the pan. the rack includes a pair of handles freely and rotatably attached to a closed rim-rack section of the wire rack. Each handle includes a lateral portion and a pair of arms having first arm ends attached to the lateral portion, and the pair of arms having second arm ends separately terminating to a flat section, distal ends of the flat sections being rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section, and wherein the flat sections include loops freely rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section.
Claims9
An assembly comprising:
- a pan having a well defined by a bottom wall and a continuous upstanding sidewall extending from an edge of the bottom wall, the upstanding sidewall terminating at an outwardly formed rim;
- a formed wire rack for receiving and supporting the pan, the rack includes:
- a pair of parallel wire members, each wire member having an elongated wire form section terminating at opposite ends in first upwardly extending portions, the first upwardly extending portions further turn toward each other and are joined to form a closed rim-rack section defined to be underneath and support the rim of the pan;
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- a second elongated wire form member transverse to the pair of parallel wire members, the second elongated wire form member terminating at opposite ends in second upwardly extending portions, the second upwardly extending portions further include rim engaging member;
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- a pair of handles freely rotatably attached to the closed rim-rack section, and each handle having a lateral portion, and a pair of arms having first arm ends attached to the lateral portion, and the pair of arms having second arm ends separately terminating to a flat section, each flat section terminates to a loop freely rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section, and wherein the handles have an upright position defined by having the pair of arms extending away from the pan such that the lateral portion is configured to a position above the outwardly formed rim of the pan and the handles rotatable to a resting position defined against the continuous upstanding sidewall of the pan such that the flat sections of each handle is structurally configured to cause the lateral portion to rest substantially against the continuous upstanding sidewall of the pan such that the assembly is configured to nest inside the well of a second assembly similarly defined without having the handles obstruct the assembly being nested.
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An assembly comprising:
- a pan having a well defined by a bottom wall and a continuous upstanding sidewall extending from an edge of the bottom wall, the upstanding sidewall terminating at an outwardly formed rim;
- a formed wire rack for receiving and supporting the pan, the rack includes:
- a pair of parallel wire members, each wire member having an elongated wire form section terminating at opposite ends in first upwardly extending portions, the first upwardly extending portions further turn toward each other and are joined to form a closed rim-rack section defined to be underneath and support the rim of the pan;
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- a second elongated wire form member transverse to the pair of parallel wire members, the second elongated wire form member terminating at opposite ends in second upwardly extending portions, the second upwardly extending portions further include rim engaging member;
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- a pair of handles freely rotatably attached to the closed rim-rack section, wherein each handle includes a lateral portion and a pair of arms having first arm ends attached to the lateral portion, and the pair of arms having second arm ends separately terminating to a flat section, distal ends of the flat sections being rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section, and wherein the flat sections include loops freely rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section, and wherein the lateral portion has a predetermined distance configured to separate the arms from each other at a distance that is shorter than a distance defined between the first and second upwardly extending portions such that the arms rest between the first and second upwardly extending portions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.