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US 4,069,772 AGranted
Tier support system for fancy cakes
OwnerRay Haapalainventor
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Abstract
Pallets are supported in spaced relation above and upon one another to provide level tiers, to relieve cake lower tiers from the load of superior tiers, and to permit individual rotation of tiers to co-ordinate decorations.
Claims1
In a knock-down pallet support system for multi-tiered cakes,
- a first flat pallet having a central hole and a plurality of radially spaced angularly disposed holes therethrough,
- a spike having a lower end removably engageable in said central hole and having a shank extending upwardly from the upper surface of said first pallet,
- a plurality of leg members adapted to support said first pallet spaced above a horizontal supporting surface, each leg member having
- a neck for engaging through one of said other holes,
- an enlarged collar below the neck for engaging against the under side of said first pallet,
- an enlarged head removably engaged on the upper end of the neck for holding the first pallet between the collar and head and providing a bearing for a superior pallet, and a shank depending from the collar and having a lower free end for resting on said supporting surface,
- and a second flat pallet disposed above and rotatably supported by the first flat pallet, said second flat pallet having
- a central hole adapted to rotatably accommodate the shank of the spike and
- a lower surface adapted to slidably rest upon the heads of said leg members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.