Combination cooking rack and pan assembly
AssigneeEnsar Corporation
InventorCarl R. Fletcher
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A combination cooking rack and aluminum foil pan assembly. The rack comprises wire segments for supporting a food item to be cooked. The wire segments define a planar array and are disposed above the pan base. The rack includes a pair of oppositely disposed handles, including a hand grip overlying the pan rim and a clamp below the pan rim for clamping the rim therebetween. The clamp is movable to a retracted position for assembly of the pan to the cooking rack and for detaching the rack from the pan.
Claims18
A combination cooking rack and pan assembly, and wherein said cooking rack supports an item to be cooked thereon during cooking and suspends said pan by its rim,
- said pan comprising a base, a side wall extending upwardly from the base and a peripheral rim extending outwardly from the side wall,
- said cooking rack comprising
- a plurality of wire segments overlying said pan base and together defining a generally planar array for directly supporting an item to be cooked thereon,
- a pair of handle means, each secured to said planar array at opposite sides of said array,
- each said handle means comprising a hand grip portion and a clamping portion movable relative to said hand grip portion between a first position in which said hand grip portion and said clamping portion grip said pan rim at said opposite sides, and a second position in which said pan rim is readily assembleable to said cooking rack.
A cooking rack for supporting an item to be cooked thereon during cooking and for suspending by its rim a pan comprising a base, a side wall extending upwardly from the base and a peripheral rim extending outwardly from the side wall,
- said cooking rack comprising
- a plurality of wire segments for overlying a pan base and together defining a generally planar array for directly supporting an item to be cooked thereon,
- a pair of handle means, each secured to said planar array at opposite sides of said array,
- each said handle means comprising a hand grip portion and a clamping portion movable relative to said hand grip portion between a first position in which said hand grip portion and said clamping portion are adapted to grip a pan rim at said opposite sides, and a second position in which a pan rim is readily assembleable to said cooking rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.