Caterer food display system
OwnerJ. Paul Orednickinventor
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Abstract
A disposable system provides means for caterers to transport, serve, and display food, although the system may also be used by campers, picnickers, or the like. A plurality of bent wires and plastic legs are provided in a kit form which may be assembled into a knock-down stand for supporting disposable utensils. The plastic legs are shaped to avoid marring a supporting structure. The bent wires also support a suitable burner.
Claims14
A known-down kit of separate and disposable parts which may be selected and assembled to form a variety of stands that supports any of a plurality of different utensils for a food display, said kit comprising a plurality of molded plastic legs, each of said legs having sockets integrally formed on one side thereof with a horizontal shelf support surface projecting on a bottom surface of said plastic leg beneath said sockets, a plurality of bent wires, of at least four of said bent wires forming four sides of an upper frame shaped perimeter of said stand and having vertical sections shaped and dimensioned to slide through said sockets and rest on said projecting support surface at the bottom of said plastic legs, whereby the load of a utensil resting on said frame is transferred at least in part through said vertical sections and bottom support surface to an under lying surface on which said stand is resting, said vertical sections thus providing mechanical supports for bearing the weight of a caterers utensil resting on said stand, at least two bent wires having downwardly projecting recess bends therein for providing a dependent means for receiving and supporting an independent cylindrical burner means, said recess bends extending down and under said burner, said at least two bent wires providing diagonal struts for extending across said perimeter and adding rigidity thereto, and each of said at least two bent wires have a vertical section on each end to slide through said sockets to a position encasing said shell, in order to fix the vertical the height of said burner.
A knock-down stand of separate parts which may be put together in different ways to support any of a variety of utensils, said stand comprising four legs, each leg having a bottom surface which is adapted to rest upon a structure on which said stand is setting, a plurality of releasable attaching means integrally formed on each of said legs in alignment with and above said bottom surface, six bent wire means, four of said bent wire means slidably releasably joined to said attaching means and extending from leg to leg to form a utensil support near a top of said legs, said four wires forming a frame for supporting said utensil while exposing the bottom of said utensil directly to heat from a burner and another two of said bent wire means slidably releasably joined to said attaching means and extending at angles relative to said first plurality of bent wires to form burner supporting struts under said utensil support, each of said two bent wires being shaped to form a centrally located recess dependent from said to bent wires, said recess receiving and supporting at least one canned heat burner within said recess, each of at least said six bent wires terminating on its opposite ends in vertical sections which extend toward and are supported by said bottom surfaces of said vertical legs whereby said bottom surfaces support the weight of the utensil and guard against a marring of said structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.