US 5,494,253 AGranted

Cookie sheet device

OwnerBruce A. Snowinventor

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Abstract

A cookie sheet device formed of multiple, closely stacked, heat-conductive, substantially rigid, flat sheets is disclosed, each sheet having a plurality of openings therein adapted to receive removable cookie molds. The sheets are stacked in superposed fashion utilizing a short distance above the next lower sheet sufficient to allow cookies in the lower sheet to rise in normal fashion yet to leave very little excess distance between the top of each cookie and the bottom of the molds inset into the upper sheet. When inserted into a baking oven, the temperature of each set of molds is thus kept substantially the same, allowing for even baking of cookies in each sheet. While more than two sheets may be used, (generally in commercial size batches) the preferred device utilizes two sheets only. The openings in the sheets may be circular or square or otherwise shaped dependent upon the shape of the outside portion of the molds being used. Likewise the molds themselves may be circular or decoratively shaped to form the cookies as desired.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A cookie sheet device comprising:

a rigid first cookie sheet having a plurality of mold openings directed therethrough;
a first plurality of mold units, each of the mold units being removably received and supported within an individual one of the openings of the first cookie sheet;
a rigid second cookie sheet having a plurality of mold openings directed therethrough, the second cookie sheet being positioned in a spaced and parallel orientation directly above the first cookie sheet such that the second cookie sheet coextensively covers the first cookie sheet;
a second plurality of mold units, each of the mold units being removably received and supported within an individual one of the openings of the second cookie sheet;
a plurality of vertical support members extending between the first and second cookie sheets, the vertical support members being removably coupled to the cookie sheets so as to removably support the second cookie sheet in the spaced and parallel orientation directly above the first cookie sheet;
wherein the cookie sheets are each of a predetermined first vertical thickness, with the mold units each being of a predetermined second vertical thickness, wherein the first vertical thickness is substantially equal to the second vertical thickness such that the mold units reside flush with upper and lower surfaces of the respective cookie sheet when received therein, with no portion of the mold units projecting above the upper surface of the respective cookie sheet and no portion of the mold units projecting below the lower surface of the respective cookie sheet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.