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US 5,692,431 AGranted
Bread baking
AssigneeMackies (UK) Limited
InventorMichael Thomas Arthur Herring
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Abstract
A bread baking pan and complementary protective carrier. The pan has edge flanges that enter complementary recesses at the edges of the carrier, and which serve to protect the user from injury by the edges of the pans. The carrier eliminates any air zones defined between the base of the pan and a corresponding face of the carrier, one embodiment of the carrier being fabricated from wire, and another embodiment providing face to face contact between the base of the carrier and the pan.
Claims10
Apparatus (10) adapted for use in bread baking comprising:
- a) at least one pan (12) to receive a body of dough;
- b) said pan being of lightweight construction so as to have insufficient structural strength to withstand normal bread baking usage;
- c) a protective carrier (14) for said pan to receive said pan therein and to provide said structural strength therefor;
- d) said pan being removably receivable in said carrier to enable replacement of said pan during the life of said carrier;
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- e) said pan having at least one deformable edge flange (34) to be deformed into releasable mounting engagement with said carrier;
- f) said carrier being formed with at least one edge having a recess (24) extending lengthwise along at least part of said one edge characterised by
- g) said carrier being adapted to receive the outermost edge (26) of said pan, said edge projecting inwardly into said recess so as to protect a user from injury by said pan edge, said edge flange of said pan being removable from said recess by means of a tool insertable into said recess and engageable with said edge flange.
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Apparatus (10) adapted for use in bread baking comprising:
- a) at least one pan (12) to receive a body of dough;
- b) said pan (12) being of lightweight construction so as to have insufficient structural strength to withstand normal bread baking usage;
- c) a protective carrier (14) for said pan to receive said pan therein and to provide said structural strength therefor, said carrier being formed with a base plate;
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- d) said pan being removably receivable in said carrier to enable replacement of said pan during the life of said carrier;
- characterised by
- e) the absence of a still air zone defined between the base (46) of said pan and a corresponding face (48) of said carrier, said absence of a still air zone being provided by having said carrier base plate make face-to-face contact with the base (46) of said pan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.