US 6,668,708 B1Granted

Roaster with hanging and interlocking rack

AssigneeWilton Industries, Inc.

InventorsKaren J. Swinford, Jeffrey Bull, Denise Marie Simon, Shawn Young

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Abstract

A rack of a cooking implement includes a surface for supporting food, opposed sides and opposed ends separated by the food supporting surface. The rack also includes opposing looped handles. A pan of a cooking implement has opposed end walls that are spaced apart at length further than the length of the rack and opposed side walls that are spaced apart at a width wider than the width of the rack. The pan also includes opposing upstanding handles. The handles include at least one horizontal resting surface for supporting the looped handle of the rack and at least one vertical retaining surface for abutting the looped handle of the rack. As a result, the looped handles of the rack are received and supported by the handles of the pan thereby permitting the rack to hang within the interior of the pan.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A cooking implement, comprising:

a rack having at least one food support surface, having opposed ends separated by a first length and opposing sides separated by a first width, wherein the rack has opposing looped handles having a terminal loop portion disposed above the food support surface;
and
a pan having opposed end walls spaced apart by a second length longer than the first length and opposed side walls spaced apart by a second width wider than the first width, wherein the pan has opposing upstanding handles having at least one resting surface for supporting the terminal loop portion of a respective looped handle of the rack, each handle further having at least one substantially vertical outwardly facing retaining surface for abutting the terminal loop portion of a respective looped handle of the rack, such that the looped handles of the rack may be received by the handles of the pan.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.