Chafing dish with utility handles
OwnerJoseph L. Leonardinventor
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Abstract
A chafing dish with utility handles connected to the chafing dish at such an angle as to permit a lid to be placed on top of the chafing dish and allow a safe, efficient, and balanced grip to be had to lift and exchange or serve food in a chafing dish assembly.
Claims20
A chafing dish comprising:
- a solid bottom panel;
- solid walls extending upwardly from said bottom panel at the peripheral edges thereof, said walls having an upper end and defining a top opening;
- a peripheral ledge extending outwardly from an upper end of said walls, said ledge having a continuous planar sealing lower surface;
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- at least one handle extending inwardly and upwardly said ledge, whereby each said handle may be grasped by a user at a position inward and above said ledge.
A chafing dish assembly comprising:
- a stand;
- a water pan mounted in said stand;
- a chafing dish mounted in said water pan, said chafing dish including,
- a solid bottom panel;
- solid walls extending upwardly from said bottom panel at the peripheral edges thereof, said walls having an upper end and defining a top opening;
- a peripheral ledge extending outwardly from an upper end of said walls, said ledge having a continuous planar sealing lower surface;
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- at least one handle extending inwardly and upwardly from said ledge, whereby each said handle may be grasped by a user at a position inward and above said ledge, and wherein said ledge forms a water tight seal with said water pan.
A method of retrofitting a chafing dish comprising the steps of attaching a pair of inwardly and upwardly extending handles to an upper ledge thereof at opposite ends of the dish, wherein the inwardly and upwardly extending handles accommodate a lid on the dish with the inwardly and upwardly extending handles within the area covered by the lid and whereby each said handle may be grasped by a user at a position inward and above the ledge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.