Stacking pan set
OwnerGavin Thomsoninventor
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Abstract
The invention provides a set of cooking pans which nest completely one within the other, optionally together with their lids. Each pan of the set comprises a pan body ad a side handle, and the pan bodies are of progressively smaller diameter so that each pan body can be completely received within the next larger pan body for storage purposes, and each pan handle from the largest pan to at least the second smallest pan in the set is concave, creating along the top of that handle a longitudinal recess, each longitudinal recess communicating with a concavity in the top rim of the associated pan body so that when the body of a pan of smaller size is received in the pan body, the handle of the smaller pan extends through that concavity and is received wholly within the longitudinal recess in the handle of that next larger pan.
Claims17
A cooking pan set, comprising:
- a plurality of cooking pans each including a pan body with a base, an upper rim and at least one handle,
- wherein the pan bodies are of progressively smaller diameter and height and are stacked, one within the other, for storage purposes,
- and, when so stacked, each pan body is completely received within a next larger pan body with its base parallel to the base of the next larger pan, with each pan handle from a smallest pan to a second largest pan in the set extending over the upper rim of the next larger pan in the set, closely to overlie a corresponding handle of the next larger pan in the set,
- and wherein each handle is provided with a location profile so that, when a handle closely overlies a corresponding handle of the next larger pan in the set, the two overlying handles locate together as one so that the so located handles are used to lift the stacked pans of the set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.