Claims
- 1. An assembly comprising a formed wire roasting rack and a pair of formed foil roasting pan/cover members removably secured thereto,each said roasting pan/cover member having a base, an upstanding sidewall, a rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the rim, said roasting rack comprising a first pair of parallel elongated wire form sections terminating in upwardly extending portions providing outwardly extending wire handles, and a second elongated wire form section extending transverse to said first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end, each said upwardly extending portion of said second section providing a bead gripping formation at the free end thereof, and an actuator for retracting said bead gripping formation, said wire form sections being adapted to support said base in use, said upwardly extending portions being adapted to support and nestingly receive said sidewall, and said bead gripping formations being sized and proportioned to grippingly retain said pair of roasting pan/cover member bead formations, all in a nested array, to grippingly retain said pair of roasting pan/cover bead formations when one of the pan/covers is inverted to overlie and cover the other, and to release said pan/cover member bead formations for removal from the rack when a said actuator is retracted.
- 2. An assembly in accordance with claim 1 and wherein said roasting pan/cover members are substantially identical.
- 3. An assembly in accordance with claim 1 and wherein each said bead gripping formation comprises an inwardly opening gripper means.
- 4. An assembly comprising a wire roasting rack, a formed foil roasting pan and a formed foil roasting pan cover removably secured to the rack,said roasting pan having a pan base, an upstanding pan sidewall, a pan rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the pan rim, said cover having a cover dome, a cover sidewall, a cover rim and a peripheral bead surrounding the cover rim, said roasting rack comprising a first pair of elongated parallel wire form sections terminating in upwardly extending portions providing outwardly extending wire handles, and a second elongated wire form section extending transverse to said first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end, each upwardly extending portion of said second section providing a bead gripping formation at the free end thereof, and an actuator for retracting said bead gripping formation, said wire form sections being adapted to support said roasting pan base in use, said upwardly extending portions being adapted to support and nestingly receive said pan sidewall, and said bead gripping formations being sized and proportioned to grippingly retain said pair of roasting pan and cover bead formations, when said cover is inverted to overlay and cover the pan, and to release said cover for removal from the rack and from said base when a said actuator is retracted.
- 5. An assembly in accordance with claim 4 and wherein said roasting pan and cover members are substantially identical.
- 6. An assembly in accordance with claim 4 and wherein each said bead gripping formation comprises an inwardly opening gripper means.
- 7. A wire roasting rack for removably securing thereto a pair of formed foil roasting pan/cover members each having a base, an upstanding sidewall, a rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the rim,said roasting rack comprising a first pair of elongated wire form sections terminating in upwardly extending portions providing outwardly extending wire handles, and a second elongated wire form section extending transverse to said first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end, each said upwardly extending portion of said second section providing a bead gripping formation at the free end thereof, and each said upwardly extending portion of said second section providing an actuator above said bead gripping formation for retracting said bead gripping formation, said wire form sections being adapted to support a said base in use, said upwardly extending portions being adapted to support and nestingly receive said upstanding sidewall, and said bead gripping formations being sized and proportioned to grippingly retain a pair of roasting pan/cover beads, both when said cover and pan are in a nested array and when said cover is positioned to overlay and cover the pan, and to release said bead formations for removal from the rack when said actuator is retracted.
- 8. An assembly and accordance with claim 7 and wherein each said bead gripping formation comprises an inwardly opening gripper means.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of my application Ser. No. 09/136,216 filed Aug. 19, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,065,629 granted May 23, 2000.
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