Oven roasting rack

• US 10,455,986 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bruce T. Meller
• Original Assignee: Bruce T. Meller
• Inventors: Meller, Bruce T
• Primary Examiner(s): Murphy, Kevin F
• Application Number:
  US15/588,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20180249864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: 99419, 220491
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/18 Holding or clamping devices for supporting fowl, venison, or other meat, or vegetables, during cooking or during subsequent cutting
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/16 Shelves, racks or trays inside ovens; Supports therefor

Abstract

A rack for cooking poultry or other meat comprises a collapsible frame made from a plurality of rod like members including a cradle within which an elongated skewer is non-rotatably retained such that said skewer may be separable and removable from said rack to turn or plate the poultry.

Claims

1. A cooking accessory comprising a handle suitable for grasping by a user, said handle connected to at least two elongated rods, each said elongated rod configured to penetrate a turkey to a first depth, and at least two shorter rods, each said shorter rod configured to penetrate the turkey to a second depth, said handle and said elongated rods forming a skewer extending sufficiently to support the turkey in a suspended manner;

a frame for supporting said skewer, said frame including a pair of formed rod like members forming a horizontal bottom, said rod like members joined at their mid-sections and extending diagonally with respect to said mid-sections to define four bottom corners of said frame, each rod member terminating in an up-turned stud, said frame further including a second pair of formed rod like members releasably connected at opposing ends thereof to said studs and forming a support for said skewer on opposite sides of said frame, each of said second pair including a central region formed as a cradle to receive said pair of elongated rods, said skewer further comprising a cross piece affixed to said pair of elongated rods in spaced relation to said handle such that said central cradle region of said frame extends between said handle and said cross piece when said skewer is supported on said frame.

2. The cooking accessory as defined in claim 1 wherein said central region is adapted to support said skewer at an elevation sufficient to suspend the turkey between said second pair of formed rod like members.

3. The cooking accessory as defined in claim 1 wherein said up-turned studs and said rod like members releasably connected thereto further comprise a plurality of sleeve connectors.

4. The cooking accessory as defined in claim 1 wherein said central region is configured intermediate said second pair of formed rod like members at a height to suspend the turkey above said horizontal bottom.

5. The cooking accessory as defined in claim 1 wherein said pair of formed rod like members is releasably connected to said second pair of formed rod like members by sleeve connections carried by said second pair of formed rod like members.

6. A cooking accessory comprising a handle suitable for grasping by a user, said handle connected to at least two elongated rods, each said elongated rod configured to penetrate a turkey to a first depth, and at least two shorter rods, each said shorter rod configured to penetrate the turkey to a second depth, said handle and said elongated rods forming a skewer extending sufficiently to support the turkey in a suspended manner;

a frame for supporting said skewer, said frame including a pair of formed rod like members forming a horizontal bottom, said rod like members joined at their mid-sections and extending diagonally with respect to said mid-sections to define four bottom corners of said frame, each rod member terminating in an up-turned stud, said frame further including a second pair of formed rod like members releasably connected at opposing ends thereof to said studs and forming a support for said skewer on opposite sides of said frame, each of said second pair including a central region formed as a cradle to receive said pair of elongated rods, said skewer further comprising a cross piece affixed to said pair of elongated rods in spaced relation to said handle such that said central cradle region of said frame extends between said handle and said cross piece when said skewer is supported on said frame;

wherein said pair of formed rod like members is releasably connected to said second pair of formed rod like members by sleeve connections carried by said second pair of formed rod like members.