Multi-layer baking and cooling rack

• US 5,775,209 A
• Filed: 04/01/1997
• Issued: 07/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nifty Home Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: T & L Nifty Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Tiemann, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US08/831,763
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 99/345-347, 99/339, 99/340, 99/426, 99/427, 99/449, 99/450, 126/9 R, 126/25 R, 126/25 A, 126/369, 211/181.1, 211/195, 211/46, 211/162, 220/485, 220/491, 220/486, 220/494, 206/423, 206/427, 206/512, D 7/404, D 6/566
• US Class Current: 99/426
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/16 Shelves, racks or trays inside ovens; Supports therefor

Abstract

A multi-layer or multi-shelf baking and cooling rack which provides a plurality of layer surfaces which will fit into an oven of a stove for receiving articles to be baked thereon. Its lower layer will rest upon the lowest positioned oven shelf and provide three layers in spaced vertical relation thereabove with the normal second shelf of the oven being positionable upon the upper oven rack supports to provide four baking levels. The unit is removable from the oven for cooling of the baked products. The unit consists of a lower rack having a forward and rearward leg rotatable thereon into vertical positions. The rearward leg is provided with a pair of spaced shelf elements rotatably attached thereto with the frontmost ends of such shelf elements provided with hook elements to engage with the forward leg of the lower rack when the same is shifted to its vertical position. The rotatable connections allow for complete collapsing of the unit for storage purposes.

Claims

1. A multi-layer baking and cooking rack including:

a. a plurality of planar shelves each having a forward and a rearward end;

b. a first of said shelves having leg means at its forward and rearward end, said legs being rotatably attached to said shelf;

c. at least a pair of shelves being rotatably attached at said rearward end to one of said legs and being spaced thereon;

d. each of said pair of shelves having attachment means on said forward end thereof; and

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e. said attachment means being connectable to the other of said legs to provide a generally three dimensional rectangular shape to said shelves and legs when so attached.

2. The rack as set forth in claim 1 and each of said shelves and said legs being formed of joined, individual wires of predetermined lengths.

3. The rack as set forth in claim 1 and said attachment means including hooks receivable on a selected portion of said other leg.

4. The rack as set forth in claim 1 and said legs and said shelves being collapsible about said first shelf to provide a compact storage arrangement.

5. The rack as set forth in claim 1 and each of said shelves and said legs being provided of individual, longitudinally extending wires having a wire respectively connecting the ends thereof.