Two Or More Removable Inner Containers Patents (Class 220/573.5)
  • Patent number: 10874264
    Abstract: An apparatus for storage of toiletries and other bathroom accessories may include a main body, an upper compartment assembly, and a base. The main body may include an outer wall defining a central cavity configured and dimensioned to store toilet paper, and a dividing wall separating the central cavity from a plunger storage area defined by a frame and the base. The upper compartment assembly may include one or more compartments for storing toiletries, and the apparatus may further include one or more for storing air freshener, extra wipes, and/or other accessories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Porzio
  • Patent number: 8887943
    Abstract: A decorative serving container system that includes a serving dish, a ring element, and a cover element. At least two ring element handle portions extend outwardly from a ring element lip, wherein each ring element handle portion has a shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of a serving dish handle, wherein each ring element handle portion includes a handle skirt portion that extends downwardly from the handle portion and is formed to be positionable around at least a portion of a serving dish handle and provide frictional engagement of the handle skirt portion with at least a portion of the serving dish handle. The cover element has one or more handles formed to be at least partially received within a recess of the ring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Inventor: Sabine S. Miller
  • Publication number: 20130341335
    Abstract: A nestable bakeware system includes a first bakeware container having a first container outer rim and defining a first recess, and a second bakeware container disposed within the first recess. A third bakeware container is disposed within the first recess and resides adjacent to the second bakeware container. The second and third bakeware containers are smaller than the first bakeware container and differ from one another. A lid bakeware container has a lid container outer rim and defines a second recess. The lid container outer rim is positionable in mating engagement with the first container outer rim to enclose the second bakeware container and the third bakeware container within a cavity defined by the first recess and the second recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: WKI HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Arif SITABKHAN, John CHAP, Dan CUTCHIN, Klara PITHYOU, Reggy HUDGINS, Demetrius ROMANOS, Bryan SHOVA, Kory GUNNERSON, Kieron TSE
  • Patent number: 8613249
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus facilitates cooking with a heated/boiling liquid of a food item by utilizing a cooking bag, a cooking tray, and/or a cooking film. A food product that utilizes the cooking apparatus and food items produces cooked food that may be plateable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: ConAgra Foods RDM, Inc.
    Inventors: David W. France, Adam Pawlick
  • Publication number: 20130306646
    Abstract: A set of cooking vessels includes 2 or more fluid containing vessels that nest within each other for compact storage. Side gripping handles on opposing sides of the vessel also and asked with each other, as the larger vessel has cite handles with a laterally extending cavity that accommodates the contour of the smaller vessel handles which are mere extension of the rim thereof. The vessel set may also accommodate a sieve or strainer that nest within the smaller vessel, as well as a third nestable vessel that can optionally be used as a lid to cover the larger vessel during cooking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LTD.
    Inventor: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng
  • Patent number: 8245633
    Abstract: A bread baking support for a baking appliance, the support having at least one mold of elongated shape having a substantially semicircular cross-section. The longitudinal edges of the support have substantially vertical walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Michel Klinger, Lionel Reyes
  • Patent number: 8123067
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Gavin Thomson
  • Patent number: 7938285
    Abstract: A wood chip soaking apparatus has a fluid holding base container having end walls suited for supporting at least one, and suitably two, or even more, wood chip baskets in the container for pre-soaking the wood chips to be added to a barbeque heat source. Wood chips are preferably supported in the base container on handles projecting from the wood chip baskets. The base container preferably is provided with elevated side walls for supporting the wood chip baskets in an elevated position after soaking for draining the fluid from the baskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Raichlen, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: 7913866
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cream pot (10) for receiving a cream or the like, said pot consisting of an outer pot (11), an inner pot (14), and a connection device for connecting a lid element thereto. The inner pot consists of plastic, is inserted into a receiving element of the outer pot, and comprises a metal wall lining a receiving region (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Manfred Bodenbender
  • Publication number: 20090095169
    Abstract: An adapter for a slow cooker having one or more basins for food items and a perimeter configured to fit an upper rim of the slow cooker and also receive the cover of the slow cooker such that the original closure seal of the cover to the slow cooker is maintained. Another embodiment comprises at least first and second identically shaped trays configured to nest in side-by-side fashion when supported within the slow cooker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Diana L. York
  • Patent number: 7118004
    Abstract: A combination dip and cake holder and punch bowl is readily configurable between any of three configurations. A platter member has a base with a female receiver, while a first type of receptacle has an extension that is receivable within the receiver so that when the first receptacle faces upwardly, a dip holder is formed. A second receptacle also has an extension that is receivable within the first extension of the first receptacle in order to form a punch bowl. When the first receptacle rests on its rim and the platter member receives the receptacle's extension, the device acts as a cake holder with the second receptacle being used as a cover that sits on the platter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Inventor: Line A. Rossetti
  • Patent number: 7112764
    Abstract: A disposable insert or liner conformable to a slow cook cookware (such as, for example, a conventional crock pot or like slow cooking device) having a single interior cooking chamber. The liner is adapted to fit within the interior chamber of a crockpot so as to substantially be in adjacent contact with the crock pot interior chamber walls without interfering with the operation of the cooking device. The liner provides a single compartment which may be made of any material allowing heat conduction between the cookware and the liner. A suitable material may be a tear resistant aluminum foil to withstand typical food preparation in a crock pot. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a flange, notches, indentations or other formations which assist in the insertion and removal of the present invention in the cookware. The present invention advantageoiusly provides for a desirable cooking environment, allows easy removal of food from the crock pot and provides simplified cleaning of the crock pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventor: Kristy Kailynn Garcia
  • Patent number: 6255637
    Abstract: A stacking arrangement for simultaneously stacking plural food filled plates and beverage containers together for use in microwaves and refrigerators. Hollow rings with outwardly sloping sides each having side oval through-holes and upper edge grooves are placed on food filled plates so that the plates can be stacked on top of each hollow ring. A cover with outwardly sloping sides has a handle with a lid and through-hole adjacent to the handle covers the top food filled plate in the stack. The stack can be placed in a microwave, heating oven, refrigerator or freezer. The through-holes in the rings and the cover act as vents to allow heat to be evenly dispersed about the food and to allow the food to be more evenly cooked when being microwaved. The cover and rings can be made of microwaveable plastic such as polypropylene. When not being used the rings can together be inserted into the cover for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Inventor: Peter F. Collett