Abstract: A vessel holder device attachable to a suitcase for holding a cup containing a drink such as coffee, tea, water, or a soda can, or bottle, or the like (“vessel”) when the suitcase is upright and also while rolling the suitcase at a tilted angle. The vessel holder device includes a handle attachment adapted for releasable attachment to a suitcase handle, a container attached to the handle attachment portion, and a vessel holder attached to the container and being capable of holding the vessel in horizontal orientation when the suitcase is orientated in a range of zero to thirty degrees.

Abstract: A chafing dish with handles allows a safe, efficient, and professional-appearing exchange and serving of food, keeping the servers hands away from the outer edge of the chafing dish where hot steam rises from the water pan. The chafing dish handles of the present invention are formed as part of a closed loop frame. The frame consists of rail members that are configured to align with and to be positioned beneath the chafing dish ledge. The rail members form a rectangular, depending on the shape of the chafing dish, structure. Handle members extend from the rail members on opposed sides of the frame and extend in a manner that does not prevent the lid placement or the nesting of chafing dishes in storage.

Abstract: Systems for storing beverages are disclosed, which include a container for storing, transporting and dispensing a beverage, e.g. beer. In some implementations the container includes a pressure-tight lid closure system including wire bails.

Abstract: A fluid tank receptacle comprises a housing, a cage, and a retainer. The housing includes an opening therethrough configured to receive a fluid tank. The cage movably engages the housing and configured to support the fluid tank. The retainer is coupled to the housing and is configured to movably retain a portion of the cage within the housing such that the cage is able to move between a storage position and a use position with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A confection rack enables confections to appear as a bouquet of flowers. The confection rack Comprises a plurality of wire rings in circular form mechanically coupled to one another. The plurality of wire rings is mechanically coupled to a ring base with riser prongs. The ring base is further mechanically coupled to locating prongs which can be used to align the confection rack into a pot. In this manner, a user can insert the confections into the plurality of wire rings to make the confections appear as a bouquet of flowers.

Abstract: An external power supply housing configured for multiple mounting options. In one or more embodiments, the housing of the invention comprises channels configured to accept straps for mounting said housing to a support structure by means of those straps. In one or more embodiments, the housing of the invention comprises threaded inserts configured to mount said housing to a support structure by means of threaded fasteners. In one or more embodiments, the housing of the invention comprises a snap engagement portion configured to snap engage a mating power supply caddy for mounting the housing to the caddy.

Abstract: An assembly having a pan and a formed wire rack for receiving and supporting the pan. the rack includes a pair of handles freely and rotatably attached to a closed rim-rack section of the wire rack. Each handle includes a lateral portion and a pair of arms having first arm ends attached to the lateral portion, and the pair of arms having second arm ends separately terminating to a flat section, distal ends of the flat sections being rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section, and wherein the flat sections include loops freely rotatably secured about the closed rim-rack section.

Abstract: A fluid tank receptacle comprises a housing, a cage, and a retainer. The housing includes an opening therethrough configured to receive a fluid tank. The cage movably engages the housing and configured to support the fluid tank. The retainer is coupled to the housing and is configured to movably retain a portion of the cage within the housing such that the cage is able to move between a storage position and a use position with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A multifaceted trivet with multifaceted functionality includes a trivet within a basket, a trivet that may serve as a lid and a serving tray. The trivet within a basket provides further insulation by use of the basket. The basket has rotatable handles which allows a heated item to be placed within the basket and easily carried to a serving area. The trivet that may serve as a lid may function as a trivet on which a pot or container may be placed or may fit as a lid of a particular pot or container.

Abstract: An external power supply support system includes an enclosure with indentations spanning its top and side surfaces in a substantially horizontal fashion, and a caddy with a shell-like body configured to engage at least a portion of the indented power supply enclosure. The shell-like caddy body is provided with mounting apertures spaced according to standard rack rail aperture spacing. The mounting apertures emanate from a series of integral structures bulging from the bottom surface of the shell-like caddy body. The bulging aperture structures in combination with several integral structural ribs are configured collectively to provide a substantially flat and elevated interface suitable for secure mounting of the caddy to a support surface.

Abstract: A waste receiving apparatus includes a shower stall wall. A wastebasket has a bottom wall and a perimeter wall attached to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The bottom wall has a plurality of apertures extending therethrough. A mounting removably receives the wastebasket and attaches the wastebasket to the stall wall.

Abstract: A blank capable of being formed into a drinking glass holder and a drinking glass holder itself are provided, in which a sheet of generally flexible material is provided with access holes for receiving a string or cord threaded therethrough, with ends of string or cord being adapted to be engaged with each other and with the string or cord being carried around the neck of a user, for hands-free carrying of a drinking glass via the holder.

Abstract: A case holding mechanism includes a holding member and a member to be held thereby, one being mounted to the case and another to a body to which the case is to be held. The member to be held includes a first pair of parallel guide portions and another pair of parallel guide portions perpendicular to the one paired guide portions. The holding member disposed to be movable with respect to the guide portions therealong in a state restricted in thickness direction of the guide portions and adapted to hold the member to be held. The holding member includes a pair of slide portions slidable along outer surfaces of one paired guide portions, a lock portion extending between the paired slide portions in parallel with the one paired guide portions and engaged with the other paired guide portions, and a base portion connecting the slide portions and the lock portion.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a base member formed from wire strands conjoined to each other, defining outwardly flanging sides and a bottom surface. One wire has a unitary body provided with ends disposed along sides of the base, support pegs monolithically formed therewith, and lip portions spaced along a longitudinal length of the base member. The wire further has an annular portion monolithically formed with the lip portions, extending upwardly from the base member and traveling inwardly towards a center thereof. Another wire has opposed ends conjoined to the annular portion and one of the base member sides. A tray is seated on the base member and includes a bottom surface and monolithically formed edges. The tray is positioned beneath the annular portion for catching fluids and debris. Rubber caps are positioned about the support pegs for increasing surface area friction and assisting to maintain the apparatus at a stable position.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disposable foil roaster tent having at least three walls, two of which are side walls and a third of which is a top wall. The perimeter of the side and top walls preferably is formed into a rolled-over bead. The disposable roaster tent is preferably constructed to be used with a roasting pans that has a retaining means on the rim of the pan such as a bead or in the case of a disposable foil pan, a rolled-over bead on the perimeter of the pan so that the roaster tent can be easily held on or easily removed from the pan.

Abstract: An inflatable shipping device for protecting at least one fragile item during shipment is provided. The inflatable shipping device includes a housing defining a gas receiving cavity and being constructed of a flexible and substantially gas impermeable material. The housing has a flattened state when the gas receiving cavity is substantially free of gas and an expanded state when gas is introduced into the gas receiving cavity. The housing has a first side, an opposed second side, a first end, an opposed second end, and a flexible inner-liner defining at least one item receiving chamber positioned between the first end and the second end. The item receiving chamber communicates with the first side of the housing and the item receiving chamber is sized and dimensioned to receive at least a portion of the fragile item. The inflatable shipping device is also provided with an inflation assembly for introducing gas into the gas receiving cavity defined by the housing.

Abstract: An assembly of a formed wire roasting rack, a roasting pan and a foil cover, each of which is removable from the rack. Each of the pan and cover has a base, an upstanding sidewall, a rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the rim. The rack has 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 the first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end. At each end thereof, a bead gripping formation is provided. The bead gripping formations are sized and proportioned to grippingly retain the pair of pan and cover bead formations when one of the pan and covers is inverted to overlie and cover the other.

Abstract: A reinforced cooking pan includes a network of channels bounded by wall portions of a metallic foil pan, and an integrated framework of reinforcing elements fixedly mounted in the channels to reinforce the wall portions.

Abstract: A wire-frame or supporting framework for a bottle has an interior portion of high barrier, thin, non-toxic plastic, for example, blow-molded polyethylene naphalate, and an outer portion of rigid or semi-rigid plastic cage-like structure, for example, injection molded polyethylene terephthalate. A method of manufacturing the aforesaid bottle includes the steps of forming the outer supporting wire-frame structure, inserting a preform therein and blow-molding the preform within the supporting wire-frame structure to form the bottle of defined size and shape.

Abstract: An assembly of a formed wire roasting rack, a roasting pan and a foil cover, each of which is removable from the rack. Each of the pan and cover has a base, an upstanding sidewall, a rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the rim. The rack has 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 the first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end. At each end thereof, a bead gripping formation and an actuator for retracting the bead gripping formation is provided. The bead gripping formations are sized and proportioned to grippingly retain the pair of pan and cover bead formations in a nested array, and to grippingly retain the pair of pan and cover bead formations when one of the pan and covers is inverted to overlie and cover the other.

Abstract: A bread baking pan and complementary protective carrier. The pan has edge flanges that enter complementary recesses at the edges of the carrier, and which serve to protect the user from injury by the edges of the pans. The carrier eliminates any air zones defined between the base of the pan and a corresponding face of the carrier, one embodiment of the carrier being fabricated from wire, and another embodiment providing face to face contact between the base of the carrier and the pan.

Abstract: Applicants' invention comprises an apparatus for safely yet effectively handling steam table pans. The apparatus is a frame formed from cylindrical steel of a shape and size for surrounding a steam table pan under its lateral flange. The frame includes two handles positioned so as not to interfere with proper seating of the pan in the receptacle hole in the steam table. One embodiment of the pan handling device includes lid/pan clamps for securing the pan handling device to a steam table pan as well as for securing a pan lid to a pan such as when food is to be stored in a pan.

Abstract: The invention is a reinforcing support structure for a pan adapted to contain an object. The pan has a pan bottom and a sidewall extending upwardly from the periphery of the pan bottom. An outwardly extending rim is formed on the upwardly extending sidewall around the entire circumference of the pan. An outer support for holding the pan has an upper support portion and a lower support portion. The upper support portion is applied to the entire outwardly extending rim of the pan to support and reinforce the extending rim. The lower support portion also includes a plurality of horizontal support members wherein at least one of the horizontal support members is formed in a zigzag shape. An object support rack is disposed within the pan to support the object when the object is disposed in the pan. The object support rack includes a spacer for spacing the object apart from the pan bottom.

Abstract: A cooking rack is provided for use with an aluminum foil pan. The rack comprises wire segments for supporting a food item to be cooked. The wire segments define a planar array and are disposed above the pan base. The rack includes a pair of oppositely disposed handles, including a hand grip overlying the pan rim and a clamp below the pan rim for clamping the rim therebetween. The clamp is movable to a retracted position for assembly of the pan to the cooking rack and for detaching the rack from the pan.

Abstract: A combination cooking rack and aluminum foil pan assembly. The rack comprises wire segments for supporting a food item to be cooked. The wire segments define a planar array and are disposed above the pan base. The rack includes a pair of oppositely disposed handles, including a hand grip overlying the pan rim and a clamp below the pan rim for clamping the rim therebetween. The clamp is movable to a retracted position for assembly of the pan to the cooking rack and for detaching the rack from the pan.

Abstract: A recycling bin cart having a pair of wheels and rigid vertical support coupled to at least two horizontally supported shelves sized and spaced apart to receive recycling bins with the lower shelf being located close to the ground. The cart is used to transport recycling bins containing different segregated trash such as newspapers is used to reduce the lifting of the recycling bins for people who are physically impaired. The device may be folded when not in use in a collapsed position and also may be covered aesthetically for use in the home or apartment by a decorative covering while still being used for collecting individual segregated trash items.

Abstract: The wire stand of the present invention includes an upper rim of wire steel in a substantially rectangular configuration, a lower rim of wire steel of similar configuration and a pair of wire legs with each formed as an integral unit with each wire leg affixed at one end thereof to the upper rim and affixed to the lower rim such that the upper rim and lower rim lie in substantial parallel alignment to one another and extending below the lower rim to maintain the lower rim a fixed distance above the support upon which the stand is placed.