US1515188A - Pie-plate holder for baking ovens - Google Patents

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E. B. CRAWFORD PIE PLATE HOLDER FOR BAKING OVENS I Filed March 19', 1924 Patented Nov. 11,

STATES 125E388 PATENT OFFECE.

EMERICK BREWSTER CRAWFORD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE OVEN EQUIPMENT &; MFG. 00., OF NEVI HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

Pin-PLATE HOLDER FOR BAKING ovens.

Application filed March 19, 1924. Serial No. 700,259.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. EMERICK Bnnwsrnn CRAWFORD, a citizen oi": the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county ot New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pie-Plate Holders for Baking Ovens; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon,,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in Fig. 1 a plan view of a series of pie-plate holders constructed in accordance with my invention and assembled to "form a shelfstructure.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof, with one of the angle-irons partly broken away.

Fig. 3 a detached perspective view of one of the holders.

Fig. 41 a view thereof in central transverse section.

Fig. 5 a plan View of one of the modified forms which my improved pie-plate holder may assume.

Fig. 6 a view thereof on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

My invention relates to an improved pie plate holder applicable for use in any of the types of baking-ovens in which the pies are passed directly through, or circulated in, a heated chamber, the object being to improve the nature of the baking operation and so increase the uniformity and per-- fection of the product andto nullify the effect of distorted pie-plates or the careless placement of the same upon the conveyor employed.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a pie-plate holder for baking.

ovens, the said holder being characterized by a heat-opening giving free access of heat to the bottom of the plate, and by pie-plate supports located adjacent to the said opening for supporting the plate over the same by their side or rim portions.

My invention further consists in a rectangular pie-plate holder having a rela tively large central heat-opening, upstanding plate-supports, positioned to support a pie-plate by its side or rim over the said opening, and hand-clearance openings located between the said supports.

My invention further consists in a pieplate holder for baking-ovens, having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

' In carrying out my invention, as herein sides and bottom, sets-down between them over the heat-opening 11, which admits'heat directly to the full area of the bottom of f the plate, which is veryadvantageous. for the speedy and uniform baking of the pie, whatever its character. Clearance-' spaces 13 between. the supports 12 permit the entrance of the hand or fingers within the circle of the supports in placing a pie plate thereupon: and in removing it there- These clearance-spaces also facilifrom. tate the circulation of the heated air around the sides of the plate.

My improved pie-plate holders are arranged, as shown, upon a pair of parallel angle-irons 14 to which they are secured by bolts 15 or othermeans, whereby a con tinuous shelf of pie-plate holders is formed with the spaces betweenthe heat-openings of the respective holders closed by the abutment of the corners thereof, so that, in case the filling of any pie boils or slops over, it will be caught and prevented from dripping onto the pies on a shelf below. The shelf may be fixed to an endless carrier or swung from an endless carrier, according to the type of baking-oven used. Between the supports 12, guard-flanges or fenders 16 rises slightly into he hand-clearance spaces 13, so as to prevent the accidental fiowage of any escaped pie material into the heatopenings 11.

In Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, I have shown a modified pielate holder embodying my invention but esigned to accommo date a range of pie-plate sizes. This modified holder 17 is rectangular in form and has a large central heat-opening 18 into which project four equidistant, skeleton supports, each comprising three upstanding, segmental flanges 19, 20 and 21, decreasing in height from the outside of the circle inward, and respectively curved and spaced so as to support by their edges three stand ard sizes of pie-plates. The triple supports described are separated from each other by hand clearance-spaces 22, corresponding to the spaces 13 before described.

Under my invention, the pie-plates are supported entirely by their rims or on points adjacent thereto, rather than by their hottoms, which is the common practice, so that all danger of tipping or rocking, due to deformed or uneven bottoms is avoided, as well as the time and labor required to properly locate such plates on baking-oven shelves and to shim them thereupon.

My invention also avoids what hitherto has been a source of great trouble and annoyance, and the production of many disfigured pies, due to the slopping or boiling over of the pie material, and enables the baker to use and re-use pie-plates which have had their bottoms bent out of shape and which otherwise would have to be discarded or used with expense and diiiiculty. Moreover, my invention is attended with great improvement in the baking of the pies, since the bottoms of the pie-plates, being entirely exposed, receive the heat direct, whereby the pies are baked more uniformly than when the plates rest upon their bottoms upon a shelf or grid, Of course, the holders might be made to support the plates by their sides, as well as by their rims, but I prefer to support them by their rims, as shown herein.

I claim:

1. A pie-plate holder for baking-ovens, having a heat-opening and upstanding supports for supporting a pie-plate thereover at points apart from its bottom, the said supports being separated by clearance-openings for the hand-placement of pie plates upon and removal from the said supports.

2. A rectangular pie-plate holder having a centrally-arranged heat-opening and. upstanding supports rising adjacent thereto for supporting a pie-plate thereover at points apart from its bottom, the said supports being separated by clealance-openings for the entrance of the hand in the place ment and removal of the pie-plate.

A pie-plate holder for baking-ovens consisting of a rectangular plate having a large, centrally-arranged heat-opening, and a plurality of upstanding, segmental pie plate supports separated by a plurality of clearance-openings for the access of the hand in the placement upon and removal of pie plates from the said supports, which sup port it indepedently of its bottom over the said opening.

a. A pie-plate holder for bakingovens, consisting of a rectangular plate having a centrally-arranged heat-opening, upsta-r ing supports arranged about the edge thereof, clearance-openings between the said supports, and fenders located between the said supports in the said clearauce-openings for preventing access thereinto from the corners of the plate.

5. A. shelf-structure for baking-ovens, comprising two; angle irons arranged parallel with each other, and a series of rectangular pie-plate holders mounted upon the said irons with their adjacent edges abutted so as to form a continuous surface, the individual holders having a centrallyarranged heat-opening and upstanding 131lt7SLlPPOTtS arranged with respect thereto to support a pie-plate thereover, and separated by clearance-spaces for the hand placement of the pie-plates upon the said supports and their removal therefrom.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscril; ing witnesses.

a; EP/IERHK ERAWFGRE. Witnesses FREDERIO 0. Emma,

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