US618317A - Pie-rack - Google Patents

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NrTnn STATES PATENT rrrcn.

EDORA VILOTT ANDERSON, OF VAN, OREGON.

PIE-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,317, dated January 24, 1899. Application filed March 28,1898. Serial No. 6751436 (N0 mOdl T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, Enorm YrLorr ANDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Van, in the county of Harney and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pie-Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The objectvoi' my invention is to provide a simple and cheaply-constructed rack or support for pies or cakes in pans, whereby the same may be conveniently exhibited or exposed to View and be protected from flies or other insects.

The invention consists of a rack or holder comprising a frame made up of two parallel rings separate one from the other and a plurality of longitudinally-extending wires connecting said rings and provided at points intermediate their ends with inwardly-extending loops or projections constituting supports for receiving the edges of the pie-plates. The said rack is further provided with a hinged cover, by means of which access to the interior may be had, and both the frame and the cover are covered with wire-netting or other suitable reticulated material, which will prevent the access of iiies or other insects to the pies contained within the holder. Suitable supporting means are also provided, by means of which the rack may be supported from a hook.

In the drawing forming part of this specication the gure thereof represents a perspective view of a pie-rack constructed according to my invention,with the door thereof shown in open position.

The said rack consists of a frame made up of two substantially parallel rings 1 2, of the same diameter, connected by longitudinallyextendingwires 3 4 5, each provided at points intermediate its ends with a plurality7 of inwardly-extendingloops,offsets,or projections G 6, upon which the pie-plates may be supported.

The corresponding loops 6 upon each of the wires 8, 4f, and 5 are in the same horizontal planes, so that the pie-plate when in place will engage a loop or projection upon each of said wires. The wires 3 and 5 are located at diametrically opposite points and the wire 4 located between the wires 3 and 5. The rings 1 and 2 are covered by flat strips of wire-netting, and the side of the frame is covered by a curved strip 8 of similaimaterial. Hinged to the longitudinal rod or wire 5 is an auX- iliary frame 9, which constitutes the door of the rack, the same being made up of semicircular strips 10 and 11 of sheet metal at the upper and lower ends thereof and a longitudinal strip 12, connecting the outer ends of said semicircular strips. The said auxiliary frame, which constitutes the door, is covered with a sheet 13 of wire-netting, and the longitudinal strip 12 is provided with a catch 14, which coacts with a keeper 15 on the longitudinal wire 3. Connected to the upper ring '2 of the frame is a series of supporting-Wires 16 16, provided with hooks 17 upon their upper ends, by means of which the rack may be supported from a hook or other elevated sup port.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that by my construction I have provided a simple and cheaply-constructed rack for pies, cakes, and the like, by means of which the same may be exhibited and at the same time protected from flies and other insects.

When it is desired to insert or remove a pie from the rack, the door 9 is swung open upon its hinges by first releasing the catch 14 from its keeper 15. Afterward the door is closed and the pies upon the inside of the rack are completely protected.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A pie-rack consisting of a wire trame made up of an upper and a lower ring, longitudinally-extending wires connecting said rings provided with eyes at their opposite ends which embrace said rings and bent at points intermediate of their ends forming inwardlyextending offsets, two of said longitudinallyextending wires located at diametrically opposite points with respect to said rings, and the other located at an intermediate point, wire-netting covering said rings and connecting the oppositely-located, longitudinally-extending Wires and the intermediate wire, leaving an uncovered space upon one side of said frame, and a door adapted to inclose said un IOO covered space, consisting of a Wire-Covered In testimony whereof I have signed this frame made up of paralieLsubstantially semispecification in the presence of two subseribxo circular strips located at the upper and lower ing witnesses.

ends thereof pivoted to one of the oppositely- T located,longitudinelly-extendingWires of the EDORA VILOTT AhDERSO-N frame and a, vertically-extending strip con- Vitnesses:

meeting the free ends of said semieiroular GUSS ROBERTSON,

strips, es and for the purpose set forth. JOHN D. DALY.

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