Baking pan

Claim 1

A bakepan comprising a plurality of individual bakepan cups fixedly assembled in side-by-side relation, each of said bakepan cups having a bottom wall, a sidewall extending upwardly from said bottom wall defining a top opening, and a flange extending horizontally outwardly from said sidewall forming a border about said top opening, said flange being configured to provide first outer edge portions of dimension measured peripherally of said top opening which coincide with the sides of a regular polygon and having at least one depending tongue formed integrally therewith along said first outer edge portions of said flange, which tongues are aligned with like tongues of the cups of said pan in adjacent relation thereto said cups of said bakepan being connected by a welded connection between each of said tongues and the tongues of the neighboring pan cups with which each of said cups has abutting engagement, and said flange of each of said cups of said bakepan having second edge portions which extend transversely of each of the corners of the polygon with which said first outer edge portions of said flange coincide, whereby said second edge portions of the flange of a selected pan cup and the corresponding second edge portion of adjacent pan cups facing said second portions of said selected pan cup cooperate to form an open area between said selected pan cup and said adjacent pan cups, each of said outer edge portions of said flange having a downwardly extending lip formed integrally with said flange, the edge of each lip being beveled so that when one cup is aligned with an adjacent cup, said beveled lip of one cup will be aligned adjacent to the beveled lip of said adjacent cup to form a Vshaped notch to allow for drainage of liquids from said pan through said open areas when said pan is inverted.