Abstract This invention is directed to composite baking apparatus designed to receive baked ''''pizza'''' pie crust, and after a filling or topping has been supplied to it as in the making of pastries such as ''''pizza pie'''', to support it in a baking oven while the filling is being cooked and is particularly characterized by a grid or tray element adapted to rest on a frame having a raised peripheral flange and to receive the crust on reticulated or discontinuous supporting means which inhibits entrapment of air in confined cells between the crust and the underlying oven floor, thus enhancing the uniformity of heat transfer to the pastry together with means embodied in the tray element and frame for facilitating the severing of the pastry into sections of serving size, the sheet and tray normally being so dimensioned as to accomodate a pastry of sufficient size to enable a numer of serving size pieces to be made from it, and usually although not necessarily, rectangular in general outline.
Inventors
👤 Arthur Federico
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-10-25 00:20
CPC Classifications
A; A21; A21B; A21B3/00; A21B3/13
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
115 words
Pastry baking apparatus comprising a substantially rectangular frame element having a raised peripheral flange provided with longitudinally spaced openings, an inwardly directed ledge and integral reinforcing elements extending diagonally between opposite corners of the frame element, and a tray element substantially coextensive with the frame element adapted to be disposed within said peripheral flange providing a plurality of substantially identical rectangular cells separated by elongated ribs having substantially V-shaped longitudinal grooves in their upper surfaces aligned with said flange openings when the tray element is disposed within said flange and reticulate pastry supporting means extending across said cells (between) and connected with said ribs for supporting pastry in uniformly spaced relation to said frame element.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
115 words
Pastry baking apparatus comprising a substantially rectangular frame element having a raised peripheral flange provided with longitudinally spaced openings, an inwardly directed ledge and integral reinforcing elements extending diagonally between opposite corners of the frame element, and a tray element substantially coextensive with the frame element adapted to be disposed within said peripheral flange providing a plurality of substantially identical rectangular cells separated by elongated ribs having substantially V-shaped longitudinal grooves in their upper surfaces aligned with said flange openings when the tray element is disposed within said flange and reticulate pastry supporting means extending across said cells (between) and connected with said ribs for supporting pastry in uniformly spaced relation to said frame element.