Tier support system for fancy cakes

Claim 1

A post having its entire length cross-sectioned so as to facilitate insertion into and removal from a cake with minimal distortion thereof with means for mounting the same in a panel aperture of predetermined size comprising: a removable head member including a sleeve adapted to engage through the panel aperture and a collar on one end thereof larger than the panel aperture and having an underside spaced from the other end of the sleeve and extending outwardly from the sleeve, said sleeve having therein an opposed pair of cam ramps with circumferentially spaced ends defining therebetween an opposed pair of slots, a stud member on one end of said post, said stud member having on an outer end thereof an opposed pair of lugs adapted to engage through the opposed pair of slots between the cam ramps, and a second collar larger than the panel aperture and spaced along the length of said stud from said lugs, the length of the sleeve between the underside of the first collar being such that the end of the sleeve engages against the second collar and said outer end of said stud, said lugs, and the exposed end of the sleeve collar all lie in a common plane with said lugs seated on the cam ramps and the opposite end of said post also terminating in a plane with portions, adequate to provide support for said post.