Patent ID: 8887943
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: A21B,A47G,A47J,B65D

Abstract:
1. A decorative serving container system, comprising: a serving dish, wherein said serving dish includes a bottom wall, a pair of opposing, upwardly extending side walls, and a pair of opposing, upwardly extending end walls, wherein said upwardly extending side walls and said upwardly extending end walls extend upwardly from around an outer periphery of said bottom wall and are continuous at four corners, wherein a continuous serving dish lip extends outwardly from an upper edge of said upwardly extending side walls and said upwardly extending end walls, and wherein at least two serving dish handles extend outwardly from said continuous serving dish lip on opposing sides of said serving dish; a foil pan having a shape that substantially corresponds to a shape of said serving dish, such that said foil pan can be substantially nested within said serving dish; a ring element, wherein said ring element includes a ring element lip having a shape that substantially corresponds to said shape of said serving dish lip, wherein at least two ring element handle portions extend outwardly from said ring element lip, wherein each ring element handle portion has a shape that substantially corresponds to said shape of said serving dish handles, wherein each ring element handle portion includes a handle skirt portion extending downwardly from said handle portion, wherein each handle skirt portion is formed so as to be positionable around at least a portion of a serving dish handle and provide frictional engagement of said handle skirt portion with at least a portion of said serving dish handle, wherein when said handle skirt portions are in frictional engagement with at least a portion of each of said serving dish handles, said ring element secures said foil pan within said serving dish, and wherein said ring element includes at least one recess formed in each ring element handle portion or ring element lip; and a cover element, wherein said cover element includes a top wall, a pair of downwardly extending side walls, and a pair of downwardly extending end walls, wherein said downwardly extending side walls and said downwardly extending end walls extend downwardly from around an outer periphery of said top wall and are continuous at four corners, wherein a continuous cover element lip extends outwardly from a lower edge of said downwardly extending side walls and said downwardly extending end walls, wherein at least two cover element handles extend outwardly from said continuous cover element lip on opposing sides of said cover element, and wherein each cover element handle is formed so as to be at least partially received within at least one recess of said ring element.