The Vollrath Company, LLC

Vollrath

Jeffrey C Mittmann

Cory R Boudreau

Rebecca J Schreiber-Pethan

William Charles Lindeman

Alan J Schommer

Jeffrey T Zank

Ronald J McGettrick

Michael L Carpenter

James P Danielsen

A pan for use with a well for receiving the pan is disclosed herein. The pan includes a bottom panel, a plurality of walls, and a ramp. The plurality of walls extend upwardly from the bottom panel and define a cavity. The plurality of walls also have an upper end which defines a top opening. The upper end has an extension away from the cavity which defines a rim. The ramp is proximate the rim and exterior to the cavity, whereby the pan rides up on the ramp when the pan is drawn up against the well.

Food serving and pan system

Pan removal ramp

Pan corner

Rear portion of a tongs handle

Container rim

A receptacle configured for nested stacking with a lower receptacle of the same construction includes walls intersecting at corners and with a bottom to form a well having an open top bounded by a rim. The rim lies generally in a first plane and has an inner limit adjacent the well which defines a first area larger than the bottom to facilitate nested stacking. Each wall extends in a first direction generally perpendicular with the first plane toward the bottom to a juncture. The juncture defines a second area slightly larger than the first area so that the juncture extends outward from the well an overlap distance beyond the inner limit of the rim of the lower receptacle to establish a generally line-to-line interference with the rim of the lower receptacle. The receptacle also includes a respective juncture-bump, or deviation, at each corner deviating outward from the well at each corner. The juncture-bump traverses the line-to-line interference established by the juncture with the inner limit of the rim at two loci and extends an enhanced overlap distance beyond the line-to-line interference to establish two enhanced interference sites at each corner.

Receptacle configured for nested stacking

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Plymouth, WI, United States of America

Jeffrey C Mittmann