Title: Serving dish

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1. A serving dish and comprising a container having an integral bottom wall and side wall structure said side wall including an upper terminal edge and incorporating an upwardly directed ledge portion immediately adjacent said edge, a colander member having an integral bottom wall and side wall arrangement, said side wall arrangement terminating in a peripherally extending downwardly positioned lip, which lip mates with said upwardly directed ledge thereby supporting the bottom wall and side wall arrangement of the colander in juxtaposition with but spaced from the bottom wall and side wall structure of the container, with said side wall thereof protruding above said upper terminal edge said bottom wall of the colander also having a plurality of openings extending therethrough, a divider having a top wall and juxtaposed depending walls from the bottom edge of which a plurality of protuberances depend, said protuberances being positioned so as to mate with certain of the openings in the bottom wall of said colander thereby firmly supporting the divider therein.

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Inventors: Bateman, Robert F. (Greenville, RI, US)
Boucher, Richard A. (Fitchburg, MA, US)

Application Number: 802754
Filing Date: 1977-06-02
Publication_date: 1979-04-03
Assignee: Dart Industries Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
Primary Class(es): 220/574.2 210/464, 220/23.87, 220/528, 220/529, 220/575, D7/541
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US Patent Ref:

D105367	Jul, 1937	Swordling	220/22.
1092991	Apr, 1914	Heintz	206/514.
1157045	Oct, 1915	Risher	220/22.
2459561	Jan, 1949	Yawman	220/22.
3164285	Jan, 1965	Melich	220/17.
3391816	Jul, 1968	Swett	220/17.
3809063	May, 1974	Hajnal	220/17.

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Primary Examiner: Price, William
Assistant Examiner: Pollard, Steven M.
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