DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring now to FIG.
1 of the drawings, a conventional steam pan 10 is rectangular in shape and comprises side walls 11, 12, 13, 14 interconnected by a flat bottom 15.
The side walls terminate in outwardly rolled flanges 11a, 12a, 13a, and 14a.
The flanges normally support the pan 10 in a cutout on the surface of a steam table (not shown) in a well-known manner.
The manipulation device 16, as depicted in FIG.
2, consists of a flat triangular surface, or body 17, having a handle 18 extending upwardly and outwardly from one side and a pair of grips 20 curled under from each of the other two sides of the triangular body 17.
The best mode for this configuration is to cut a flat pattern from a flat piece of stainless steel where the pattern contains tabs appending from each of the three triangular sides of the body which can be formed into the grips 20 and the handle 18, and then to form the grips 20 by rolling the grip tabs around a circular cross section.
While the best mode for forming the grip 20 is as described, other modes of forming a grip 20 consist of, and are not limited to, attachment of appropriately shaped pieces of material for form a grip 20 by either welding, gluing, adhesive, braising, screwing, bonding, or bending, or by a combination of these methods.
Referring to FIG.
3, the handle 18 is formed by bending the handle tab in the opposite direction from which the grips 20 are rolled to an angle of between 0 and 90 degrees; a 45 degree angle is shown in FIG.
2.
A piece of metal within the handle tab is removed so as to create a hand hole 19 that is generally the width of four human fingers, and to bend the handle tab and hole in a direction opposite the gripping means, thereby forming a bend with the body 17 whose angle is between 0 and 90 degrees to the surface of the plane of the device.
Other modes of forming a handle 18 consist of, and are not limited to, the attachment of a specially shaped piece of material by means such as welding, gluing, braising, screwing, bonding, or mechanical attachment by friction
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