Pie pan with fold-down wall section

摘要

A pie pan has a sidewall configured with a cut-out wall section that is held up and in place during packaging and/or baking of a pie, which can be folded down prior to serving the pie to improve access for removal of a first slice of pie. A method of making the pan from a foil sheet includes cutting out the wall section, and forming a releasable connection between the wall section and the remainder of the pan. Forming the releasable connection may include reducing a diameter of the remainder of the pan, nesting the wall section against an outside of the remainder of the pan, and curling a rim of the remainder of the pan over an overlapping portion of a rim of the wall section. This curling operation may create a rim of the wall section slideably engaged inside a rim of the remainder of the pan.

主权项

1. A pie pan, comprising a sheet of ductile material formed into a sidewall in the form of a truncated cone extending between a closed bottom and an open top, a ring oriented generally parallel to the bottom extending outwardly from and around an upper edge of the sidewall, and a curled rim formed around an outer periphery of the ring, wherein the pie pan is characterized by:
a pair of cuts through the sidewall, ring, and rim, defining a wall section separated from a remainder of the pie pan and capable of flexure towards the bottom; overlapping portions of the curled rim between the wall section and the remainder of the pan, configured for engagement with one another adjacent to the pair of cuts.