Joanne J Knoch

US Patent:

7287870, Oct 30, 2007

Filed:

Feb 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/352751

Inventors:

Joanne J. Knoch - Westfield WI, US

International Classification:

G09F 13/04

US Classification:

362 97, 362806, 362 84, 362249, 362252

Abstract:

An illuminated display system or assembly. In particular, the illuminated system is designed to display various food items such as wedding cakes, hors d'oeuvres, buffets, pies, and the like. The assembly includes a plurality of plates and sheets adapted to be engaged to form enclosures for lighting. Lighting is secured to the sheets within the enclosures. The assembly further includes one or more pillars each adapted to engage the plates and to house additional lighting. The invention also includes methods of assembling the display system and methods of displaying and illuminating the various food items.

US Patent:

61709611, Jan 9, 2001

Filed:

Jun 11, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/330552

Inventors:

Joanne J. Knoch - Westfield WI

International Classification:

F21V 3300

US Classification:

362234

Abstract:

A wedding cake layer is highlighted by a transparent plastic light assembly illuminated by a string of miniature electric lights. The light assembly supports a cake on a transparent plastic tray in an elevated position. The light assembly has one or more transparent plastic tubes forming pillars which are affixed between a top plate and a bottom plate. The plates have pillar entry holes such that a looped strand of lights may pass from the underside of the bottom plate to the top side of the top plate and be affixed thereto. The cake tray has downwardly extending feet which are received within cylindrical protrusions on the top plate. The cake tray has a peripheral rim through which the illuminated miniature lights are visible. An inverted cake tray is positioned beneath the bottom plate such that the feet of the inverted tray engage downwardly extending protrusions on the bottom plate. An electric cord extends from the lighted stand between the bottom plate and the inverted cake tray to be connected to another similar cake support or to an extension cord for connection to a power supply.