Modular kit of dimensionally complementary serving pieces

Abstract

A modular kit of dimensionally complementary pieces which may be used in various combinations for serving food, displaying items or the like. Each of the pieces of the kit has a generally flat bottom and side walls integrally formed with and upstanding from the bottom. One or more of these pieces are capable of receiving within its side walls at least two other pieces of the kit when these other pieces are arranged with their bottom in the same plane as one another.

I/we claim:  
     
         1 . A modular kit of dimensionally complementary pieces which may be used in various combinations for serving food, displaying items or the like, each of said pieces having a generally flat bottom and side walls integrally formed with and upstanding from said bottom, at least one of said pieces being capable of receiving within its side walls at least two other pieces of said kit when at least two other pieces of said kit are arranged with their bottom in the same plane as one another.  
     
     
         2 . The kit of  claim 1 , wherein said at least one piece is a base piece having a generally rectangular shape.  
     
     
         3 . The kit of  claim 2  wherein said at least two other pieces are generally rectangular in shape and proportioned in their exterior dimensions to said base piece so as to be capable of being placed within the side walls of said base piece and adjacent the bottom of said base piece.