Cooking pot cover

Details Cooking pot cover Cooking pot cover

1993-12-09

1997-01-28

Moy, Joseph M.

Receptacles

Sidewall structure

Transparent wall or portion

220287, 220369, 220772, B65D 2524

Patent

active

055970885

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The invention is directed to a cooking pot cover.
Known covers for cooking pots are outwardly concavely arced, i.e., away from the pot. As a rule, they also comprise an annular raised portion whose annular diameter is slightly smaller than the diameter of the edge of the pot.
Given the known covers, pouring liquids off by slightly displacing the cover on the edge of the pot upon formation of a sickle-shaped gap and placing the pot at an angle over a sink is difficult because a gap opening also forms at the side lying opposite the gap, steam emerging therefrom. In order to protect against scalding, the user must thus protect himself at the arms as well as by employing potholders at the hands.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of the invention is to create a pot cover that allows a simpler decanting.
This object is inventively achieved in that the cover surface is formed by a cover ring fashioned as a zone of an imaginary sphere section directed toward the pot and of a circular cover surface resting on the cover ring, whereby the width of the cover ring amounts to a few cm and the average ring diameter of the cover ring approximately corresponds to the diameter of the pot.
It is thereby proposed that the cover ring is provided with an open, all around annular coining that limits the cover ring toward the inside, serves for the acceptance of the cover surface and is directed away from the pot.
A preferred exemplary embodiment is characterized in that the cover surface is fashioned as a viewing glass that quite preferably has the shape of a spherical section directed away from the pot.
The cover surface can be held by an adhesive bead introduced into the annular coining.
A preferred exemplary embodiment is characterized in that the cover handle is composed of two grip members lying opposite one another on that side of the cover ring facing away from the pot and put in place thereon and of at least one gripping bow that connects these gripping members to one another and extends across the viewing glass.
It is further proposed that two gripping bows spaced from one another are provided. The one or the two gripping bows preferably proceed curved with a radius corresponding to the radius of curvature of the viewing glass.
The invention shall be set forth below with reference to a drawing.


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a side view of the pot and cover of the invention in partial section;
FIG. 2 is a plan view onto the cover shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a side view in partial section, with the cover shifted relative to the pot; and
FIG. 4 is a plan view onto the cover and pot in the positions relative to one another as shown in FIG. 3.


DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The cover is composed of a cover ring 10, of a cover surface 12 resting on the cover ring 10 and of a cover handle 20, 22.
The cover ring 10 is fashioned in the form of a spherical zone that forms part of an imaginary spherical section shown in dot-dash lines that is directed downward into the pot.
The average ring diameter, i.e., the spacing of the imaginary axis of the cover from the middle of the cover ring 10 approximately corresponds to the diameter b of the pot. The width of the cover ring amounts to approximately 1 through 3 centimeters.
The cover is provided with an annular coining 16 at that edge directed toward the inside of the pot, this annular coining 16 being open in upward direction, i.e., away from the pot. The annular outside diameter of the annular coining 16 is recited as "a", the inside diameter of the annular coining is recited as "c", the clearance between the annular coining 16 and the edge of the pot is recited as "d".
An adhesive bead 18 is introduced into the annular coining 16, this adhesive bead 18 carrying the cover surface 12 fashioned as viewing glass. The viewing glass 12 is fashioned like a spherical segment in upward direction, i.e. directed away from the pot.
The cover handle is composed of two gripping members 20 lying opposite one another on that s

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