Magnetic safety feature for cookware and cooking stoves

Details Magnetic safety feature for cookware and cooking stoves Magnetic safety feature for cookware and cooking stoves

2008-02-29

2010-02-23

Fuqua, Shawntina (Department: 3742)

Electric heating

Heating devices

Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...

C219S620000, C219S621000, C219S622000, C219S624000, C219S443100, C219S447100, C219S518000, C219S519000, C219S489000, C126S373100, C366S197000, C366S274000, C366S273000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07667161

ABSTRACT:
Methods and devices for securing the bottom of an item of cookware to the burner of a stove top by use of magnetism. The magnet(s) may be permanent magnets or electromagnets. The cookware may comprise a permanent magnet disposed on or in the base of the cookware. The burner comprises a magnetic material such as steel or iron. The magnetic material may be in the grate of the cook top, in the electric coil of an electric burners in the surface of a vitroceramic or smooth-top stove top, or other component of the cook top in close proximity to the bottom of the cookware when it is on the cooking surface. The magnetic source prevents the cookware from being accidentally knocked off the cook top.

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