Stoves and furnaces – Liquid heater – Open-top vessel that may include lid
Patent
1983-06-14
1985-03-26
Focarino, Margaret A.
Stoves and furnaces
Liquid heater
Open-top vessel that may include lid
126383, 222533, A47J 2700
Patent
active
045066574
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The cooking of several food dishes involves heating water in a saucepan, often together with the dish or ingredients thereof.
Smaller saucepans have one single, radially protruding handle. Disabled persons suffering from diseases, especially rheumatism, in their arms, wrists or fingers, are unable to lift such a saucepan by the handle in order to pour out its content. The reason for this is that individuals having such handicaps have great difficulty in making gripping movements. The problem is aggravated by the fact that, as a rule, all of the contents shall not be poured out. Just the other way around, in most cases it is required to hold the saucepan in an inclined position and successively to increase the inclination angle so that the water flows out whereas the solid constituents of the food remains in the saucepan. Such pans of average and bigger size often have two U-shaped handles in a diametrically opposed position. A disabled person finds it easier to handle such a saucepan, because he can grip it between his wrists so that the handles rest against the top thereof. In this way he can lift the saucepan vertically and then move it laterally, e.g. to or from a hot plate of an oven. In contrast thereto he can neither handle such a type of saucepan when liquid removal is required.
The object of the invention is to provide a saucepan which, when containing a liquid, can be emptied also by disabled persons as above explained. The invention is based on the realization that it is possible to design the saucepan so that no tilting movement becomes necessary, the liquid being instead drained through an outlet near the bottom. The characteristics of the invention are set forth in the claims and an embodiment thereof is described below, reference being made to the drawing.
FIG. 1 shows a saucepan according to the invention in its operational position and
FIG. 2 shows it in its draining position.
Reference numeral 1 refers to the saucepan vessel which has a lid 2 and two handles 3 and 4 which, in the operational position, are located near the upper rim of the saucepan in the conventional manner. However, the handles are not rigidly connected to saucepan 1 but supported by arms 4a pivotable around pivots 5 located in the bottom region of the pan. According to the embodiment illustrated arms 4a are interconnected by a semiconductor yoke 6 surrounding the vessel. In the midportion of yoke 6 there is a curved outlet nozzle 7 the opening of which is directed radially inwards whereas its opposite end is connected to the one end of a hose 8. The other end of the hose is connected to a socket 9 adjacent the pan bottom. Accordingly, the interior of the pan communicates with hose 8 via socket 9.
When the pan is in its operational position as shown in FIG. 1, yoke 6 is in its upper position meaning that nozzle 7 is approximately level with lid 2. Consequently, liquid inside the pan cannot flow out through nozzle 7.
When the pan is to be emptied as far as its liquid content is concerned, handles 3 and 4 are moved downwards, nozzle 7 and hose 8 participating in the movement of yoke 6 whereby, as shown in FIG. 2, nozzle 7 is brought into a position approximately level with the bottom of the pan. The liquid may accordingly be drained through socket 9, hose 8 and nozzle 7.
In other embodiments of the invention the saucepan has one movable handle only. Instead of a flexible hose connected to a stationary socket it is possible to use a rigid tube which by suitable sealing means is swingably connected to a socket or the like.
In order to make sure that children cannot empty the pan it is possible to provide both handles 3 and 4 with suitable safety means which have to be actuated upon simultaneously in order for a tilting movement to be triggered.
Preferably, there is immediately above the orifice of socket 9 disposed a strainer in the form of a perforated plate or a network which assures that solid parts of small dimensions, e.g. macaroni, are retained above the outlet.
1. A saucepan, particularly adapted to be used by disabled
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patent: 283287 (1883-08-01), Schoening
patent: 523627 (1894-07-01), Ebling
patent: 525924 (1894-09-01), Sabin
patent: 731454 (1903-06-01), Higgins
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