Receptacles – Cookware
Patent
1998-05-07
2000-03-07
Moy, Joseph M.
Receptacles
Cookware
220756, 220912, 220735, B65D 2510
Patent
active
060328223
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a handle for cooking utensils, in particular for frying pans.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is normal experience during cooking to use a spoon, usually of wood, for mixing food undergoing cooking in a frying pan or Saucepan, then having completed this operation not to know where to rest the spoon which, if laid on the cooking hob soils it, being itself now soiled with the mixed food. The spoon is sometimes left in the frying pan, with the risk that as its handle projects from the frying pan it catches fire, or becomes black in the long term if of wood or of another material sensitive to prolonged heating, in that region which projects just beyond the frying pan. To avoid these drawbacks, a plate is sometimes placed on the hob on which to rest the spoon, but with the result that the plate becomes soiled.
OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Appropriate objects designed to receive the spoon are available commercially for locating on the cooking hob or in its vicinity. However such objects, on receiving the spoon, also become soiled and have to be washed.
U.S. Pat No. 1,580,532 discloses a handle for a cooking utensil, comprising on its outer and, i.e. the end opposite to that connected to the cooking utensil, a seat which permits to suspend a spoon over the handle. The main drawback of this handle is that, once the spoon is connected to the handle, the latter may no longer be held, and therefore the cooking utensil may no longer be moved. Moreover, as the seat is provided on the outer end of the handle, the widened part of the spoon, is suspended at least partially over the handle unless it has an extremely long handgrip. Therefore, if the spoon is soiled it may drip over the handle, soiling it.
The main object of the present invention is to solve in a simple and comfortable manner the problem of where to rest the spoon once soiled, without soiling the cooking hob, plates or the like.
A further object is to ensure that the spoon does not become ruined as a result of its contact with the upper edge of the cooking utensil.
The aforesaid main object is attained by the cooking utensil handle according to the present invention, characterised in that in correspondence with or in the vicinity of that of its ends connected to the cooking utensil there is provided a seat into which the free end of the handgrip of a spoon can be inserted a certain distance so that the widened part of this latter becomes located above the cooking utensil at a height less than the remaining part of the spoon, but not such that the spoon can withdraw from said seat by gravity. In this manner the spoon, when inserted into the seat provided in the handle, assumes a position in which, even if soiled with sauces or condiments causing consequent dripping, the droplets fall directly into the cooking utensil, without resultant soiling.
Preferably the seat is shaped in such a manner as to maintain the spoon spaced from the upper edge of the cooking utensil, to prevent the spoon undergoing damage or burning if of wood or another material which degrades on making contact with the hot cooking utensil. In this manner the other object of the invention is also attained.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will be more apparent from the description of one embodiment thereof given hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a first perspective view of a frying pan provided with the handle according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a second perspective view thereof taken from a different viewpoint, with a wooden spoon inserted into the hole;
FIG. 3 is a third perspective view thereof with the spoon again present; and
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a frying pan provided with a modified handle according to the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
As can be seen from FIGS. 1 to 3, the frying pan 10 is provided with a handle 12 extending radially observing the frying pan from the top downwards, the end 13 (FIG. 2) of the hand
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Moy Joseph M.
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