Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Utility Patent
2000-06-10
2001-01-02
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
C099S403000, C099S410000, C099S415000, C099S417000, C099S418000
Utility Patent
active
06167799
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a tamale and vegetable steaming device and more particularly pertains to allowing tamales and vegetables to be steamed while easily monitoring water levels to prevent burning.
The use of steaming devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, steaming devices heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of steaming foods are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,317,017 to Bowen discloses a steamer comprised of a transparent dish in the bottom for holding water; however, the invention is primarily intended for microwave cooking. U.S. Pat. No. 5,195,424 to Guajaca discloses a steamer comprised of horizontally stacked racks adapted for steaming tamales. U.S. Pat. No. 5,097,753 to Naft discloses a steam cooking device with a liquid reservoir in the base.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objective and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a tamale and vegetable steaming device for allowing tamales and vegetables to be steamed while easily monitoring water levels to prevent burning.
In this respect, the tamale and vegetable steaming device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing tamales and vegetables to be steamed while easily monitoring water levels to prevent burning.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which can be used for allowing tamales and vegetables to be steamed while easily monitoring water levels. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of steaming devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved tamale and vegetable steaming device. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a cylindrical pot portion having an open upper end and a closed lower end. The cylindrical pot portion is fabricated of a transparent material. The pot portion has a pair of diametrically opposed handles extending outwardly therefrom downwardly of the open upper end. The pot portion has an annular line extending therearound upwardly of the closed lower end. The open upper end has an annular lip extending outwardly therefrom. The pot portion includes a cover portion dimensioned for positioning over the open upper end. The cover portion has a handle secured thereto. A cylindrical insert is positionable within the cylindrical pot portion. The cylindrical insert has an open upper end, a closed lower end, and a cylindrical side wall therebetween. The cylindrical side wall has a plurality of apertures therethrough in a spaced relationship. The open upper end has an annular lip extending outwardly therefrom. The annular lip rests on the annular lip of the pot portion whereby the closed lower end of the insert is elevated above the closed lower end of the pot portion. The insert has a flattened arc portion extending a height thereof. The flattened arc portion creates a separation between the insert and the pot portion whereby water can be added to the pot portion through the separation. The flattened arc portion has a handle extending outwardly thereof adjacent to the open upper end of the insert.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which has all the advantages of the prior art steaming devices and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such a tamale and vegetable steaming device economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device for allowing tamales and vegetables to be steamed while easily monitoring water levels.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved tamale and vegetable steaming device including a cylindrical pot portion having an open upper end and a closed lower end. A cylindrical insert is positionable within the cylindrical pot portion. The cylindrical insert has an open upper end, a closed lower end, and a cylindrical side wall therebetween. The cylindrical side wall has a plurality of apertures therethrough in a spaced relationship. The insert being positioned within the pot portion whereby the closed lower end of the insert is elevated above the closed lower end of the pot portion. The insert has a flattened arc portion extending a height thereof. The flattened arc portion creates a separation between the insert and the pot portion whereby water can be added to the pot portion through the separation.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there is illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
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Simone Timothy F.
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