Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Intercontrol or safety control
Patent
1994-07-27
1995-06-27
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Intercontrol or safety control
99403, 220316, 220325, A47J 2708, A47J 2709, B65D 4500, B65D 4534
Patent
active
054270146
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to cooking vessels.
2. Background Art
The handling of cooking vessels is considered very often as somewhat inconvenient. Thus, it is an object of this invention to provide a cooking vessel of this kind which is especially easy to handle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, we have developed a cooking vessel which includes a container and a lid having an inner lid part and an upper lid part. The container includes a bent peripheral container rim and the lid includes at least three single lock elements peripherally arranged around the rim of the inner part which are swivellingly deposed and serve for locking the cooking vessel. The rim area of the upper lid part is shaped to produce a swivel movement of the lock elements by pushing the upper lid part against them. The lock elements are supported at the outer rim of the inner lid part in such a way that the lock elements, in the swivel position corresponding to the closed state, press with ends from the outside against the container rim. In the swivel position corresponding to the open state, the ends of the lock elements are at a distance from the container rim such that an unhindered lifting of the inner lid part from the container is possible. The lock elements, in a cross-section perpendicular to their axis of rotation, are formed approximately C-shaped, with an increasing wall width in the upper left hand C-area and with a tapered hook-like part in the lower right hand C-area.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention is described below in detail by examples with the help of drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic partial representation in a cross section along an axis of symmetry of a first embodiment of a cooking vessel according to the invention having a lock element in an open position;
FIG. 2 is a schematic partial representation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 having the lock element in a closed position;
FIG. 3 is a schematic partial representation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 along a plane perpendicular to the axis of symmetry;
FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of a detail of a bayonet catch for the outer lid of the cooking vessel shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a schematic representation from above of a lock element for the cooking vessel shown in FIG. 1 in the assembled state;
FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of the lock element in FIG. 1 and located in the area of a tongue of the inner lid rim;
FIG. 7 is a detail representation in a side view of the lock element shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 8 is a schematic partial representation in a cross section along an axis of symmetry of a second embodiment of a cooking vessel according to the invention having a lock element in an open position;
FIG. 9 is a schematic partial representation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 8 with the lock element in a closed position;
FIG. 10 is a schematic partial representation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 8 along a plane perpendicular to the axis of symmetry;
FIG. 11 is a side view of a further embodiment of a lock element according to the invention and having a shoulder and a recess;
FIG. 12 is a top view of the lock element according to FIG. 11, the bearing head of which is provided with two disk-like axially arranged extensions;
FIG. 13 is a schematic partial representation of a cooking vessel having a lock element according to FIG. 11 in an open position;
FIG. 14 is a schematic partial representation of a cooking vessel having a lock element according to FIG. 11 in a closed position;
FIG. 15 is a detail representation of a bearing part having bent lobes provided with a round recess for a lateral fixation of such a disk-like extension of the lock element according to FIG. 12; and
FIG. 16 is a partial representation of an embodiment of a lid rim, in which a spring is tensioned by means of a bolt.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The cooking vessel shown in FIG. 1 comprises a container 1 having a bent peripheral container rim 2, an inner lid 3 having a
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Beck Hans-Jurgen
von der Becke Reinhard
AMC International Alfa Metalcraft Corporation AG
Simone Timothy F.
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