Abstract: A valve, which opens upon a not permissible underpressure in a cooking utensil and upon a manual operation and which is stored in the lid of the cooking utensil suffices, without a valve spring and with a minimum of structural parts, when its flexible valve plate consists in one piece of a pressure part for manual operation and a seal collar, for abutment on a valve seat, and a connecting corpus therebetween. The seal collar is swivelled upon an overload on a swivel edge of the valve member and disengages from the abutment on the valve seat thus opening the valve.

Abstract: A fastening mechanism for a handle on a cooking utensil should also have a releasable design for certain uses, for example, when the cooking utensil is heated up in a closed oven. A release and subsequent reconnection of a handle thereby should be done quickly and without effort, and the fastening mechanism for the handle moreover should be easy to manufacture. The fastening mechanism uses for this purpose an operating piece, which can be adjusted transversely with respect to the longitudinal extent of a handle piece in such a fastening mechanism. During the handling of which operating piece, a locking of the handle piece on a holding piece is released, which handle piece is covered by the handle piece and is connected to the cooking utensil. A renewed slipping over of the handle piece occurs against a light resiliency resulting from a transfer slope on a spring piece which also is used for the locking.

Abstract: It is difficult in utensils manufactured by die casting or injection molding, for example cooking utensils of an aluminum alloy, to directly fasten a support arm on which in turn a handle piece can be fastened. Therefore, holding bars are needed in most cases, to which the support arm is welded or screwed. The holding bars must be inserted during casting and are during casting always in danger of being washed away. Other solutions, which do away with such holding bars, require an additional operation in order to fasten the support arm on a suitably designed attachment on the utensil. The invention avoids additional structural parts and ties a support arm during the casting operation with a specially designed holding piece into a boss.

Abstract: A utensil having a detachable handle member. The front end portion of the handle member and an associated mounting zone on the utensil have a detachable, matching snap-on device which includes at least one substantially vertical cavity and a corresponding vertical latch component that is adapted to be introduced into the cavity, the latter as well as the latch component being in an upper region of the front end portion of handle member, whereas locking means for detachably connecting the handle member to the utensil are provided in a lower region of the front end portion of handle member.