Nonstick Inner Surface Patents (Class 220/573.2)
  • Patent number: 7765919
    Abstract: A substantially flat, heat-resistant baking sheet has a baking surface, a rolled periphery and a baking area within that periphery. The baking area has numerous through-holes. A generally upright wall, integrally formed with the sheet, extends along the first part of the periphery, defining an upper edge. The height of the wall varies from a maximum to a minimum predetermined height, and the wall substantially encloses the baking area along the first part of the periphery. In the example shown, the baking sheet is rectangular: the wall extends along three sides and the fourth side has no wall. A baked product can be slid or pushed off this fourth side without being lifted, the side serving as a slide-off chute or ramp. Condensation between the baking sheet and the baked product evacuates through the holes to allow the surface against the sheet to bake to a crisper consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Lifetime Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
  • Publication number: 20100181322
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to anti-stick coatings for cooking utensils, which exhibit improved properties of hydrophobicity and resistance to high temperature. The present invention also relates to a culinary article comprising a support coated in said coating, and a process for applying on the support such a coating according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Perillon, Aurelien Dubanchet
  • Publication number: 20100140276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a culinary item comprising a dished body defining a bottom and a lateral wall, and provided with an inner surface for receiving food and an outer surface for positioning next to the heat source, at least one of the surfaces of the lateral wall being covered by an anodising layer and the outer surface of the bottom being at least partially enamelled. The invention also relates to a method for producing one such item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventors: Pascal Cuillery, Jean-François Brassett, Fabrice Parsent, Pierre-Jean Muller
  • Publication number: 20100044382
    Abstract: An article includes a fabric and a fluoropolymer coating layer on the fabric. The fabric is a woven fabric including yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Graham Woerner
  • Publication number: 20100001006
    Abstract: This utility is a non-stick surface that will be used for cookware and cookware utensils, as well as any device used for food preparation, in which foods have the potential of sticking to the cooking surface, and surfaces used that will come in contact with cooking foods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: Thomas James Workens
  • Patent number: 7622197
    Abstract: A method, and an article produced thereby, of providing a corroson-resistant, scratch-resistant, and stick-resistant, surface on a ferrous-metal-containing article, including forming microcavities in a ferrous-metal-containing article surface by ferritic nitrocarburization and seasoning the surface, including a non-stick agent deposited thereon. In preferred embodiments, the surface of the article including the exposed microcavities is oxidized before seasoning. The article includes cookware. Certain preferred embodiments include forming microcavities by ferritic nitrocarburization wherein the article is heated in an atmosphere including ammonia, nitrogen, and carbon-containing gas to a nitriding temperature of between about 800° F. and about 1300° F. for a time of about 0.5 hours to about 10 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Ferroxy-Aled, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Balow, Donald E. Whyte
  • Publication number: 20090206093
    Abstract: A self-contained high-temperature non-stick cooking device includes a heat-conducting platform having a first side and a second side, and a hardened layer on the first side of the heat-conducting platform and having a polished surface, and a non-stick layer on the polished surface, and a non-reflective coating disposed on the second side of the heat-conducting platform, and a heat source adjacent to the non-reflective black-body coating for heating the heat-conducting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Juan M. Knight
  • Publication number: 20080308562
    Abstract: An article of cookware is assembled by the rivet attachment of a handle. The rivets are simultaneously attached to both the cookware vessel and the handle. The co-aligned holes for receiving the rivet in the wall of the cooking vessel and the handle flange are bevel such that exterior of the rivet is relatively flush with the interior of the cookware article and the exterior of the handle flange. Deformation of the rivet head also deforms the beveled edges of the through hole in the cookware article, locking it with the corresponding portion of the handle flange through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan, Tanveer Khan
  • Publication number: 20080308561
    Abstract: An article of cookware is assembled by the riveted attachment of a handle. Novel rivets are first attached from the interior of the cookware article via a flush hole such that the deformation of the cookware article around the rivet locks the rivet to the cookware article yet leaves the rivet head flush with the interior surface of the cookware article. The handle is subsequently attached by deforming the opposite end of the rivet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan, Tanveer Khan
  • Publication number: 20080237241
    Abstract: A culinary article formed from a metal support and a non-stick coating deposited at least on the surface of the metal support constituting the interior of the culinary article, where the non-stick coating includes at least two coats based on fluorocarbonated resin, with one of these two coats, which covers at least the worked surface of the interior of the culinary article, being a discontinuous coat forming patterns. Any cross section of the culinary article, at least at its worked surface, has regular interruptions in the plane of the discontinuous coat, and each pattern has an area of at least 1 mm2, in a top view of the interior of the culinary article. The composition of the discontinuous coat formed by the patterns can include at least one fluorocarbonated resin, in addition to fillers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Buffard, Claudine Gardaz
  • Publication number: 20080217341
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward an apparatus for preparing food products. Specifically, a hygienic baking pan comprises a panel having a continuously formed structure comprising at least two sides. The hygienic baking pan may also comprise a frame joined to the panel and/or a plurality of concave molds formed therein. Additionally, the present disclosure includes methods for manufacturing an apparatus for preparing food products. The method includes manufacturing a single continuous sheet of metal material to form a tray having a top surface and two sides, forming the metal material sheet to form a plurality of concave molds therein, and joining a frame to the metal material sheet, wherein a gap is formed between the frame and the metal material sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Dennis Scott Wolever, Richard Patrick Egnor, John David Wood, Michael Edwin Mullaney, Gregory Howard Westfall
  • Publication number: 20080210693
    Abstract: A cooking device including a permeable cooking layer having an outer cooking side and an inner side on the opposite surface from the outer side. A plurality of apertures are formed through the cooking layer from the inner side to the outer side. A heating layer is located adjacent to the inner side of the cooking layer. A plurality of passages are formed between the heating layer and the cooking layer so as to channel a non-stick fluid beneath the cooking layer. A non-stick fluid reservoir is in fluid communication with the passages. The reservoir adapted to store a non-stick fluid. In one embodiment, the non-stick fluid is a liquid hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Steve Hoffman, Robert E. Cannuscio
  • Publication number: 20080185388
    Abstract: The invention provides a non-soot pot, comprising pot body. The pot further comprises the even thermal layer with the lower thermal conductivity than that of the pot body located on the inner surface of the pot body. The aluminum alloy or magnesium alloy with higher thermal conductivity is used as pot body for rapid heating in the present invention and the Zhisha ceramic with lower thermal conductivity or stainless steel is sintered or compounded as even thermal layer on the inner surface of the pot body again. The local high temperature in the pot body will be dispersed to the whole even thermal layer so as to no local high temperature in the pot body, no soot and save energy. Some tiny convex structures are provided on even thermal layer with air in the cavity between them. After heating the air expands so as to separate food from the pot body and achieve the physical nonstick effect. This physical nonstick structure can achieve better nonstick effect than the original chemical coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Jingao Hu
  • Publication number: 20080142526
    Abstract: A cookware vessel is formed primarily of an aluminum shell. The bottom of the shell has a thick layer of a thermally conductive material, such as copper and/or additional aluminum, to build up a plate. A surrounding cap, preferably made of or containing ferromagnetic materials, such as stainless steel, in turn protects this plate. The exterior surface is coated with an exterior protective, and preferably non-stick coating. This coating itself is protected from overheating by the thermally conductive material and the cap structure. In more preferred embodiments, the aluminum shell is anodized such that with the exterior protective coating it is safe to clean the cookware vessel in a dishwasher with all types of detergents. The cookware vessel may be used with conventional flame or electric heating element stovetops, as well as induction cooking ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan
  • Publication number: 20080105689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a non-stick cooking utensil, wherein protrusions are arranged on interior wall of the utensil to form a non-smooth surface, said protrusion has a height of 20-999 ?m and a projection area of 314-783431 ?m2 with respect to the interior surface of the utensil, the protrusions are so distributed that the total projection area of protrusions on the surface of the interior wall is about 10%-60% of the surface area, a coating film is formed on said non-smooth surface with protrusions. As compared with utensils with smooth surface, the sticking intensity and stickiness between foods and the utensil of present invention may be decreased by 60%-80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: JILIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Luquan Ren, Xiaoming Qiu, Qingping Liu, Guilan Zhang, Zhanrong Cui, Hongxiu Yang, Liang Ge
  • Patent number: 7208231
    Abstract: Cookware having improved uniform heat transfer over the entire cross section thereof, the cookware formed from a multi-layered composite metal having a layer of stainless steel roll bonded at or near the core of the composite. The stainless layer is roll bonded to layers of aluminum which, in turn, is roll bonded to layers of stainless steel or aluminum. The layer of stainless steel adjacent to the cooking range may be a ferromagnetic grade of stainless steel if induction-type heating is desired. The cookware may include a non-stick surface applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: All-Clad Metalcrafters LLC
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Patent number: 7201358
    Abstract: A self-supporting baking mold that includes a base member having a fanciful shape with a perimeter that is more complex than a simple circle and a depending sidewall coupled to said base member. The baking mold is sufficiently rigid to support a quantity of batter without being disposed in a muffin pan or other external supporting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Alcoa Inc.
    Inventors: Monica Stautner Nichols, Bruce Robbins, G. Douglas Powell, Jennifer Danich O'Flynn
  • Patent number: 7021202
    Abstract: A disposable pan, pot, or kettle liner system for deep-frying foods and includes a disposable pot liner and a disposable strainer fitting into the pot liner made of thin aluminum, aluminum alloy or other metal material having a stiffness adequate to be free-standing upon filling with cooking oil and heating to cooking temperatures while being sufficiently inexpensive to be disposable after use. The strainer is made of similar material and fits within the liner, holding foods to be cooked, and has a circular, flange-like upper rim extending upward, beyond the rim of the liner, to serve as a handle for lifting and straining the cooked food from the liner. The inventive disposable system is designed to be used within a non-disposable pot or kettle, but is freestanding. The system may also be used as a stand-alone unit directly on a heating surface such as a stove heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: Latoya E. Sizer
  • Patent number: 7011014
    Abstract: A cookie baking sheet is formed of substantially flat heat-resistant material including a baking surface in a first plane and defining a rolled peripheral edge and a baking area within the peripheral edge. A generally upright wall is integrally formed with the sheet material and extends along only a first portion of the periphery. This wall defines an upper edge contained within a second plane that is inclined relative to and meeting the first plane substantially along a second portion of the periphery. The upright wall is provided with a variable vertical height from a maximum predetermined height to a minimum predetermined height relative to said first plane. This variable height wall substantially encloses the baking area along the first portion of the peripheral edge. In the disclosed embodiment the baking sheet is rectangular and the upright wall extends along three of the sides while the fourth side is not founded by a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
  • Patent number: 6942120
    Abstract: A thermoplastic bakeware article (i.e., an article formed to hold, contain or support food, while being heated in a microwave, conventional oven, convection oven, or the like) that is food-grade and resistant to dripping, stringing, and melting at high temperatures. The article has a composition comprising a partially crystalline polyester resin and a phenoxy resin. The composition is formulated so as to allow cross-linking between the polyester resin and the phenoxy resin at temperatures above about 400° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Trent, Thayer A. Brown, Jr., Kent B. McReynolds, Jeffrey T. Brown
  • Patent number: 6926971
    Abstract: Cookware having improved uniform heat transfer over the entire cross section thereof, the cookware formed from a multi-layered composite metal having a layer of titanium roll bonded at or near the core of the composite. The titanium layer is roll bonded to layers of aluminum which, in turn, is roll bonded to layers of stainless steel. The layer of stainless steel adjacent to the cooking range may be a ferritic stainless steel if induction-type heating is desired. The multi-layered composite is also suitable for making a sole plate for an iron. Both the cookware and sole plate may include a non-stick surface applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: All-Clad Metalcrafters LLC
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Patent number: 6820541
    Abstract: A cookie baking sheet is formed of substantially flat heat-resistant material including a baking surface in a first plane and defining a rolled peripheral edge and a baking area within the peripheral edge. A generally upright wall is integrally formed with the sheet material and extends along only a first portion of the periphery. This wall defines an upper edge contained within a second plane that is inclined relative to and meeting the first plane substantially along a second portion of the periphery. The upright wall is provided with a variable vertical height from a maximum predetermined height to a minimum predetermined height relative to said first plane. This variable height wall substantially encloses the baking area along the first portion of the peripheral edge. In the disclosed embodiment the baking sheet is rectangular and the upright wall extends along three of the sides while the fourth side is not founded by a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Lifetime Hoan Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
  • Publication number: 20040229079
    Abstract: Induction cookware made from a composite metal sheet comprising a layer of a ferromagnetic material and an outer decorative metal layer of copper, anodized, brushed or polished aluminum, or the like. The decorative outer layer has a thickness at least on the bottom wall thereof of between 0.0002 to 0.003 inch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Patent number: 6802432
    Abstract: An enamel cooking ware, of which the cooking ware's body consists of an inner coating layer, an outer coating layer, and the cooking ware's body; wherein, the cooking ware body is made of stainless steel, and a dense mass of small concaves with small sizes is formed on its surface. Both of the inner and outer coating layers are enamel layers; such enamel cooking ware, of which the thickness of cooking ware's body can be greatly reduced, the covering capability of the enamel-surface layer also can be enhanced greatly, and the weight can be lowered substantially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: First Enamel Industrial Corp.
    Inventor: Liu Shu Tien
  • Patent number: 6793093
    Abstract: An anti-stick cookware is manufactured by a process including a step of spinning a metal plate made of an aluminum alloy to form a cookware body having a bottom portion, a side portion extending upward from the bottom portion, and an inner cooking surface defined by the bottom and side portions. The side portion of the cookware body has a thickness thinner than that of the bottom portion of the cookware body. The thickness of the bottom portion of the cookware is at least 2.5 mm, and the thickness of the side portion of the cookware is at least 1.8 mm. The thickness of the side portion is 30%-64% of that of the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventor: Tung-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 6749081
    Abstract: A method of surface treating a cookware article formed of aluminum or aluminum alloy, comprises the steps of applying a first coating of porcelain enamel to the exterior of the article; subjecting the interior of the article to hard-anodizing; and applying a second coating of porcelain enamel over the first coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Meyer Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventor: Stanley Kin-Sui Cheng
  • Patent number: 6544669
    Abstract: A method of making cookware and bakeware having a stick resistant and mar resistant cook surface comprising the steps of providing a cooking utensil having a cook surface, and cryogenically treating the cooking utensil at one or more selected temperatures comprising −100° F. to −300° F. or lower to harden said cook surface. The cooking utensil may have a bare metal cook surface, or it may be coated with a stick resistant coating such as one of a PTFE, metal nitride or sulfide coating or combinations thereof prior to the cryogenic hardening treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Clad Metals LLC
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Publication number: 20020040905
    Abstract: A method of making cookware and bakeware having a stick resistant and mar resistant cook surface comprising the steps of providing a cooking utensil having a cook surface, and cryogenically treating the cooking utensil at one or more selected temperatures comprising −100° F. to −300° F. or lower to harden said cook surface. The cooking utensil may have a bare metal cook surface, or it may be coated with a stick resistant coating such as one of a PTFE, metal nitride or sulfide coating or combinations thereof prior to the cryogenic hardening treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Clad Metals LLC
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Patent number: 6360423
    Abstract: A method for making a stick resistant cook surface or cooking vessel having the stick resistance in which a hard substrate metal is buffed/polished to a high luster surface finish of less than 20 micro inches and then coated with a layer of zirconium nitride. The method further includes the step of polishing a stamped blank to the desired surface smoothness prior to the drawing/shaping step to provide a stick resistant surface in cooking vessels having side walls, such as pots and pans, which are otherwise difficult to buff in the interior due to the side wall geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Clad Metals LLC
    Inventor: William A. Groll
  • Publication number: 20010043977
    Abstract: Use of silicone for the manufacturing of confectionery molds and baking receptacles in general. The silicone may be a heat-curable elastomer of the type intended for applications in contact with foodstuffs, advantageously methyl-vinyl-polysiloxane, and it may be obtained by a process of cross-linking with platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventor: Jose Maria Llorente Hompanera
  • Patent number: 6248435
    Abstract: An improved heat transfer release finish on cookware is formed by coating the cookware interior (sidewall and flat bottom) with a mixture of fluoropolymer and magnetic flakes and magnetically orienting said flakes to run in the thickness direction of the coating, followed by baking the coating. Advantageously, the coating mixture also contains compatibilizing polymer which enables the flakes to be so-oriented without creating minute fissures in the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Leck
  • Patent number: 6228915
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods for reducing food deposit adhesion to cookware. More specifically this invention relates to a resin composition having a glass transition temperature of at least 180° C. containing an amount of at least one additive selected from fatty acid esters, fatty acid amide, anionic surfactant, or a mixture containing at least one of the foregoing to reduce food deposit adhesion on cookware made from the composition. The invention also relates to a method for providing plastic cookware having reduced food deposit adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Cornelis Johannes Lensvelt, Jan Paul Penning, Robert Puyenbroek
  • Patent number: 6197359
    Abstract: Use of silicone for the manufacturing of confectionery molds and baking receptacles in general. The silicone may be a heat-curable elastomer of the type intended for applications in contact with foodstuffs, advantageously methyl-vinyl-polysiloxane, and it may be obtained by a process of cross-linking with platinum. The operation of removal of the baked product from the mold is simplified; further, the molds can be easily made in any desired shapes and handling of the molds is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Lekue, S.L.
    Inventor: Jose′ Maria Llorente Hompanera