Nonstick Inner Surface Patents (Class 220/573.2)
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Patent number: 7765919Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Lifetime Brands, Inc.Inventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
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Publication number: 20100181322Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: SEB SAInventors: Jean-Luc Perillon, Aurelien Dubanchet
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Publication number: 20100140276Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: SEB SAInventors: Pascal Cuillery, Jean-François Brassett, Fabrice Parsent, Pierre-Jean Muller
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Publication number: 20100044382Abstract: An article includes a fabric and a fluoropolymer coating layer on the fabric. The fabric is a woven fabric including yarns.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventor: Graham Woerner
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Publication number: 20100001006Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventor: Thomas James Workens
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Patent number: 7622197Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Ferroxy-Aled, LLCInventors: Robert A. Balow, Donald E. Whyte
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Publication number: 20090206093Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventor: Juan M. Knight
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Publication number: 20080308562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITEDInventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan, Tanveer Khan
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Publication number: 20080308561Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITEDInventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan, Tanveer Khan
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Publication number: 20080237241Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Jean-Pierre Buffard, Claudine Gardaz
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Publication number: 20080217341Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Dennis Scott Wolever, Richard Patrick Egnor, John David Wood, Michael Edwin Mullaney, Gregory Howard Westfall
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Publication number: 20080210693Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Steve Hoffman, Robert E. Cannuscio
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Publication number: 20080185388Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventor: Jingao Hu
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Publication number: 20080142526Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: MEYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LIMITEDInventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Mang Hung Chan
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Publication number: 20080105689Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2004Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: JILIN UNIVERSITYInventors: Luquan Ren, Xiaoming Qiu, Qingping Liu, Guilan Zhang, Zhanrong Cui, Hongxiu Yang, Liang Ge
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Patent number: 7208231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: All-Clad Metalcrafters LLCInventor: William A. Groll
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Patent number: 7201358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Alcoa Inc.Inventors: Monica Stautner Nichols, Bruce Robbins, G. Douglas Powell, Jennifer Danich O'Flynn
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Patent number: 7021202Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Inventor: Latoya E. Sizer
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Patent number: 7011014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Inventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
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Patent number: 6942120Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: John S. Trent, Thayer A. Brown, Jr., Kent B. McReynolds, Jeffrey T. Brown
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Patent number: 6926971Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: All-Clad Metalcrafters LLCInventor: William A. Groll
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Patent number: 6820541Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Lifetime Hoan CorporationInventors: Jeff Siegel, Adam Krent, David Linn Burnett, William J. Lazaroff
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Publication number: 20040229079Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventor: William A. Groll
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Patent number: 6802432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: First Enamel Industrial Corp.Inventor: Liu Shu Tien
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Patent number: 6793093Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Inventor: Tung-Hung Tsai
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Patent number: 6749081Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Meyer Manufacturing Company LimitedInventor: Stanley Kin-Sui Cheng
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Patent number: 6544669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Clad Metals LLCInventor: William A. Groll
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Publication number: 20020040905Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Applicant: Clad Metals LLCInventor: William A. Groll
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Patent number: 6360423Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Clad Metals LLCInventor: William A. Groll
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Publication number: 20010043977Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventor: Jose Maria Llorente Hompanera
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Patent number: 6248435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 1998Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Thomas J. Leck
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Patent number: 6228915Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Cornelis Johannes Lensvelt, Jan Paul Penning, Robert Puyenbroek
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Patent number: 6197359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Lekue, S.L.Inventor: Jose′ Maria Llorente Hompanera