Abstract: A multiple unit wok apparatus is provided for simultaneously cooking separate ingredients and, when cooked, the ingredients can be easily mixed together if desired. The individual wok units are attached together.

Abstract: A pot with improved configuration comprises a lid, a pot body, a positioning plate and clipping plate which are all made from plastic material. The lid has a positioning block at one end and a retaining block at the other end. A receiving support is disposed at the top portion of the pot body. The retaining block of the lid is pivoted to the receiving support by a pin member. This pot body further comprises a pivoting block and stopping plate at the circumference. Those positioning plate and clipping plate are pivoted to the pot body by a pair of pins. A retaining block is provided at the top of the positioning plate with respect to the shape of the positioning block. A cutout is provided at the underside of the retaining block. This cutout further includes a pair of pivoting holes thereof. A tab member is provided at the front portion of the clipping plate with respect to the cutout of the retaining block.

Abstract: A saucepan is provided which includes a base (1) delimited at its periphery by a rim (2), and a plate (4) arranged against the inner surface of the saucepan's base. The saucepan further includes a device which moves the plate away from the base. This moving device is actuated by a control member and is located between the plate and the base.

Abstract: A cookware cover is provided for standard size cookware of nominally varying diameters. Specifically, one cookware cover is provided that will adequately cover frying pans, sauce pans, stock pots and other cookware of one standard size and manufactured by a variety of manufacturers. One cookware cover is provided that will fit the variations of nominal conventional dimensions and rim configurations that exist from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Abstract: Cooking vessel provided with an imperforate base (6) having a face (6a) adapted to be exposed to a heat source (2). This face has a series of substantially radial grooves (7) and is substantially free from non-radial grooves. The depth of the radial grooves is within the range of one-quarter to one-half the thickness of the vessel base (6).

Abstract: A cooking device having an outer pot and an inner pot removally suspended in the outer pot is proposed for better and easier cooking of foodstuff. The inner pot is made of thermally conductive, metallic material and is adapted for initially cooking foodstuff with a separate heater for a short period of time. The outer pot is made into a thermally insulated construction and adapted to house the inner pot containing the semi-cooked foodstuff in the outer pot in a thermally insulated manner, so as to allow the semi-cooked foodstuff to complete the cooking by its own latent heat without a further heating by an external heat supply means.

Abstract: The invention is drawn to a double-walled cooking pot having an outer pot, and an inner pot arranged in said outer pot and having a side wall defining a continuous inner surface to receive the product to be cooked. The side walls of the outer pot and inner pot are connected to one another at their bottom portions by a bottom plate made of thermally conductive material and at their upper portions in a manner which forms a discharge rim. To provide a double-walled cooking pot in which it is possible to fasten rapidly and reliably the handle(s) to the side wall of the outer pot, it is provided in essence that the outer pot has a portion that is spaced from the inner pot; and, between the upper and bottom portions at which the inner and outer pots are connected, the side walls of the inner pot and the outer pot make only point or line contact with one another.

Abstract: A vacuum thermal cooker comprising an outer cooler, an inner cooker, a sealing lid unit and an insulating disc, the inner cooker being used for boiling food and then to be placed in the outer cooker sealed by the sealing lid unit and then the air in the outer cooker being sucked out by a separate simple sucking pump operated by hand, the interior of the outer cooker becoming vacuum so that the heat of the food and the inner cooker may be kept for a long period of time, not easily cooled off by function of the vacuum condition of the outer cooker.

Abstract: A cooking rack is provided for use with an aluminum foil pan. The rack comprises wire segments for supporting a food item to be cooked. The wire segments define a planar array and are disposed above the pan base. The rack includes a pair of oppositely disposed handles, including a hand grip overlying the pan rim and a clamp below the pan rim for clamping the rim therebetween. The clamp is movable to a retracted position for assembly of the pan to the cooking rack and for detaching the rack from the pan.

Abstract: A device for locking a cover of a kettle, the kettle being constituted by a pot (1), a removable cover (2) and a fixed handle (3). The device is a movable member disposed in the handle (3) and manually controlled, permitting maintaining the cover (2) closed and becoming inoperative at rest under the action of a return spring (6). The handle (3) has a recess (7) in which is disposed a pivotally mounted lever (4), comprising at one of its ends a portion (4a) that projects outside the recess (7) and is urged outwardly by the spring (6), and another end adapted to bear against the cover (2) to maintain it closed when the user presses manually on the projecting portion (4a) of the lever (4).

Abstract: The invention shows how a metal utensil with handles shaped onto the marginal portions thereof can be manufactured in a simple, material-saving manner. Such a utensil can be used in a more universal manner than conventional utensils.The metal utensil comprising the container part (10) and/or the lid part (15), with handles (4) for holding the utensil, is characterized in that the handle parts have at least one handle attachment (12) for fixing a handle (4) shaped onto the rim of the opening.As a result of the special shaping of the handle attachments a system utensil is obtained, with e.g. significantly improved stackability, reciprocal usability, e.g. bain marie cooking and more extensive uses, e.g. as a pouring, steaming or sieving vessel. Through shaping and the use of heat distributing laminated materials a local overheating in the vessel is virtually impossible and a uniform heat distribution over the entire vessel surface is ensured. The handle attachments 12, e.g.

Abstract: An expansion ring for expanding the size of an oven is disclosed. The expansion ring has a plurality of expansion ring segments which are connected together by one or more clips. The expansion ring segments have end portions which, when two segments are placed in end-to-end relation, form an engagement portion having first and second stops. The clip has a channel which engages the engagement portion so as to hold the expansion ring segments together and a finger projecting into the channel. According to this arrangement, the clip is slidable between a first position where the finger engages the first stop and a second position where the finger engages the second stop. In the first position, the expansion ring segments are locked together. In the second position, the segments may be separated, but the clip remains attached to one of the segments so that it will not be lost. An oven incorporating the expansion rings and clips of the present invention is also disclosed.

Abstract: A steam cooking utensil includes a base and a boiling liquid reservoir defined by the base. A heater is mounted in the base to heat liquid in the boiling liquid reservoir. A cooking bowl is supported by the base and includes a food support surface having a plurality of vent holes. An adjustable and removable divider basket is mounted in the cooking bowl and includes a food support surface aligned with the food support surface of the cooking bowl. The food support surface of the cooking bowl includes a plurality of vent holes for enabling steam formed in the boiling liquid reservoir to enter into the cooking bowl and into the divider basket. The divider basket comprises first and second sections movably connected to each other for enabling the use to adjust the effective cooking area of the cooking bowl and the divider basket. The divider basket includes handle means for enabling the user to remove the basket from the bowl.

Abstract: A stackable device is disclosed comprising a cooking vessel with tapered sidewalls, lid halves and a handle, whereby the lid halves slidably mount to the cookware vessel and contain apertures for draining and pouring excess liquid therefrom, and whereby the lid halves contain locking channels which interlock and mate with stacking leg projections depending downwardly from the bottom surface. Whereby once the lid halves are attached to the projections of the bottom surface, one unit may be placed within the cavity of another unit for stacking to accommodate convenient packaging, storage and display. In addition, by attaching the lid halves to the bottom surface of the cooking container, lids are prevented from being lost.

Abstract: In a heat insulating cooking vessel wherein a cooking pot with a lid element is contained in a freely removeable fashion within the inner space of a heat insulating container consisting of a heat insulating container and a lid which closes the mouth portion of this container member, the present invention comprises attachment shafts which are formed projecting outward from both side walls of the container member of the heat insulating container; a grip handle which is attached to the container member via the aforesaid attachment shafts and can be freely raised or lowered; a locking piece which is formed projecting outward from the side of the lid which is positioned above the attachment shafts when the container member is covered by the lid; a concave interlocking portion, which covers the locking piece when the container member is covered with the lid, and which is formed to the attachment parts of the handle grip attached to the sides of the container member; openings formed in the attachment parts of the af

Abstract: A multiple unit wok apparatus is provided for simultaneously cooking several separate ingredients and, when cooked, the ingredients from each wok bowl can be easily mixed together if desired. The individual wok units are attached together. The individual wok units each have mating lids which, when in place, mate with each wok bowl and form a sealing covering over the bowls.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cooking utensil comprising a round container for the food, the container comprising a base, a plate of heat-conducting material and a cap enclosing the plate. A plate is inserted into the enclosing cap and leaves an annular flow space between it and a preformed collar on the cap. The assembly of the container base, the plate and the cap is centered between the ram and die of a press and intermetallically bonded by single or multiple impulse pressure, so as to form the convex curvature of the cap bottom and to mold the rim of the cap collar around the vessel. During impulse pressure, the plate is pressed by plastic deformation into the flow space, where it is intermetallically bonded to the cap bottom, the cap collar and the corresponding region of the container. Use is made of a plate having a base member which is circular in plan view and has at least three centering projections on its rim, around its circular periphery.

Abstract: A double boiler container includes an interior wall spaced from an exterior wall having a fluid chamber therebetween accessed through a fill conduit through the outer side wall, with the fill conduit including a vent port. A modification of the invention includes the vent port arranged to include pressure relief structure positioned therewithin.

Abstract: There is described a set of cooking utensils consisting of at least first and second cooking utensils having different heights and identical opening widths, each cooking utensil having a bottom, a wall and an upper edge. For storing purposes, the second, higher cooking utensil is adapted to be inserted into the first, lower cooking utensil in such a way that the bottom of the second cooking utensil rests on the bottom of the first cooking utensil.

Abstract: A multiple purpose cooking utensil system. The cooking utensil system consists of a cooking utensil vessel preferably made of aluminum and a cooking utensil cover preferably made of stainless steel or non-metallic material. In addition to serving as a cooking utensil cover, the cooking utensil cover can be converted to serve as a general purpose food container and/or an utensil vessel for microwave cooking. Single or double bail handle members facilitate the conversion of the cooking utensil cover for the multiple usage. In a group consisting of two or more cooking utensil covers one cooking utensil cover can serve as a cover for another cooking utensil cover when the other cooking utensil cover is used as a food container. In this arrangement a handle member firmly holds the two cooking utensil covers together.

Abstract: A combination cooking rack and aluminum foil pan assembly. The rack comprises wire segments for supporting a food item to be cooked. The wire segments define a planar array and are disposed above the pan base. The rack includes a pair of oppositely disposed handles, including a hand grip overlying the pan rim and a clamp below the pan rim for clamping the rim therebetween. The clamp is movable to a retracted position for assembly of the pan to the cooking rack and for detaching the rack from the pan.

Abstract: A cooking vessel includes a vessel body having a spill rim extending outwardly and bent around the vessel body. A vessel handle is attached to a wall of the vessel body. A cover than can be set closingly on the spill rim has at least one cover handle. The vessel body and the cover form a spill and ventilation appliance. To guarantee a defined venting and a simple, more reliable, and also defined pouring with more reliable handling, the wall of the vessel body in at least one peripheral region of its upper rim has a larger slope than in remaining peripheral region of the rim due to shortening the spill rim. A rim of the cover in at least one peripheral segment has at least one arch projecting in a radial direction slope when correspondingly positioning the cover through rotation. The remaining peripheral region of the vessel wall without the larger slope has a circumferential length that is at least as large as the peripheral segment of the cover having the at least one arch.

Abstract: There is disclosed a steamer for tamales and other comestibles having a rack capable of supporting foods being cooked therein at an inclined orientation. The rack is provided with a number of horizontal tiers or assemblies each constructed of rings joined by radially positioned spokes. Corresponding rings within each of the rack's assemblies increase in size from the top to the bottom of the rack establishing conically shaped surfaces upon which comestibles may be positively supported at an incline. The spokes connecting the rings of each of the assemblies are vertically oriented one above the other and divide the rack into separate receptacles for segregating foods during cooking. Two or more racks may be stacked within the steamer's open-topped vessel thereby increasing its cooking capacity.

Abstract: A self-draining cooking pot, such as a pasta pot, which facilitates the draining of liquid. A handle assembly includes a valve module which is readily-removable to facilitate cleaning, and a strainer to block the passage of food into the valve while permitting the flow of liquid. Included as part of the removable valve module is a sliding shaft with a resilient sealing member mounted on one end, and the sealing member is spring-biased against a valve seat. The handle assembly also includes a trigger lever for manual actuation of the valve. To prevent inadvertent draining of the pot, a lock-closed device engages the trigger lever until released by a pushbutton. To facilitate removal of the readily-removable valve module, a similar lock-open device is provided for the sliding shaft.

Abstract: A standard cooking pot is provided with an interior crescent shaped wall. The crescent shaped wall fastens to the inside surface of the pot and is sloped upwardly and away from the pot bottom from a radius of constant elevation on the generally cylindrical pot wall. The wall is aligned so that the two end of the crescent shaped wall fall on a diameter or chord across the pot parallel to the axis of the pot handle(s). At the juncture of the crescent shaped wall to the inside cylindrical pot wall at least one narrow interval is defined to permit drainage of cooking liquid along the pot wall and under the sloped crescent shaped wall. Preferably, the narrow interval is irregular--defining intermittent large and small apertures--so that total plugging of the aperture flow is unlikely to occur.

Abstract: For a kitchen utensil, a handle comprising a fastening ring fastened on the body of a kitchen utensil, a locating plate mounted on said fastening ring with two opposite pairs of lugs extended outwards, a handle body secured to said opposite pairs of lugs by screws and gaskets, and a guard plate secured between said handle body and the body of said kitchen utensil, said guard plate having projecting strips set in front notches and stopped against inner flanges on said handle body, wherein said two opposite pairs of lugs of said locating plates define a space therebetween for dissipating heat.

Abstract: A mixing bowl of generally arcuate configuration and including laterally spaced stabilizing ribs extending along the outer surface thereof between the base and a mouth-defining rim. The ribs, upon an inclination of the bowl, continuously define a laterally extending support plane. The interior of the bowl is of a hard smooth material while the exterior thereof is of a non-slip friction-enhancing material. The open mouth of the bowl is surrounded by an outwardly flaring rim with a grip-enhancing undersurface.

Abstract: A coffeemaker with a stand and a carafe. The stand includes a receiving tray to hold the carafe and keep the coffee hot,a water heater, and a basket for holding ground coffee and receiving heated water. The carafe has two concentric chambers of about equal volume. The inner chamber receives freshly made coffee and holds it prior to pouring. The outer cylinder is a reservoir to hold water prior to its being heated to make coffee. After the coffee has been made, the outer chamber is empty and acts as an insulator for the coffee in the inner chamber. A water-receiving tube in the stand presses a valve on the reservoir, opening it, so that the water in the reservoir flows into a water heater in the stand and, after heating, is directed to the coffee-holding filter at the top of the stand.

Abstract: A multiple purpose cooking utensil system. The cooking utensil system consists of a cooking utensil vessel preferably made of aluminum and a cooking utensil cover preferably made of stainless steel or non-metallic material. In addition to serving as a cooking utensil cover, the cooking utensil cover can be converted to serve as a general purpose food container and/or an utensil vessel for microwave cooking. Single or double bail handle members facilitate the conversion of the cooking utensil cover for the multiple usage. In a group consisting of two or more cooking utensil covers one cooking utensil cover can serve as a cover for another cooking utensil cover when the other cooking utensil cover is used as a food container. In this arrangement a handle member firmly holds the two cooking utensil covers together.

Abstract: In a cooking pan with a capsular base the lateral wall of the protection covering of the capsular base is shaped with raised portions and/or depressions obtained by providing corresponding recesses and/or projections in the relative region of the die of the mould used to produce the capsular base.

Abstract: A pan cover for covering a cooking pan, comprising a cover plate retained in between a top member and a bottom member, wherein a plurality of parallel slots are respectively made on said top and bottom members and aligned with each other, and a smoke absorber is retained between said top and bottom member to absorb smoke coming below. The cover plate is made from transparent, reinforced fiber glass the inside can be clearly seen.

Abstract: A water kettle is equipped with a handle, a first end of which is joined to lower regions of the side of the kettle by a hinge, and a second end of which is fitted on the diametrically opposite side with a spout lid for covering (and opening) the kettle's spout. When the kettle is in the rest position, as a result of its weight the handle will drop until the handle comes to stop on the spout and the spout lid covers the spout opening. When the kettle is lifted by the handle or tipped into the pouring position, the handle swings back to a stop in the spout and the associated spout lid is removed from the spout opening. Following this swiveling movement, the raised spout lid is brought into a position which deflects steam flowing out of the spout opening in such a way that a user's hand holding the handle is not directly exposed to the steam. The spout lid is provided with a device for emitting an acoustic signal when the boiling point is reached in the interior of the kettle.

Abstract: An energy conserving cooking or heating vessel assembly comprises an inner receptacle for receiving food or other materials to be cooked or heated and a cylindrical skirt or sleeve of larger diameter than the inner receptacle extending downwardly from a predetermined height on the side walls of the inner receptacle. The sleeve has an open lower end which is of larger diameter than a stove top recess for a gas burner or electric heating element, and the lower end is designed to rest on the flat surface of a stove top surrounding a burner or electric element recess to form an enclosed volume surrounding both the inner receptacle and the burner area below the inner receptacle. The skirt may be secured to the inner receptacle or may comprise a separate outer casing for receiving any conventional stove top vessel such as a saucepan or tea kettle.

Abstract: A double-walled cooking utensil provides inner and outer metal layers which are nested together and permanently connected along peripheral flanges. Each layer provides a planar bottom portion which cooperate with each other to define a thin chamber therebetween. A sheet of reflective aluminum is positioned in such chamber and resists the transfer of radiant heat from the bottom surface of the outer layer to the bottom surface of the inner layer which constitutes the cooking surface of the utensil. The reflective sheet is embossed with a grid of ribs which extend toward the outer layer and maintain a small spacing between the portions of the reflective layer between the ribs. The utensil promotes quality baking without requiring increased baking time, and produces bakery having more uniform texture and better color.

Abstract: A cooking utensil comprising a vessel with an upstanding side wall has a unitary, one-piece, metal handle which is bent to form an elongated, generally tubular, main portion having a transverse cross section which is generally C-shaped when rotated about its longitudinal axis approximately 90 degrees counterclockwise from its use orientation. Two convex legs project longitudinally from the vessel end of the main portion at opposite sides thereof and have the distal ends thereof bent laterally outwardly therefrom along substantially vertical bend lines to define attachment feet which are welded to the vessel side wall. The legs define therebetween an opening which extends longitudinally into the handle well beyond the periphery of the vessel and has a minimum width laterally of the handle substantially greater than the maximum lateral extent of either of the legs. Two arms curve toward each other from the distal end of the handle for cooperation therewith to define a loop.

Abstract: A holder for supporting one end of a utensil or the like above a surface of a container having an opening.

Abstract: A non-metallic unitary baking pan, and especially a baking pan made of plastic, including foam plastic, paper or plastic laminated paper in which a cake or cake-like product can be baked, which baking pan has portions thereof which are thicker and have greater insulating effect than other portions to more uniformly and evenly distribute the heat produced during the baking operation throughout the cake batter or dough being baked. Also disclosed is method for producing such a non-metallic unitary baking pan by means of heated mating dies under pressure the mating dies having portions spaced farther apart than other portions thereof to produce corresponding thicker portions in the pan so formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to pots or pans for cooking, etc. wherein the pots have rear and front sides of the same disposed at an angle less than 90 degrees and the lateral sides extend preferably perpendicularly to the bottom of the pot which is cylindrical, has a circular bottom and approaches an ellipse at the uppermost portion of the pot. The pot is provided with pair of handles permanently affixed to the lateral sides thereof and a detachable handle adapted to be hooked into secure engagement with the permanent handles for use by either right or left handed persons. A cover may be provided thereon.

Abstract: A cooking device including a deep pan having a funnel located centrally in the bottom thereof through which heat may rise and circulate in the interior areas of the pan. The pan may also include a griddle which acts as a cover, the heat funnel being adjacent the bottom surface of the griddle when the griddle is covering the pan. Heat may channel from the heat source through the heat funnel to evenly heat the bottom of the griddle as it evenly heats the interior of the pan. The invention also includes a novel handle arrangement on the griddle and pan. The handles are lockable in their upright position if desired in order to stabilize and prevent rotation of the griddle or pan when being lifted. A heat cone may also be placed over the heat funnel to somewhat insulate food inside the pan from direct contact with the heat funnel. A cover which will fit over the entire griddle surface, or alternatively, directly over the pan itself, is also included.

Abstract: A casserole dish and cover that cooperate to allow cooking in a vented and unvented condition as well as a controlled transition from a vented to an unvented state. The dish includes a cam ledge and the cover includes a lip that is rotatable and pivotable on the cam ledge to allow controlled venting and access to the interior of the dish.

Abstract: A cooking utensil for use on both gas, electric and induction stoves is provided composed of a container liner of stainless steel with a comparatively low wall thickness, a comparatively thick bottom plate of aluminum or a metal of similarly good heat-conducting properties and a bottom disc that is at least partially composed of magnetizable material disposed on the outside of the bottom plate. The bottom plate disposed on the outside bottom of the container and possibly the bottom disc disposed on the outside of the bottom plate can be attached by a commonly known hammer-press technique at an increased temperature preferably with an intermediate foil of aluminum or a material of similarly good heat-conducting properties. Particularly favorable results for cookware in terms of expansion reaction and corrosion have been achieved utilizing a bottom disc of a nickel alloy having the following composition: Ni: 50-100%; Cr: up to 6%; Mo: up to 6%; Cu: up to 14%; Mn: up to 6%; Si: up to 1.5%; C: up to 0.

Abstract: A picnic cooking assembly includes a skillet, a cooking pan, and a kettle. The cooking pan nests within the skillet and the kettle nests within the skillet over the cooking pan. The cooking pan, inverted, fits over the skillet to form a food storage container. Moreover, the kettle is formed with a spout covered with a cap which is also securable to the kettle as a handle. Attached to the skillet is a handle which, when the cooking assembly is assembled, fits over and around the kettle, locking the cooking assembly together.

Abstract: A bread pan having corrugated top, bottom and side walls permits the baking f loaves having a generally accordion-like shape, such loaves being to some degree pressable without fracture. The pan has a bottom portion and a cooperating lid with the interface there between defining a seal which may be interrupted as a result of an increase of pressure within the pan to thereby release steam during baking.

Abstract: A rice bowl, which comprises a plurality layers of plastic films smoothly secured thereto by means of a retainer ring and covering over the deep, rounded body thereof. The plastic films can be split off one after another each time after meal, so that the rice bowl can be repeatedly used without the need to wash.

Abstract: An apparatus defining a baking pan, including a planar floor, with a surrounding water chamber mounted about the floor defined by coaxially aligned internal and external walls, with a fill-spout cooperative between the walls to effect filling of the defined chamber by a fluid such as water. Modifications of the instant invention include the chamber open at its upper end defining an annulus cooperative with a lid defined by a complementary annulus aligned with the lower chamber to permit directing and circulation of steam in cooperation with the lower chamber. The modification further includes a downwardly depending externally threaded skirt cooperative with an internal threaded interior wall of the pan.

Abstract: A non-metallic unitary baking pan, and especially a baking pan made of plastic, including foam plastic, paper or plastic laminated paper in which a cake or cake-like product can be baked, which baking pan has portions thereof which are thicker and have greater insulating effect than other portions to more uniformly and evenly distribute the heat produced during the baking operation throughout the cake batter or dough being baked. Also disclosed is method for producing such a non-metallic unitary baking pan by means of heated mating dies under pressure the mating dies having portions spaced farther apart than other portions thereof to produce corresponding thicker portions in the pan so formed.