Safety cap assembly and a pressure cooker provided therewith
OwnerTom Hiroshi Hasegawainventor
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Abstract
A safety cap assembly to be installed in the lid of a cooking appliance such as a pressure cooker and comprising a pressure release tube having a flange portion at its lower end, a cap securing nut with its outer diameter gradually increasing from the top end to the lower end and provided on the flange portion of the cap securing nut, and a safety cap unit which includes a mesh casing and a supporting bridge in a shallow reversed V-shape and is mounted to the lower portion of the pressure release tube. The safety cap assembly can be installed along with a vacuum adapter including a clogging ball inside to create a vacuum environment inside the pressure cooker.
Claims12
A safety cap assembly for a pressure cooker, comprising:
- a pressure release tube formed therein with an axially extending pressure release channel and formed with an outwardly extending flange portion at a lower end thereof,
- a cap securing nut which is in substantially a truncated cone shape with an outer diameter thereof gradually increasing from a top end to a bottom end thereof and is configured to be attached to a lower portion of said pressure release tube, and
- a safety cap unit comprised of a mesh casing and a supporting bridge and configured to be attached to the lower portion of said pressure release tube, a central portion of said supporting bridge being substantially outside of said mesh casing and held by said cap securing nut and said outwardly extending flange portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.