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US 2017/0245677 A1Published application
Article with reinforced nonstick food preparation surface
AssigneeMeyer Intellectual Properties Limited
InventorStanley Kin Sui Cheng
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Abstract
Cookware surfaces of metal, such as aluminum, may include a nonstick coating and embedded hard metal mesh. The mesh protects the nonstick coating between interior regions within the mesh from being cut or abraded by knives and other tools.
Claims26
A cookware article comprising:
- (a) a base material layer having at least a first base surface along a first side;
- (b) at least a first mesh layer disposed on the first base surface, the first mesh layer comprising a plurality of first network segments embedded in the first base surface and extending outward therefrom to a planar outer first mesh surface and defining a plurality of first interior regions between adjacent first network segments;
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- (c) a nonstick coating layer disposed on the first base surface, within the first interior regions between the adjacent first network segments, and extending outward therefrom to an outer nonstick coating surface adjacent to the outer first mesh surface, wherein the outer first mesh surface is disposed outward of the first base surface farther than the adjacent outer nonstick coating surface such that the nonstick coating surface is disposed below the outer first mesh surface.
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A method of making a surface of a cookware article, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a base material comprising a metal or metal alloy;
- (b) coating at least one planar surface of the metal or metal alloy with an organic nonstick material;
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- (c) compressing a mesh comprising a plurality of network segments comprising a metal or metal alloy onto the coated surface to embed the network segments into the base material, wherein the network segments define a plurality of interior regions between adjacent network segments, and wherein the network segments extend outward of the base material beyond the nonstick material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.