Cooking Device
AssigneeMagellan Home-Goods, Ltd.
InventorsAndre Dean Cloutier, Debra Lynne Sasken-Duff
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a cooking device which may be used for the mixing and stirring of sauces, soups, gravies, and other foodstuffs while being heated on a heat source such as a stovetop, gas burner, hot plate, barbeque grill, charcoal, open flame, etc. The term “sauce” will be used herein to indicate all such foodstuffs to be cooked in order to abbreviate this disclosure. The cooking device allows a user (cook) to stir and mix the sauce while heating the sauce and optionally while a lid assembly is in place thus, more efficiently retaining heat, steam, and flavors within the cooking device during cooking and stirring.
Claims19
A cooking device comprising:
- a container having a base with an interior surface, at least one sidewall, and a container rim at the upper vertical edge of the sidewall;
- a lid assembly removably attached to the container, a mixer assembly removably attached to the lid assembly, a shaft assembly, and a crank assembly;
- the frame assembly comprising a frame rim attached to the container;
- the frame assembly comprising a radially central frame hub;
- the shaft assembly comprising a shaft extending from the frame hub downward toward the base of the container, the shaft having a vertical axis of rotation;
- the shaft assembly further comprising a scraper paddle extending from the shaft in a first horizontal direction so as to rotate therewith,
- the scraper paddle in constant contact with the interior surface of the base of the container from the axis of rotation of the shaft to the sidewall of the container;
- the shaft assembly further comprising a mixer paddle extending from the shaft in a second horizontal direction and configured to rotate there with;
- the mixer paddle in a horizontal plane above the scraper paddle;
- the lid assembly substantially extends across the container rim enclosing the container;
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- wherein the crank assembly is removably attached to the shaft and extends vertically above the frame assembly.
A cooking device comprising:
- a container having a base, at least one sidewall, and a container rim at the upper vertical edge of the sidewall;
- a lowermost inner surface of the base having a substantially planar inner surface;
- a mixer assembly comprising:
- a frame assembly removably attached to the container, a lid assembly removably attached to the container rim, and a crank assembly removably attached to the frame assembly;
- the frame assembly comprising a frame rim attached to the container rim and a radially central frame hub;
- a shaft assembly comprising a shaft extending from the frame hub downward toward the lowermost inner surface of the base, the shaft having a vertical axis of rotation orthogonal to the base of the container;
- the shaft assembly further comprising a paddle extending from the shaft in a first horizontal direction so as to rotate therewith,
- the lid assembly substantially extends over the container rim enclosing the container;
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- the crank assembly is removably attached to the shaft independent of the lid assembly, wherein the crank assembly extends vertically above the frame assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.