Cookware set with lid support
AssigneeE. Mishan & Sons, Inc.
InventorMohan Rajasekaran
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Abstract
A cookware set includes a pot, a lid configured to fit on and cover the pot in a first position, and a support attached to an upper surface of the lid and disposed at the edge of the lid and configured to support the lid in a substantially vertical position on a rim of the pot in a second position. The support has a base and two wings extending from the base, each of the two wings disposed on an opposite end of the base and having a bent portion bent inward toward the base to define a two-piece channel defined by an upper surface of the base and inner surfaces of the wings. The channel is configured to receive a rim of the pot in the second position.
Claims13
1-8. (canceled)
A lid support configured to be attached to an upper surface of a lid, the lid adapted to cover a cookware vessel, the lid having an edge and the cookware vessel having a rim, the lid configured to cover the cookware vessel in a first position in which the lid rests on the rim of the cookware vessel in a horizontal position, the lid support comprising:
- a base adapted to be attached to the upper surface of the lid, the base having a profile which does not extend beyond the edge of the lid;
- at least one wing extending from the base;
- each of the at least one wing having a terminal bent portion, disposed at an end of the wing, and bent inward toward the base, the bent portion having an inner surface opposing an upper surface of the base, to define a channel between the upper surface of the base and the inner surface of the bent portion;
- the channel configured to receive a rim of the cookware vessel such that the lid is supported by the lid support on the rim in a second position;
- wherein the second position is vertical.
A lid support configured to be attached to an upper surface of a lid, the lid adapted to cover a cookware vessel, the lid having an edge and the cookware vessel having a rim, the lid configured to cover the cookware vessel in a first position in which the lid rests on the rim of the cookware vessel in a horizontal position, the lid support comprising:
- a base adapted to be attached to the upper surface of the lid;
- at least one wing extending from the base;
- each of the at least one wing having a terminal bent portion, disposed at an end of the wing, and bent inward toward the base, the bent portion having an inner surface opposing an upper surface of the base, to define a channel between the upper surface of the base and the inner surface of the bent portion;
- the channel configured to receive a rim of the cookware vessel such that the lid is supported by the lid support on the rim in a second position;
- wherein the second position is vertical;
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- wherein the at least one wing comprises a first wing disposed at a first end of the base and a second wing disposed at a second end of the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.