Fastening device for securing of a handle on a cooking utensil

A fastening device for facilitating fastening of a handle element on a cooking utensil, comprising:

• at least one support element fastened on the cooking utensil, said support element including an elongated plate-like member bent at a mid-region thereof into a V-shape to form a pair of legs diverging away from a vertex of the V, a free end of each leg being fastened directly to said cooking utensil, oppositely facing edge surfaces of each leg of the V including a pair of oppositely facing clamping surfaces, said clamping surfaces on each leg being convergingly inclined with respect to a longitudinal length of a said leg, and in a direction extending away from said vertex, toward one another, and
• at least one cup-shaped fastening element mounted on the handle element, said fastening element having first and second opposing inside walls, on said first inside wall is provided a rigid holding bar and on said second inside wall is provided a compressible holding spring opposing said holding bar, said holding bar and said holding spring engaging respective ones of said clamping surfaces at active surface locations thereon, a spacing between said active surface locations on opposite sides of each said leg being greater than a spacing between said holding bar and an uncompressed state of said holding spring so that, upon engagement of said holding bar and said holding spring with said clamping surfaces, said holding spring will be compressed to operatively fixedly hold said fastening element and associated handle to said cooking utensil.