Multi-heating zone cooking pot construction
OwnerPatricia C. Schirmerinventor
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Abstract
A multi heating zone cooking pot construction (10) including a receptacle unit comprising a receptacle member (20) having a base portion (21) and a peripheral sidewall (22) which are formed integrally with a divider unit (12) including a main divider wall member (30) and a secondary divider wall member (31) which divider the interior of the receptacle member (20) into segregated compartments (28, 29, 29') including an enlarged compartment (28) and two smaller compartments (29, 29'). The base portion (21) of each compartment is provided with a looped heat transfer coil (40) wherein the number of heat transfer loops (41) in at least two of the compartments (28, 29, 29') are different to produce more or less heat in the respective compartments (28, 29, 29').
Claims9
A multi-heating zone cooking pot construction comprising:
- a receptacle unit including a receptacle member having a base portion, a raised peripheral sidewall extending upwardly from the base portion and a handle element extending outwardly from the sidewall;
- a divider unit formed integrally with the receptacle unit and including a main wall divider member extending both diametrically across the interior of receptacle member, and upwardly from the base portion of the receptacle member to divide the interior of the receptacle member into two segregated compartments;
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- a heating zone unit including a heat transfer coil formed in the base portion of the receptacle member and arranged into a pattern of loops wherein each of the segregated compartments are provided with a different number of loops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.