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US 6,552,306 B1Granted
Wok
AssigneeSunbeam Corporation
InventorNicholas Graham Edmonds
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Abstract
A cooking appliance (wok) (10) having a stainless steel bowl (11) to which there is attached a heating base (15). Embedded in the heating base (15) is an electric heating element (17). The bowl (11) is formed of stainless steel and is of an arcuate configuration.
Claims8
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a stainless steel bowl having an inner surface and an outer surface, said outer surface being at least partly non-planar so as to have a portion which is non-planar including a side portion of said outer surface;
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- a heating base fixed to said outer surface so as to cover at least part of the non-planar portion of said outer surface, said heating base including a cast body fixed to said outer surface and an electric heating element embedded in said body away from said outer surface which when activated causes said base to heat said non-planar portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.