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US 8,393,262 B1Granted
Pressure cooker with pressure relief handle
AssigneeTable Unlimited, Inc.
InventorDaryoosh Molayem
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Abstract
A pressure cooking vessel has a lid and a container. A handle is coupled to the lid and not the container. A pressure relief mechanism is integrated in the handle. Various other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims17
A low pressure cooker comprising:
- a cooking vessel having a container and a lid;
- and
- a handle coupled to the lid and not the container, the handle having an elongated handle body, and a pressure relief mechanism integrated into the handle body,
- wherein the pressure relief mechanism comprises an activation surface located in the handle body to allow a user to manually actuate the pressure relief mechanism by applying pressure to the activation surface,
- wherein the handle is separated from a top portion of the lid so as to form an area, between the lid and the handle, for fingers of a user to apply pressure to the activation surface and actuate the pressure relief mechanism,
- wherein the activation surface comprises a surface of an elongated lever that is a) located in a cavity of the handle body and b) longitudinally aligned with the handle body.
3 more elements
An apparatus comprising:
- a low pressure cooking vessel having a lid and a container;
- a handle coupled to the lid and not the container;
- and
- a pressure relief mechanism integrated in the handle, the pressure relief mechanism having an elongated user activated surface that is coupled to a first valve to initiate the release of vapor from the vessel, the first valve being actuatable between a first position that relieves pressure in the cooking vessel and a second position that at least maintains pressure within the cooking vessel, wherein the handle comprises a handle body and the user activated surface is accessible through an opening located on a bottom portion of the handle body that is facing the top of the lid and is longitudinally aligned with the handle body.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a low pressure cooking vessel having a container and a lid, and
- a handle coupled to the lid and not the container,
- a pressure relief mechanism integrated in the handle and having a first valve to be actuated by an elongated lever whose activation surface faces the top of the lid and the activation surface and the top of the lid form an area sufficiently open to allow all the fingers of a user to contact the activation surface, wherein the lever is elongated and is located inside a cavity of the handle body that faces the top of the lid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.