Slow cooker with fastening mechanism
AssigneeZhanjiang New Nanfang Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.
InventorHui Li
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Abstract
A slow cooker with fastening mechanism includes a housing, handles on the side wall of the housing, and a lid, wherein a movable fastening mechanism is provided on the upper side of the lid, and each of the handles is hinged to a clamping hook and corresponds to the movable fastening mechanism, so that the clamping hook can interact with the movable fastening mechanism. The inner pot can be closed tightly by the action of the clamping hook. With two compressing parts provided on the clamping hook and the dismountable sealing ring around the lid rim, the inner pot can be closed tightly by the lid. The lid handle is fixed onto the lid via threaded connection with sealing plugs in the connection sites.
Claims11
A slow cooker with a fastening mechanism, comprising a housing, housing handles on an outer wall of the housing, and a lid, wherein a movable fastening mechanism is provided on an upper side of the lid, the movable fastening mechanism comprises:
- a first contractible rod and a second contractible rod, where a spring is provided between the two contractible rods, two slopes inclining towards each inner end of the contractible rods being provided on a bottom of the inner end of each contractible rod;
- an auxiliary connecting rod provided under the two contractible rods and fixed on the lid, where two wedges corresponding to the slopes respectively are provided in a middle of the auxiliary connecting rod, and two recess areas are also respectively provided on two ends of the auxiliary connecting rod, and the outer ends of the two contractible rods cover the corresponding recess areas;
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- a button provided above the contractible rods, with its bottom contacting with the top of the inner ends of the two contractible rods;
- wherein when the contractible rods are pressed down by the button to an utmost position, the horizontal distance between the outer ends of the two contractible rods is not greater than the horizontal distance between the two recess areas;
- a clamping hook is hinged to each handle and corresponds to the movable fastening mechanism, wherein the two recess areas are located in a motion trail of a free end part of a corresponding clamping hook, a hole is provided on the free end part and corresponds to the outer end of each contractible rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.