US 11,744,408 B2
Removable handle for cookware
Jeffrey Servaites, Oakland, CA (US); Christopher Harsacky, Walnut Creek, CA (US); and Elizabeth K. Swanson, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to Ensembl Inc., Montreal (CA)
Appl. No. 17/45,673
Filed by Ensembl Inc., Montreal (CA)
PCT Filed Apr. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CA2019/000060
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/195917, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. CA 3001400 (CA), filed on Apr. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022560 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 25/10 (2006.01); A47J 45/07 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 45/071 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cookware container with a removable handle,
a) the cookware container having a base and a peripheral side wall extending from said base wherein said removable handle is adapted for removable attachment to an attachment point on the cookware container, said attachment point on the cookware container comprising a bracket that has a depending section attached to said side wall of the cookware container and a flange at the top edge of the depending section and extending outwardly away from the side wall of the cookware container and wherein a centrally located non-circular opening is provided through the flange, said opening sized and shaped to engage with means for removable attachment on the handle and said opening being elongated and generally orientated with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the elongated handle section of the removable handle; and
b) the removable handle comprising an elongated handle section, the elongated handle section having first and second ends, wherein at the first end of the handle section there is means for removable attachment to the attachment point on the cookware container and means for locking the removable handle to the attachment point, wherein
i) the means for removable attachment to the attachment point comprising a horizontal body section having top and bottom surfaces and first and second ends, on the bottom surface of the horizontal body section adjacent the first end is a depending thicker portion of the horizontal body section, wherein a width of each of the first end of the horizontal body section and the thicker portion is less than a width of the flange on the sidewall of the cookware container and said thicker portion sized and shaped whereby a horizontal cross section of the thicker portion is the same shape and smaller than the non-circular opening in the flange to fit snugly with the non-circular opening on the flange with the surrounding bottom surface of the horizontal body section placed against a top surface of the flange and a horizontal tab section that extends outwardly from the thicker portion of the horizontal body section and that extends under a bottom surface of the flange toward the cookware container when the thicker body portion is located within the non-circular opening on the flange; and
ii) the means for locking the removable handle to the attachment point comprising an elongated locking bar moveable by an actuator horizontally from an unlocked position to a locked position where an end of the locking bar is located beneath and in contact with the bottom surface of the flange.