US 12,279,720 B2
Removable handle with reinforced support member
Michel Montgelard, Aix-les-Bains (FR)
Assigned to SEB S.A., (FR)
Filed by SEB S.A., Ecully (FR)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,879.
Claims priority of application No. 2100140 (FR), filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0211217 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 45/07 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 45/071 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A removable handle configured to cooperate with a cooking container having a side wall that is extended upward by an outwardly curved portion comprising a free end, said removable handle extending in a longitudinal direction and comprising:
an internal support member and an external support member (14) configured to come against, respectively, an interior surface and an exterior surface of the side wall;
a plastic gripping body which extends longitudinally and which comprises a front end equipped with the external support member, wherein the plastic gripping body comprises a metal reinforcement attached to the front end of the gripping body and having with a tab that extends at the support member and wherein the metal reinforcement extends over a lower outer face of the front end of the plastic gripping body, the metal reinforcement and the tab dimensioned to maintain the geometry of the removable handle/cooking container assembly in an event of thermal degradation of a plastic material of the front end of the plastic gripping body.