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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1980
David L Hellinger, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Gordon D Bell, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Gregory N Brown, Lafayette, IN (US);
Robert J Kennedy, Jr, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Kendall S Smith, II, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Lincoln Manufacturing Co., Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Abstract
A low thermal conductivity removable heat insulating cover for a cooking utensil lid handle has a hand grip portion for substantially surrounding the lid handle at least along a central portion thereof with a pair of closely adjacent portions depending downwardly from the hand grip portion toward the lid surface and with a protective portion adapted to lie closely adjacent the lid surface covering a region of that surface to form a barrier for preventing a user's hand from contacting the lid when grasping the hand grip portion is disclosed. In one form the protective portion comprises first and second lateral extensions of the ends of the closely adjacent portions remote from the hand grip portion with the cover being formed as a section of an extrusion of substantially uniform cross-sectional configuration. The closely adjacent portions may be releasably joined together by a rib and groove arrangement along the adjoining surfaces thereof. In another form, the hand grip portion is formed as a loop, and that loop extends to also surround the downwardly depending legs of the lid handle with the protective portion extending from the handle along the lid surface beyond the legs. In this form the closely adjacent portions slope inwardly toward one another to form a finger accepting depression near the central portion of the handle.