Calphalon Corporation Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130087033 | Food Slicer with Safety and Adjustment Features - A food slicer has a deck defining a food prep surface and a blade oriented laterally across the deck. The blade has a cutting edge exposed on the food prep surface. The blade can divide the deck into a pre-slice deck and a post-slice deck. An elevation of the pre-slice deck can be user adjustable relative to the position of the cutting edge to selectively adjust a slice thickness produced by the food slicer. The food slicer can also have a safety mechanism with a blade guard positioned adjacent the cutting edge. The blade guard is movable between a blocking position blocking the cutting edge and a slicing position exposing the cutting edge. | 04-11-2013 |
20130032599 | Process for Making Heat Stable Color Anodized Aluminum and Articles Formed Thereby - A process of hard anodizing or Type III anodizing an aluminum article creates a heat stable, hard anodized, color surface on the exterior of the article. The process includes anodizing the aluminum article to achieve a hard anodized base layer on a surface of the article. A copper layer is deposited after the exterior is hard anodized. A tin layer is deposited after the step of depositing the copper layer. | 02-07-2013 |
20120207891 | Egg Poacher and Method for Poaching - An egg poacher includes a cup having a bottom, a side wall extending upward from a perimeter of the bottom, an open top at a top edge of the side wall, and a plurality of perforations formed through the side wall but not through the bottom. The egg poacher may have a handle connected to a part of the side wall. The handle may be curved. A method of poaching an egg includes the steps of selecting an egg poacher, placing the egg poacher in a pan of simmering water, cracking open and placing a raw egg contents in the cup, cooking the egg contents, lifting and draining water from the cup, and releasing the cooked egg. | 08-16-2012 |
20120198707 | Cutlery Implement with Release Bumps - A cutlery implement has a blade with opposed side surfaces and a knife edge along one terminal edge of the blade. One or more bumps protrude from at least one or both of the opposed side surfaces and are arranged along the blade and spaced from the knife edge | 08-09-2012 |
20110155607 | Cookware Lid-Matching System and Method - A cookware set has vessels with vessel indicia indicating size characteristics of the top openings of the specific vessels and has lids sized and configured to fit the top openings of the vessels. The lid indicia correspond to the vessel indicia making it easy for a user to match the correct lid size to a vessel selected for use. | 06-30-2011 |
20110073602 | Lightweight cookware and method of making same - A light weight cookware article has a foam core with exposed exterior surfaces. The foam core is formed of a carbon foam material and has a barrier layer on the exterior surfaces of the foam core. The cookware article has an upper facing food contacting side and a downward facing heat source side opposite the food contacting side. A method of making the article includes fabricating a foam core vessel from the carbon foam material and applying the barrier layer on the exposed surface of the foam core vessel covering the food contacting side and the heat source side | 03-31-2011 |