Patent ID: 6173860
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A handgrip for a cookware item, particularly cookware for roasting, baking or boiling purposes, which can be secured to the wall of a cookware item by means of a fastening element, whereby the handgrip can be pivoted about a vertical axis from an operating position wherein the handgrip projects transversely from the cookware item, into a rest position wherein the handgrip is approximately parallel to the wall of the cookware item or tangential thereto, or wherein it engages over the opening or a surface of the cookware item, the handgrip consisting of a base portion which can be affixed to the cookware item and a handle pivotally supported on the base portion, the base portion having a guide surface with an annular guide groove or an annular projection, which is centrally traversed by the pivot axis, and the handle being equipped at its end which can be connected to the base portion with a matching guide projection or guide groove, whereby the interengaging and mutually contacting guide elements are kept together by a connection element forming the pivot axis, the pivot axis formed by a bearing bushing which is supported by means of a flange on an outside of the handle, traverses the handle and the base portion and can be fixed by a fastening element supported on the outside of the base portion, the fastening element consisting of an annular or cylindrical spring element and a cap screw axially traversing the same, whereby the spring element is an arched spring disk whose middle portion can be tightened firmly against the underside of the bearing bushing by means of the cap screw, and whose marginal area rests against an underside of the base portion under preliminary stress.