Patent ID: 7028605
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: A47J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An audible signal generating valve assembly and a cooperating, independently operable, timer assembly for a cooking vessel, comprising, in combination: means located in said valve assembly for initiating and maintaining an audible signal at a preselected temperature of the contents of said cooking vessel; a slide valve having a first position and a second position and generating a first audible signal in at least one of the first or second positions; a controller adapted to engage the slide valve to move the slide valve from the first position to the second position and thereby interrupt the first audible signal; said timer assembly including means for removably coupling said timer assembly to said valve assembly, and further including a switch and an actuator device for activating the switch and being coupled to the slide valve, the timer selectively programmable to run for a selected time period and generating a second signal at the expiration of the selected time period, the activation of the switch starting the timer running for the selected time period; and wherein movement of the slide valve from the first position to the second position engages the actuator device to activate the switch.