Patent ID: 6629330
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: A47J,A47L,B25G

Abstract:
An arrangement for removing residue from cooking spills from a heated or cold cooking surface, said arrangement comprising:a scraping device being configured to minimize damage to a cooking surface; said scraping device being configured with sufficient stiffness and rigidity to maintain its structural shape upon being pressed to a cooking surface; said scraping device being configured to withstand use on a heated cooking surface having a temperature greater than or equal to two hundred and forty degrees Celsius; said scraping device comprising: a blade; a body; said body having an ergonomically shaped structural shape and being configured to accept a hand of a user; said body having a longitudinal axis; said body comprising a first end and a second end; said first end of said body comprising a handgrip portion being configured to conform to a hand of a user of said scraping device; said second end of said body comprising a blade holder being configured to hold said blade; said blade being removably secured at said blade holder; said blade holder comprising a device to operatively secure said blade at said blade holder; said blade comprising a scraping edge to engage with a cooking surface from which residue from cooking spills is to be removed with said scraping device; said scraping edge comprising an acute angle configured to minimize damage to a cooking surface; at least said blade holder comprises a protection cover; said protection cover being configured to be moveably disposable at said blade holder so as to be moveable between a position to uncover said scraping edge and a position to cover said scraping edge of said blade; said protection cover comprising a retracting element with which said protection cover can be retracted with the pointer finger of a hand grasping said handgrip portion to uncover said scraping edge of said blade; said blade holder and said handgrip portion comprising a duroplastic synthetic-plastic material having a thermal conductivity being sufficiently low to minimize heat conduction between said blade and said blade holder, and also having a thermal conductivity to minimize heat being conducted along said handgrip portion upon said blade making contact with a hot cooking surface; said synthetic-plastic material being configured to withstand temperatures greater than or equal to two hundred and forty degrees Celsius; said synthetic-plastic material comprising one of: a melamine resin, and an unsaturated polyester resin; said synthetic-plastic material being a glass fiber reinforced synthetic-plastic material; one of said handgrip portion and said blade holder comprising stiffening ribs; said blade holder being configured with a thumb-receiving surface for the thumb of a hand of a user holding said handgrip portion; one of said handgrip portion and said blade holder comprising at least one holding element being configured to hold said arrangement during non-use in its ready state at a holding part; said blade holder comprising a receiving body being configured to receive and hold said blade; said blade holder comprising a pocket formation being configured to hold said receiving body; said protection cover being spring biased to cover said scraping edge of said blade; and a securement element to releasably secure said protection cover, wherein said cooking surface is selected from the group consisting of: (a.) a cooking surface of a smooth-top kitchen ceramic cooktop; (b.) a cooking surface of a smooth-top kitchen glass ceramic cooktop, (c.) a cooking surface of a stove having a ceramic cooktop cooking surface, and (d.) a cooking surface of a stove having a glass ceramic cooktop cooking surface.