Patent ID: 7966710

Claim:
A process for attaching a handle to an article of cookware, a) providing a cooking vessel with at least one flush hole for the attachment of a handle, b) providing a cookware handle having a flange portion with one or more rivet receiving holes, said one or more holes each being beveled from at least an inside portion configured to contact an exterior surface of a wall of the cooking vessel, c) disposing the flange of the cookware handle on the exterior surface of the wall of the cooking vessel with the at least one flush hole in the cooking vessel aligned with the one or more rivet receiving holes in the flange, d) inserting at least one rivet having a head and a shaft portion into each of the aligned holes with the shaft portion passing first through the cookware vessel adjacent the beveled portion and then through the handle flange portion, e) simultaneously deforming the shaft and head portion of said at least one rivet wherein the head of the rivet drives a portion of the wall of the cookware vessel into the beveled portion of the handle flange.