Patent ID: 7775390

Claim:
Cooking vessel, particularly a steam pressure cooker, comprising a pot-like container and a lid provided for pressure-tight sealing of the container, where the container displays a circumferential, outwardly bent or flanged pot edge, wherein clamping jaws are provided on the lid, which serve as locking segments and can be moved into an open or locked position parallel to the plane of the pot edge, wherein the clamping jaws reach under the pot edge in the locked position, the clamping jaws each extend over almost half the circumference of the lid, and the clamping jaws are mounted in a manner permitting pivoting movement about a pivot extending parallel to, and at a distance from, the longitudinal centre line of the container, characterised in that the pivoting movement of control levers is provided with a synchronization device, further characterised in that the clamping jaws remote from the pivot are connected in pivoting fashion to the control levers, which are in turn each mounted on the lid in pivoting fashion and transmit an opening and closing movement to the clamping jaws, and that the pivoting movement of the control levers is coupled via the synchronization device.