Patent ID: 8235245

Claim:
A detachable grip device comprising a grip body including two elements forming jaws that are mobile in translation with respect to one another according to a longitudinal direction between an open position and a closed position in which the jaws are able to clamp a skirt of a kitchen accessory, said longitudinal direction being perpendicular to a vertical direction, means for moving the jaw-forming elements from a stable closed state in which the two jaw-forming elements are in the closed position and a stable open state in which the two jaw-forming elements are in the open position, and inversely, passing via an intermediate unstable equilibrium state, and means for opening the, jaw-forming elements between a rest position in which the opening means have no effect on the movement means, and an activation position in which the opening means are adapted to drive the movement means initially in the closed state beyond the intermediate unstable equilibrium state, and the means for opening comprising at least one button that is located on a longitudinal side of the grip body and that is mounted as to slide according to a direction of movement having a component in a transverse direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein the means for moving comprise a lever that is mobile in a pivot axis which extends according to the transverse direction between a retracted position and a deployed position, passing via an intermediate unstable equilibrium position, wherein said retracted, deployed and intermediate unstable equilibrium positions respectively correspond to the closed, open and unstable equilibrium states of the means for moving, and wherein the means for opening comprise two buttons which are mounted as to slide in a cavity in the grip body and wherein each said button is positioned on said longitudinal side of the grip body that is specific to said button.