Frankfurter cooker

Claim 1

IN A TWO-PART FRANKFURTER COOKER, A BASE INCLUDING A BOTTOM WALL AND FOUR SIDE WALLS DEFINING A COOKING WELL, A PAIR OF ELECTRICLALLY CONDUCTIVE BUS BARS DISPOSED IN SAID WELL ADJACENT OPPOSITE SIDE WALLS THEREOF, A PAIR OF ELECTRICAL CONTACT FINGERS HAVING ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS WITH SAID PAIR OF BUS BARS AND PROJECTING UPWARDLY FROM THE BASE, A PLURALITY OF ELECTRODES CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID BUS BARS AND PROJECTING INTO SAID COOKING WELL FOR RECEPTION, ON OPPOSED PAIRS THEREOF, OF THE TERMINAL PORTIONS OF FRANKFURTERS TO BE COOKED, A COVER FOR SAID COOKING WELL, A PAIR OF DOWNWARDLY OPENING ELECTRICAL SOCKETS CARRIED BY THE COVER IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID CONTACT FINGERS FOR RECEPTION OF AN ELECTRICAL CONTACT WITH THE LATTER WHEN THE COVER IS IN CLOSED POSITION, MEANS CARRIED BY SAID COVER FOR PROVIDING AN DELECTRICAL CIRCUIT BETWEEN SAID SOCKETS AND AN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY SOURCE, AND HINGE MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING SAID COVER ON THE BASE, SAID HINGE MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF INTERFITTING PARTS, ONE OF SAID INTERFITTING PARTS COMPRISING A FLANGE PROJECTING HORIZONTALLY FROM THE BASE AND HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED OPENINGS THERETHROUGH, THE OTHER OF SAID INTERFITTING PARTS COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED LUGS PROJECTING FROM THE CORRESPONDING SIDE OF THE COVER FOR RECEPTION IN SAID OPENINGS OF THE BASE FLANGE, SAID LUGS AND OPENINGS BEING SO SHAPED AND DISPOSED THAT THEY MOUNT THE COVER FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO THE BASE BETWEEN A CLOSED POSITION WHERE THE LUGS ARE INSEPARABLE FORM THE BASE FLANGE OPENINGS AND AN OPEN POSITION WHEREIN THE LUGS ARE READILY SEPARABLE FROM SAID OPENINGS FOR REMOVAL OF THE COVER FROM THE BASE, WHEREBY SAID BASE MAY BE COMPLETELY IMMERSED FOR CLEANING WITHOUT ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD.