Pressure pans

Claim 1

An improved pressure-cooker comprising, in combination: a cooker body; a cover which is provided with an exhaust valve and at least one small orifice disposed along the periphery of said cover; said cover also being provided with a central upper projection which is cylindrical in shape and of reduced height and which has a slotted orifice formed by a transverse bore opening into an upper diametrical slot; said cover being provided with an outer diametrical arm which centrally forms a cylindrical projection having a threaded axial hole centered with respect to a lower neck engageable around said central upper projection of said cover; a threaded pin being adapted for being threadedly engaged in said axial hOle and the upper extremity of said threaded pin holding a knob and the lower extremity of which terminates in a ball point laterally received into said slotted orifice of said cover projection; a pair of plates affixed to the outer surface of said cooker body and being diametrically opposed and partially projecting beyond the upper edge of said cooker body; each of said plates having an inverted L-shaped hook upper section and having a V-shaped projecting tooth followed by a round outer corner; and each end of said outer diametrical arm being provided in its upper surface with a longitudinally recessed V-shaped central portion adapted to engage an associated one of said projecting teeth.