Cover for frying and cooking appliances

Claim 1

A cover for frying and cooking appliances comprising in combination: a lid of truncated and conical shape; said lid having an upper opening and a lower opening surrounded by a lower lid rim, said lower opening being five to twenty times larger in diameter than said upper opening; said lid comprising a wall of transparent material, said wall tapering from said lower opening at an inclination angle between 35 and 45 degrees; a handle attached to said lid; a toroidal collar mounted on said appliance and having an upper collar wall portion extending vertically and ending in an upper collar rim; a first lower collar wall portion extending from below said upper collar wall portion in a downward and inward direction; a second lower collar wall portion extending from below said first collar wall portion in an upward and inward direction and ending in a lower collar rim; said first and second lower collar wall portions forming a circumferential channel to receive and collect condensed vapor, meat juice, and fat; hook means having an upper hook portion attached to said upper collar wall portion and having a lower hook portion being made as a bend to allow said lid to be snapped into said hook means by introducing said lower lid rim into said bend and exerting a force on said handle in a vertical direction, said bend, in turn, exerting a holding force on said lid, in its snapped-in position to allow on the one hand said lid and said collar to be handled together by gripping said cover by said handle but allowing, on the other hand, to again manually disengage said lid from said collar; said hook means being shaped and positioned in said collar such that when said lid is snapped into said position, said lower lid rim is retained at a vertical distance above said circumferential channel and at a lateral distance beside said upper collar wall portion; said lower lid rim, when being in said position, intersecting a conical surface defined by said upper collar rim and said lower collar rim, thus effectively preventing fat, mean juice, or water spurting from said appliance out of said cover on the path between said lid and said collar.