Food steamer
CA 2189504 C · Owner: Applica Consumer Products, Inc. · Inventors: Nopanen, Esko; Kass, Robert C.; Dubois, Craig A.
Overview
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A food steamer having a base, a combined support and collector, and a cooking bowl. The base has a heater and a reservoir for holding water to be heated into steam. The cooking bowl is mounted on top of the base and has a bottom with holes. The combined support and collector has a frame and a screen. The frame is mounted to the base between the heater and the cooking bowl. The frame has a center aperture with the screen located therein for supporting flavoring items thereon. The frame has raised walls to form a condensed steam holding area for holding all condensed steam that has traveled into and then back out of the holes in the cooking bowl. The frame also has a side wall with inwardly …
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- Filed November 4, 1996 and granted August 28, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 4, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 4, 2018.
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