Grill

• US 3,356,012 A
• Filed: 03/29/1965
• Issued: 12/05/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank Rosen
• Original Assignee: Frank Rosen
• Inventors: Rosen, Frank
• Application Number:
  US04/443,504
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• US Class Current: 99/446
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/041 with food supports rotating about a horizontal axis A47J37/042 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0709 with electric heating elements

Claims

1. A GRILL CONSTRUCTION FOR THE COOKING OF GREASE-PRODUCING FOOD COMPRISING IN COMBINATION AN OPEN-TOPPED STRUCTURE HAVING A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL BOTTOM WALL AND MARGINAL WALLS EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID BOTTOM WALL TO DEFINE AN OPEN SPACE ABOVE THE BOTTOM WALL AND WITHIN THE MARGINAL WALLS, AN ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENT CARRIED BY SAID STRUCTURE, AND A SUPPORT CARRIED BY THE STRUCTURE ABOVE THE PLANE OF SAID HEATING ELEMENT TO SUPPORT SAID FOOD TO BE COOKED BY THE HEAT FROM SAID HEATING ELEMENT, SAID BOTTOM WALL CARRYING A GREASE-COLLECTING SURFACE, SAID GREASE-COLLECTING SURFACE HAVING A PLURALITY OF ALTERNATING PEAKS AND VALLEYS EXTENDING LATERALLY OF THE SURFACE, A BAFFLE PLATE CARRIED BY THE SAID STRUCTURE BELOW SAID SUPPORT AND HEATING ELEMENT AND POSITIONED ABOVE AND GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID SURFACE IN THE PATH OF GREASE DRIPPING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE FOOD ON SAID SUPPORT, SAID BAFFLE PLATE HAVING A PLURALITY OF ALTERNATING PEAKS AND VALLEYS EXTENDING LATERALLY OF THE BAFFLE PLATE, THE VALLEYS OF SAID BAFFLE PLATE BEING POSITIONED ABOVE THE PEAKS OF SAID SURFACE AND THE PEAKS OF SAID BAFFLE PLATE BEING POSITIONED ABOVE THE VALLEYS OF SAID SURFACE, SAID BAFFLE PLATE HAVING OPENINGS THERETHROUGH AT THE LOCATIONS OF THE VALLEYS IN THE BAFFLE PLATE FOR PERMITTING GREASE FALLING DOWN ON THE BAFFLE AND FLOWING INTO THE VALLEYS THEREOF TO ESCAPE DOWNWARDLY THROUGH THE OPENINGS ONTO THE PEAKS OF SAID SURFACE, SAID SURFACE CAUSING GREASE FALLING THROUGH THE OPENINGS ONTO SAID PEAKS OF THE SURFACE TO FLOW DOWNWARDLY AND SETTLE IN THE VALLEYS OF THE SURFACE UNDER THE SAID BAFFLE PLATE, THE SAID BAFFLE PLATE ABOVE THE VALLEYS OF SAID SURFACE PROTECTING THE GREASE SETTLED IN THE SAME FROM DIRECT RADIATION OF HEAT FROM THE HEATING ELEMENT ABOVE SAID BAFFLE PLATE.