DEVICE FOR TOASTING AND/OR GRILLING

• US 3,732,803 A
• Filed: 02/08/1971
• Issued: 05/15/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Heinrich-Julius Buxmann
• Original Assignee: Heinrich-Julius Buxmann
• Inventors: Buxmann, Heinrich-Julius
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Henderson, Arthur O.
• Application Number:
  US05/113,372
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• Field of Search: 99/357,367,385,394,400-401,444,446,447 126/39M 206/4,56,58
• US Class Current: 99/357
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0635 with reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/007 Removable panels

Abstract

A device for heat-treating, such as toasting and/or grilling, foodstuff, has a housing, a foodstuff supporting grid, a heating element, and a metal foil reflector that is supported in an easily exchangeable manner with relation to a reflector support.

Claims

1. A device for heat treating, such as toasting and/or grilling, foodstuff, comprising in combination a. a housing, b. a carrier for the foodstuff to be heat treated operable to be at least temporarily supported by said housing, c. a heat source disposed in said housing, and d. reflector means disposed in said housing and operable for guiding heat rays from said heat source towards the foodstuff on said carrier and comprising support means mounted with relation to said housing and defining a contour forming the reflector shape, and a single sheet of flexible metal foil bent concavely to form a reflector supported easily exchangeably with relation to said support means.

2. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said flexible metal foil being easily removably aligned along said contour of said support means.

3. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said reflector being removably held against said support means.

4. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said flexible metal foil reflector lining said support means.

5. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said support means including a backing and a support, said reflector being supported between said support and backing.

6. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said support means including a backing for said reflector forming a continuous wall.

7. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said support means including a grid.

8. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said support means being composed of resilient material.

9. A device, as claimed in claim 1, and a roll of said flexible metal foil material disposed in said housing.

10. A device, as claimed in claim 1, and a roll of said flexible metal foil disposed in said housing and including a portion of said flexible metal foil unrolled therefrom, said reflector forming a part of said unrolled portion.

11. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said support means being hinged to said housing.

12. A device, as claimed in claim 1, said reflector including an adhesive on one of its major surfaces disposed oppositely relative to said heat source.

13. A device for heat treating, such as toasting and/or grilling, foodstuff, comprising in combination a. a housing, b. a carrier for the foodstuff to be heat treated operable to be at least temporarily supported by said housing, c. a heat source disposed in said housing, and d. reflector means disposed in said housing and operable for guiding heat rays from said heat source towards the foodstuff on said carrier and comprising support means mounted with relation to said housing and a flexible metal foil reflector supported easily exchangeably with relation to said support means, said support means including at least one support in the form of a curved clip.

14. A device for heat treating, such as toasting and/or grilling, foodstuff, comprising in combination a. a housing, b. a carrier for the foodstuff to be heat treated operable to be at least temporarily supported by said housing, c. a heat source disposed in said housing, and d. reflector means disposed in said housing and operable for guiding heat rays from said heat source towards the foodstuff on said carrier and comprising support means mounted with relation to said housing and a flexible metal foil reflector supported easily exchangeably with relation to said support means, and clamp means operable for connecting releasably said Reflector to said support means.