Radiant embers cooking system
AssigneeThe Boltz Group, LLC
InventorsErica Boltz, Randy May, Bradley Gleaton
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Abstract
A heat tent for a gas grill apparatus located between the burner and the food to shield the burners of a gas grill to protect the burners from grease drippings and food deposits, to allow additional heat to reach the food for searing and other application, to glow and provide radiant heat to optimally and evenly cook of the food while allowing the flames to be more visible so as to know that the burner is turned on even food is placed all over the tent.
Claims20
A method for making a heat tent for a cooking grill comprising a burner, the method comprising:
- a. cutting a sheet metal according to a predetermined profile;
- b. preparing a plurality of openings at predetermined intervals on the sheet metal;
- c. bending the sheet to a predetermined angle along the central line to form a central ridge portion, a first sloped surface and a second sloped surface of the heat tent, wherein first sloped surface and a second sloped surface meet along the ridge;
- e. fixing a bracket to the sloped surfaces, wherein the bracket is designed to create a space between the bracket and the sloped surface;
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- f. removably placing a screen into the space between the bracket and the sloped surface to cover the openings, the screen for protecting the burner from grease or other food drippings.
A method for making a heat tent for a cooking grill comprising a burner, the method comprising:
- a. cutting a sheet metal according to a predetermined profile, having a lower portion and an upper portion;
- b. preparing plurality rows of symmetrical rectangular openings at predetermined intervals on the lower portion and the upper portion of the sheet;
- c. folding the lower portion of the sheet along the central line of the sheet to match the openings on the lower portion with the openings on the upper portion of the sheet;
- d. removably placing one or more screens in between the upper and lower portion of the sheet to cover the openings, the screens for protecting the burner from grease or other food drippings;
- e. joining the edges of the lower and the upper portions of the sheet permanently to form a folded sheet;
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- f. bending the folded sheet to a predetermined angle along the central line to form a central ridge portion, a first sloped surface and a second sloped surface of the heat tent, wherein the first sloped surface and the second sloped surface meet along the ridge.
A heat tent for a cooking grill comprising a burner, the heat tent comprising:
- a. a first sloped surface, a second sloped surface, and a central ridge portion, wherein the first and second sloped surfaces meet along the central ridge portion;
- b. one or more openings defining one or more blank areas on each of the sloped surfaces;
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- c. one or more screens disposed within the one or more blank areas, wherein each blank area on each sloped surface comprises a holding means for removably holding the one or more screens within each of the openings, the screens for protecting the burner from grease or other food drippings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.