Electric grill appliance
OwnerAlfred M. Potvininventor
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Abstract
An electric grill appliance comprising a main body having a bottom wall, opposed side walls and a top plate of heat conductive material. The top plate has an outer cooking surface and an undersurface facing the bottom wall. At least one resistive heating element is secured directly to the undersurface for heating the top plate. The body is supported above the horizontal plane by support means. A container is removably secured under the bottom wall and has liquid collecting means extending outside one or more of the opposed side walls. The top plate has liquid dispensing means in at least one outside edge thereof to direct liquid on the top plate outer cooking surface into the liquid collecting flange of the container.
Claims10
An electric grill appliance comprising a main body having a bottom wall, opposed side walls and a top horizontal plate of heat conductive material, said top plate having an outer cooking surface and an undersurface facing said bottom wall, at least one resistive heating element secured directly to said undersurface for heating said top plate, said body being supported above a horizontal plane by support means, a container removably secured under said bottom wall and having a liquid collecting flange extending outside one of said opposed side walls, a slot formed along a portion of an outside edge of said top plate extending beyond an opposed side wall, said slot being located in said undersurface adjacent the outer edge of said extension whereby hot liquid flowing on and about said outer edge will be caused to flow to the outer edge undersurface and be arrested to collect in droplets and fall by gravity onto said collecting flange and directed into said container under said bottom wall of said main body.
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