Apparatus for grilling with heat storing arrangement
OwnerHans Bauerinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for grilling with a heat storing arrangement, and a device for heating a grill grate and a grilling basin which contains a heat storage grate. Such apparatus which serves for grilling or roasting different foods, is supplied with a heating device which may consist of a coal burner or a heating element which may be operated by electricity or by gas. Such heating device is generally arranged in a grilling basin which is covered by a grill grate upon which the food to be roasted is put. For pre-heating and storing the heat to keep the food warm, a heat storage device may be attached.
Claims3
In a grilling apparatus which includes (a) a grill basin having forward and rear walls, (b) a heating element, grilling grate and heat-retaining warming storage grate operatively associated in the grill basin, (c) a hood having depending forward and rear walls defining a hollow channel opening toward the grill basin, and (d) means for pivotally mounting the hood to the grill basin for movement between a closed position and a fully open position with respect to the grill basin, the pivotal mounting means being located so that the rear wall of the hood overlaps the rear wall of the grill basin when the hood is pivoted away from the closed position, the pivotal mounting means comprising means for stably supporting the hood in a desired position intermediate the closed position and a fully open position, the improvement wherein the rear wall of the grill basin has openings therethrough for passage of a heated air stream out of the grill basin, whereby the overlapping portion of the hood chamber receives the heated air stream exiting from the rear wall of the grill basin via at least one of the openings therein when the hood is in an open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.