Stove top grill
OwnerFrank H. Matthewsinventor
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Abstract
A unit for placing on one or two burners of a gas or electric range, which applies air heated thereby to cook food on an elevated grill while catching fat, juices or sauces in a container kept cool enough by the internal construction thereof to prevent excessive smoking or cooking odors from escaping the unit. This is accomplished by providing a heat deflector, convection current diffuser which passes the heat from the burner around the fat receptacle and convects and radiates the heat onto the food.
Claims11
A device for applying heat to food, said heat supplied by a stove top burner, said stove top burner having a relatively cool air passage through the center thereof, said device including:
- a horizontal grill adapted to have food rested thereon;
- a body having an open bottom portion adapted to rest on the stove top around at least one of the stove top burners, a top portion adapted to support said grill a predetermined distance above the stove top, and a central portion;
- heat deflector means mounted spaced from said body within said central portion of said body, said heat deflector means including:
- at least one truncated, inverted pyramidal heat deflector defining an open top and open bottom, said defined open bottom being positioned within said body so as to be located centrally above the at least one stove top burner;
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- a drip pan mounted between said heat deflector means and said grill, said heat deflector means and said drop pan being sized and positioned to block direct line of sight communication between any burner about which said open body portion is resting and said horizontal grill while allowing convective heating paths between said open bottom portion and said horizontal grill.
A device for applying heat supplied by a stove top burner to food, said device including:
- a grill;
- a body having an open bottom portion adapted to rest on the stove top around at least one of the stove top burners, a top portion adapted to support said grill a predetermined distance above the stove top, and a central portion;
- heat deflector means mounted spaced from said body within said central portion of said body, said heat deflector means including a pair of truncated, inverted pyramidal heat deflectors each defining an open top and open bottom, said defined open bottoms being positioned within said body so as to be located centrally above a stove top burner, said pair of truncated, inverted pyramidal heat deflectors including a common edge, said pair of truncated, inverted pyrimidal heat deflectors being connected together at their upper open ends at said common edge, said heat deflector means including a heat deflecting wedge positioned below said common edge to deflect heat away therefrom;
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- a drip pan mounted between said heat deflector means and said grill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.