Infrared gas grill
OwnerWillie H. Bestinventor
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Abstract
A hollow, upright cabinet supports therein a cooking grid and a plurality of upwardly facing gas burners which emit infrared head toward the cooking grid. A shield assembly having angled baffles is removeably mounted over the burners to shield the meat directly above the burners on the grid from the infrared rays and protects the burners from the drippings of the meat. The spaced baffles however permit the infrared radiation to pass upwardly, at an angle to impinge on meat at the rear of the grid.
Claims26
An infrared grill of the type having a cabinet and an infrared emitter disposed within said cabinet said infrared emitter having an upper surface for generating infrared radiation upwardly, a cooking grid carried by said cabinet above and in spaced relationship to said infrared emitter, wherein the improvement comprises:
- an emitter shield assembly disposed over said infrared emitter and below said cooking grid, said emitter shield assembly having spaced baffles extending over said emitter and spaced below said cooking grid for shielding said infrared emitter from drippings from food supported by said grid above said infrared emitter, said baffles being so disposed with respect to each other and with respect to said cooking grid, that the infrared radiation from the said infrared emitter will pass directly from said infrared emitter between said baffles and impinge on the food disposed on a portion of said cooking grid.
An assembly comprising an infrared emitter having gas infrared heating elements disposed horizontally, a frame surrounding said infrared elements, a plurality of spaced, angularly disposed baffles above said elements, spacing means for securing said baffles together and support means secured to said baffles and mounted on said frame for supporting said baffles in spaced relationship to and above said infrared elements.
An infrared emitter assembly comprising:
- (a) a plenum open at the top;
- (b) means for introducing an air gas combustible mixture into said plenum;
- (c) a burner assembly for closing the open top of said plenum, said burner assembly including:
- i. a plurality of ceramic foraminous, radiant burners arranged in juxtaposition;
- ii. a lower frame for supporting the bottom edges of said ceramic radiant burners;
- iii. an upper frame open for surrounding the upper edge portions of said ceramic radiant burners, said upper frame and said lower frame being joined for sandwiching said ceramic radiant burners, therebetween, said lower frame extending over the open upper end of said plenum;
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- (d) means removably joining one of the frames to said plenum.
Process for simultaneously cooking meats at different rates comprising:
- (a) disposing an infrared radiation emitter in a prescribed position for emitting infrared radiation in an upward direction;
- (b) supporting meats to be cooked in transversely spaced locations above said emitter, one location being vertically above said emitter;
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- (c) shielding the meat located in said one location from the full intensity of the infrared radiation from the emitter while permitting the maximum radiation from the emitter to impinge on the meat in the other location.
An infrared grill comprising:
- (a) a gas infrared burner having heating elements disposed generally horizontally along its upper surface and through which combustible gas passes and which are heated by combustion of the gas to emit infrared rays;
- (b) an emitter shield disposed over said heating elements, said shield having spaced angularly disposed parallel baffles;
- (c) a cooking grid in spaced relationship over said baffles, said grid having at least one dimension greater than a dimension of said shield, for providing a first cooking area on said grid which is over and shielded by said baffles from the infrared direct rays generated by said heating elements and for providing a second cooking area which is sufficiently spaced from said first cooking area that it is not over said baffles;
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- (d) said baffles being spaced apart sufficiently that the infared rays generated by said heating element can readily pass directly angularly upward between the spaced between the baffles and impinge upon the food disposed in said second cooking area for providing infrared heating of such food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.