Cooking unit with radiant heaters
AssigneeE.G.O. Elektro-Gerate Blanc u. Fischer
InventorsFelix Schreder, Gerhard Gossler
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Abstract
In a cooking unit (1) in the marginal region of the underside of hotplate (3) a tensile stressed support (4) is fixed immediately adjacent to the outer circumference (8) of a radiant heater (2). Support (4) engages below a cover (13) of the insulation of radiant heater (2) serving as a base plate and at least one spring (22) is arranged between a marginal strip (16) and the underengaging leg (19), so that a prestressed, closed assembly for fitting in a hob or the like is formed. Appropriately there are several closely juxtaposed, rectangular radiant heaters (4) with in each case separately switchable or regulatable heating circuits, so that at least approximately 85% of the total surface of the cooking field can be directly heated.
Claims18
A cooking unit for cookers and especially for industrial kitchen cookers, said cooking unit comprising:
- a top plate arranged at a top of the cooking unit and having bottom and top sides, an entire cooking field being defined on said top side and defining a total surface of said entire cooking field;
- at least two separate electric radiant heater means arranged on the bottom side of said top plate, said radiant heater means forming a number of separately controllable cooking points positioned adjacent each other in the entire cooking field of said top plate, each radiant heater means having an external border shape defining outer sides;
- each said radiant heater means having at least one radiator heating element defining a heating field, said radiator heating element being arranged in a support shell, thereby providing at least two support shells;
- an understructure arranged below said top plate, each said radiant heater means resting against said understructure and being pressed against the bottom side of said hotplate, wherein said understructure is provided with a separate receptacle for each of the radiant heater means, each said receptacle being adapted to an external border shape of a corresponding radiant heater means for receiving said radiant heater means and securing said radiant heater means against all lateral movements, all said receptacles substantially directly adjoining each other, thereby rendering the entire cooking field heatable uninterruptedly over an area of substantially at least 85% of its total surface by said electric heater means, said electric heater means being separately inserted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.