Cooking grill
OwnerAlfred F. Contarinoinventor
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Abstract
A cooking grill comprising a housing defining a cooking chamber and having a side opening therein, a heating element in the chamber, a drawer slidably disposed in the side opening, the drawer having a bottom tray and a front wall that substantially fills the side opening when the drawer is inserted in the housing, a grilling module adapted to sit in the drawer having a support portion for supporting a grilling surface, and a removable grilling surface, wherein the drawer can be inserted into the side opening in either a first orientation in which the bottom tray is below the heating element and the support portion is above the heating element or a second orientation rotated 180 degrees from the first orientation in which the bottom tray is above the heating element and the support portion is below the heating element.
Claims17
A cooking grill comprising:
- a housing defining a substantially enclosed cooking chamber and having a side opening therein, the side opening oriented substantially vertically;
- a heating element disposed in the cooking chamber;
- a grilling module slidably disposable in the cooking chamber relative to the housing and the heating element through the side opening, the grilling module having a major panel and a peripheral wall extending substantially orthogonally from the major panel and including a support portion for supporting a cooking surface;
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- a cooking surface disposable in the support portion of the grilling module generally parallel to and spaced from the major panel;
- wherein the grilling module is adapted to be positioned within the cooking grill in either a first orientation in which the major panel is below the heating element and the support portion is above the heating element and a second orientation 180 degrees rotated from the first orientation in which the major panel is above the heating element and the support portion is below the heating element.
A cooking grill comprising:
- a housing defining a substantially enclosed cooking chamber and having a side opening therein, the side opening oriented substantially vertically;
- a heating element disposed in the cooking chamber;
- a grilling module slidably disposable in the cooking chamber relative to the heating element and the housing through the side opening, the grilling module having a major panel and a peripheral wall extending substantially orthogonally from the major panel and including a support portion for supporting a cooking surface;
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- a cooking surface disposable in the support portion of the grilling module generally parallel to and spaced from the major panel;
- wherein the grilling module is adapted to be positioned within the cooking grill in either a first orientation in which the major panel is below the heating element and the support portion is above the heating element or a second orientation 180 degrees rotated from the first orientation in which the major panel is above the heating element and the support portion is below the heating element;
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- a first corrugated sheet defining a series of troughs and peaks in the sheet;
- a second corrugated sheet defining a series of troughs and peaks in the sheet and positioned generally parallel to and vertically spaced below the first sheet;
- a plurality of slots formed at least the first sheet, the slots running parallel the corrugations such that matter falling from food placed on top of the grilling surface will fall through the slots into the troughs of the second sheet;
- slots formed in the second sheet, the slots formed in the corrugations between adjacent peaks and troughs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.