EP2476958A2 - Pan support assembly for a gas hob and gas hob - Google Patents

Abstract

The pot supporting arrangement comprises gas burners (10,11,12,13) and multiple pot supporting elements (2,3,4) that form a supporting surface (25) for a cooking container in an area of the gas burner. Two pot support elements form a storage space (24) between two gas burners outside a burner flame area. An independent claim is also included for a gas stove with a cooking surface.

Description

The present invention relates to a pot carrier arrangement for a gas hob and a gas hob with a pot carrier arrangement

Gas hobs are produced, for example, as part of stoves or as integratable gas hobs in kitchen worktops. Several gas burners are arranged in the hob, which can be controlled via controls. To keep the cooking containers, such as pans or pots, at a suitable distance from the burner flame, pot carriers are provided. The pot carriers are usually connected to the gas hob and create a support surface for food containers.

From the DE 102 908 016 628 A1 For example, a gas hob with a pot carrier is known, which is attached to the edges of a trough. Further, a cover for a pot carrier base is proposed to reduce the contamination of the pot carrier. To cover a gas hob as completely as possible, for example, so that pots can be moved from one cooking to another, also surface pot carriers are known, which extend over the entire hob. For hobs, which include four or more hotplates, the cleaning of such surface pot carrier is due to the size usually difficult. In addition, because of the geometry of the cooktop or the gas burner fixtures, a fixation of such surface pot carriers is often difficult to accomplish.

Against this background, an object of the present invention is to provide an improved pot carrier.

Accordingly, a pot carrier assembly for a gas hob with a plurality of gas burners is proposed. In this case, the pot carrier arrangement comprises a plurality of pot carrier elements, and a respective pot carrier element forms a bearing surface for a food container in the region of a gas burner. At least two pot carrier elements form a storage area between two gas burners outside a burner flame area, in particular for a food storage container.

The proposed pot carrier arrangement enables the realization of a surface pot carrier in a modular arrangement. The pot carrier elements can for example completely cover the gas hob as segments. By dividing the pot carrier arrangement into pot carrier elements, which in each case form a single pot carrier as partial functions, the pot carrier arrangement can be cleaned more easily overall. For example, the pot carrier elements can be washed off in a sink. In addition, pot carrier elements can cover areas outside the gas burners, for example by means of interrupted struts, which form the storage area.

The pot carrier elements preferably form a surface pot carrier above the gas hob.

In one embodiment of the pot carrier arrangement, a pot carrier element comprises a frame forming a base surface of the pot carrier element and a plurality of fingers extending inwardly from the frame. Tops of the inwardly projecting fingers form the support surface for a food container.

For example, the frame can be made square and placed on a hob plate of the gas hob. A fixation of the frame of the pot carrier elements can be done for example by a suitable heat shield to a respective gas burner. In this case, angular geometries for heat shields and Topfträgerelementrahmen have proven to be useful.

In a further embodiment of the pot carrier arrangement, a pot carrier element comprises at least one finger projecting outwardly from the frame, wherein upper sides of the outwardly projecting fingers form the shelf.

In conventional pot carriers or Einzeltopfträgern only inwardly projecting fingers are provided. The outwardly projecting and the shelf forming fingers allow a particularly reliable moving a cookware, for example, from a position above the gas burner to a position laterally thereof. In a further embodiment of the pot carrier arrangement, a pot carrier element may comprise a support finger projecting outwardly from the frame, which forms a part of the standing surface.

The support finger prevents, for example, tipping over the pot carrier element when a cookware is placed exclusively on the side or next to the gas burner flame.

It is also conceivable that in a pot carrier arrangement, a pot carrier element is designed to cover a plurality of gas burners. For example, two or more gas burners can be covered by only one pot carrier element, so that a single pot carrier element provides a bearing surface for a plurality of gas burners.

The storage surfaces of at least two pot carrier elements preferably form a common storage area extending over areas of a plurality of gas burners. For example, a free space can be provided between two gas burners, which is covered by the storage area forming elements of the pot carrier elements.

Furthermore, a gas hob with a hob plate, a plurality of gas burners arranged on the hob plate, and a pot carrier arrangement with several pan carrier elements are proposed. A respective pot carrier element forms a support surface for a food container in the region of a gas burner, and at least two pot carrier elements form a storage area between two gas burners outside a burner flame region.

A correspondingly configured gas hob can be cleaned particularly easily with regard to the pot carrier arrangement. Furthermore, sufficient storage space for cookware in addition to burner flames can be created by the storage area in the manner of a surface pot carrier.

Preferably, a level of the common storage area above the gas hob is the same. In particular, in a similar embodiment of the pot carrier elements, they can be placed directly on a hob plate. In this case, fixing can be provided.

Preferably, the common shelf is formed by piece by piece adjacent horizontal struts. The struts may be, for example, outwardly directed fingers of the pot carrier elements. In this case, the fingers of different pot carrier elements can abut each other or be spaced apart by a gap.

Preferably, the hob plate is at least partially made of hard glass or glass ceramic. These materials allow a particularly attractive aesthetic appearance of a gas hob. In particular, only slight deformations of hard glass or glass ceramic result from temperature changes during operation of the gas burners. This makes it particularly easy to create from several segments or pot support elements, the entire pot carrier assembly, which creates a flat parking and / or support surface.

Alternatively, the hob plate can also be at least partially made of a metal sheet in the manner of a trough. Preferably, then the metal sheet is glued underneath with a hard glass or glass ceramic plate. The hard glass or glass ceramic plate largely prevents deformation as a function of temperature changes of the metal sheet. Even then, a particularly uniform coverage of the gas hob by the pot carrier assembly can be achieved, wherein the pot carrier elements form both a flat composite storage area.

In a further development of the gas hob, planar heat shields are arranged in the areas of the gas burners. The pot carrier elements are then placed form-fitting manner on the heat shields. The heat shield may be used in the manner of a polygonal disk to thermally shield the cooktop panel from a heat of the gas burner. The preferably rectangular and in particular square executed geometry of the heat shield allows reliable shielding of the hob plate on the one hand and on the other hand, a simple mounting of the pot carrier elements.

Preferably, the respective heat shield has a smooth surface and no indentations or noses along its peripheral edge. The heat shield is preferably flat and disc-shaped.

In the gas hob, the pot carrier elements preferably comprise polygonal frames, each of which surround a polygonal heat shield and can be placed on the respective heat shield so as to be able to slip and be secured against rotation. A combination of rectangular heat shields with pot-mountable elements which can be placed on them in a form-fitting manner makes it possible to achieve a simple covering of the entire gas hob area. Further fixation is usually not necessary for the pot carrier elements.

Further possible implementations of the invention also include not explicitly mentioned combinations of features described above or below with regard to the exemplary embodiments. The expert will also add individual aspects as improvements or additions to the respective basic shape of the pot carrier arrangement or the gas hob.

Further advantageous embodiments and aspects of the invention are the subject of the dependent claims and the embodiments of the invention described below. Furthermore, the invention will be explained in more detail by means of preferred embodiments with reference to the attached figures.

• Fig. 1: eine perspektivische Darstellung einer ersten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung;
• Fig. 2: eine Darstellung der ersten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung in der Draufsicht;
• Fig. 3: eine schematische Querschnittsansicht der ersten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit Topfträgerelementen;
• Fig. 4: eine perspektivische Darstellung einer zweiten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung;
• Fig. 5: eine Darstellung der zweiten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung in der Draufsicht;
• Fig. 6: eine perspektivische Darstellung einer dritten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung;
• Fig. 7: eine Darstellung der dritten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung in der Draufsicht;
• Fig. 8: eine Darstellung der vierten Ausführungsform eines Gaskochfeldes mit einer Topfträgeranordnung in der Draufsicht.

It shows:

• Fig. 1 a perspective view of a first embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly;
• Fig. 2 a representation of the first embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly in plan view;
• Fig. 3 a schematic cross-sectional view of the first embodiment of a gas hob with pot carrier elements;
• Fig. 4 a perspective view of a second embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly;
• Fig. 5 a representation of the second embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly in plan view;
• Fig. 6 a perspective view of a third embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly;
• Fig. 7 a representation of the third embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly in plan view;
• Fig. 8 : An illustration of the fourth embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier assembly in plan view.

In the figures, the same or functionally identical elements have been given the same reference numerals, unless stated otherwise.

In the FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 a first embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier arrangement is shown. It shows the FIG. 1 a perspective view, the FIG. 2 a plan view and the FIG. 3 a cross-sectional view.

The gas hob 1 is designed as a built-in hob with a hob plate 14, for example made of glass or glass ceramic. In the glass ceramic plate 14 openings for four gas burners 10, 11, 12, 13 are provided, which can be controlled in terms of their performance via controls 15. In particular, on the hand of the FIG. 2 one recognizes the rectangular shape of the hob plate 14 and the gas burners 10, 11, 12, 13 usually arranged in the four quadrants.

In the areas of the gas burners 10, 11, 12, 13 14 heat shields 16, 17, 18, 19 are provided to protect the glass ceramic plate. The heat shields are made, for example, of metal and have a square floor plan. The heat shields also have an opening so that the gas burner or other fittings from a bottom of the hob plate 14 on the top, so the actual gas hob 1 can extend. The heat shields 16, 17, 18, 19 prevent in particular that heat reflected from the food container is reflected back directly onto the hob plate 14 and could damage it. In addition, the geometry of the heat shields 16, 17, 18, 19 allows a safe placement of pot carrier elements 2, 3, 4. The pot carrier elements are made for example of metal and serve on the one hand to form a Support surface 25 for a food container above the respective gas burner and on the other hand the formation of a storage area 24 in addition to the gas burners. This can be seen in the FIGS. 1 and 2 in particular in the area between the two rear gas burners 10, 11.

The pot carrier assembly comprises in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3 , Three pot support elements 2, 3, 4. The pot support elements 2, 3, 4 each have a rectangular frame 20 which can be positively placed on the example, similarly executed heat shields 16, 17, 18, 19. This results in a torsion-proof and slip-proof fixation in the region of the gas burners 10, 11, 12, 13.

In the FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the pot carrier elements 2 and 3 indicated. The quadrangular frame 20 lies flat on the glass ceramic plate 14 and forms a base 26 of the respective pot support element 2, 3. Protruding vertically from the frame 20 spaced fingers 21 inwardly toward the gas burner 10, 11. The tops of the fingers form the Support surface 25 for a food container 27, which in the FIG. 3 on the right is indicated. In addition, the pot carrier elements 2, 3 also include outwardly directed fingers 22, whose upper side serve to form a shelf 24. In order to increase the footprint 26, support fingers 23 are also provided on the frame 20. The support fingers 23 are also on the surface of the glass ceramic plate 14.

In the area between the two burners 10, 11 thus a shelf 24 is formed. The shelf 24 is, as in the FIGS. 1 and 2 is indicated by created between the gas burner areas extending struts. The struts are piecewise assembled. For example, a left part of the in FIG. 3 indicated strut 28A formed by the left pot support member 1 and the right part 28B of the right pot support member 3. Overall, a flat surface of shelf 24 and support surface 25 results over several gas burner of the gas hob. The two strut members 28A and 28B may abut each other at their head ends and support each other. However, there may also be a gap or clearance between the strut members 28A and 28B as seen in FIG FIG. 3 is indicated, be provided.

The proposed pot carrier arrangement allows easy covering of several gas burners in the manner of surface pot carriers without the usual disadvantages of conventional surface pot carriers. In particular, the simple attachment or resting on or on the heat shields and the simple geometry are advantageous. The pot support elements can be easily cleaned or replaced. One can achieve different geometries of pot support surfaces in particular by selecting the pot carrier elements.

The FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment of a gas hob with a pot carrier arrangement in a perspective view. The FIG. 5 shows the same gas hob in the plan view. The gas hob 29 substantially corresponds to the embodiment of the Figures 1 - 3 , The same elements are provided with the same reference numerals, and will not be discussed in detail again. One recognizes that in comparison to FIG. 2 another pot support element 5 was added front left. Thus, a storage area completely results between the two rows of gas burners 10, 12 and 11, 13. At the front and rear frame supporting fingers 23 are provided at the level of the base. It can be so easy, as in the FIG. 5 visible, pots or pans, for example, from a powerful gas burner 11 to a medium-strength gas burner 10 are pushed over the shelf 24 over. The shelf 24 is at the same level with the respective support surface 25 in the burner area. The combination, in particular a glass ceramic plate 14 with heat shields 16, 17, 18, 19 and the pot carrier segments 2, 3, 4, 5, can reliably a flat surface or an equal level of Abstell- and support surface 24, 25 can be achieved.

The pot carrier assembly in a modular manner also allows the insertion of different pan supports on or around different gas burners. The FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of a third embodiment 30 of a gas hob and the FIG. 7 a corresponding pot carrier assembly 30 in plan view. It was in the FIG. 7 the front left inserted pot carrier or the pot carrier element 5 removed. In the case of the two right-hand gas burners 11, 13, a double pot carrier 6 is used, which comprises both right burners 11, 13 and rests on the respective heat shields 17, 18. In the FIG. 6 it can be seen that the two left pot support elements 2, 5 are designed differently. The rear pot carrier element 2 has six behind inner protruding fingers 21 and three outwardly projecting fingers 22. The front left pot carrier 5 is carried out conventionally and has only four inwardly projecting fingers. Thus, the support and storage surfaces can be flexibly adapted to the installation conditions and wishes of the operator.

Finally, in the FIG. 8 a further embodiment of a gas hob 31 shown in plan view. Essentially, the gas hob 31 corresponds to the in FIG. 2 shown. However, the pot carrier elements 2, 3, 4 are executed without support fingers. Depending on the length extension of the outwardly extending fingers 22 for forming the shelf 24 between gas burners 2, 3, 4 corresponding support fingers can be provided or saved.

The presented variants of the gas hob with pot carrier elements and heat shields provide a simple way to protect heat-sensitive surface areas of cooktop panels against overheating and at the same time form a pot carrier in the manner of a surface pot carrier. The segmentation or modularization of the pot carrier using the pot carrier elements allows easy cleaning and easy extension of the shelf. The heat shield is flat in the manner of a disc designed and easier to clean because no over- or projections, notches or orientation means are used. The same applies to a pot carrier elements used, which also have a particularly simple geometry along the edge of the heat shield. For example, the heat shield is provided with a smooth polished surface so it is easy to clean. The size or area of the heat shield and the pot carrier elements can be adapted to the particular installation conditions, the material properties of the cooktop plate and the potentially maximum performance of the gas burner.

Used reference signs:

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Gas hob

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Pot support element

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gas burner

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Hotplate

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operating element

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heat shield

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Topftragerrahmen

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shelf

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bearing surface

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footprint

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cooking pot

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pursuit

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Gas hob

Claims (15)

Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) for a gas hob (1) with a plurality of gas burners (10 - 13), wherein the pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) comprises a plurality of pot carrier elements (2, 3, 4), and a respective pot carrier element (2 , 3) a bearing surface (25) for a food container (27) in the region of a gas burner (10, 11), characterized in that at least two pot carrier elements (2, 3) between two gas burners (10, 11) outside a burner flame area a storage area (24) form. Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to claim 1, characterized in that the pot carrier elements (2, 3, 4) form a surface pot carrier over the gas hob (1). Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that a pot carrier element (2) has a base (26) of the pot carrier element (2) forming frame (20) and a plurality of the frame (20) inwardly projecting Finger (21), wherein upper sides of the inwardly projecting fingers (21) form the support surface (25) for a food container (27). Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to claim 3, characterized in that a pot carrier element (2) at least one of the frame (20) outwardly projecting finger (222), wherein upper sides of the outwardly projecting fingers (22) the shelf (24) form. Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that a pot carrier element (2) comprises a frame (20) outwardly projecting support fingers (23) which forms part of the base (26). Pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to one of claims 1 - 5, characterized in that a pot carrier element (6) for covering a plurality of gas burners (11, 13) is configured. Gas hob (1) with a hob plate (14), a plurality of gas burners (10 - 13) arranged on the hob plate (14) and a pot carrier arrangement (2, 3, 4) according to one of Claims 1-6. Gas hob (1) according to claim 7, characterized in that the storage surfaces (24) of at least two pot carrier elements (2, 3) over a range of multiple gas burners (10, 11) reaching common storage area form. Gas hob (1) according to claim 8, characterized in that a level of the common storage area over the gas hob (1) is the same. Gas hob (1) according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the common shelf is formed by piecewise juxtaposed horizontal struts (28A, 28B). Gas hob (1) according to any one of claims 7 - 10, characterized in that the hob plate (14) is at least partially made of hard glass or glass ceramic. Gas hob (1) according to any one of claims 7 - 10, characterized in that the hob plate 14) is at least partially made of a metal sheet in the manner of a trough and one with a glued on the metal sheet below hard glass or glass ceramic plate. Gas hob (1) according to any one of claims 7 - 12, further with planar and in the areas of the gas burners 10 - 13) arranged heat shields (16 - 19), wherein the pot carrier elements (2, 3, 4) positively on the heat shields (16 - 19). 19) can be placed. Gas hob (1) according to claim 13, characterized in that the heat shields (16 - 19) rectangular, in particular square, are executed. Gas hob (1) according to claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the pot carrier elements (2, 3, 4) polygonal frame (20) comprise, each having a Circumferential heat shield (16 - 19) circulate and on the respective heat shield (16 - 19) slipping and are against rotation placed.

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