ES2773939T3 - Cooker battery holder and gas cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

Cooking battery holder (1) for a gas burner (2) with several frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D) flat straight and several wings (6A, 6B, 6C, 6D), protruding inwards from the frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D), the upper sides of which form a bearing surface (SA) for a cooking product container, where at least one of the straight flat frame slats (1A) is arranged vertically with respect to the remaining frame slats (1B, 1C, 1D), which are arranged horizontally, whereby the at least one vertical frame slat (1A) forms a thermal protection of the cooking battery support (1) and where The at least one vertical frame slat (1A) is formed by bending in a vertical orientation a flat polygonal frame of flat horizontal frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D), where the frame slats (1B, 1C, 1D) arranged horizontally form a base surface (SB) of the cookware support (1) in or on e a cooking hob (9), where the at least one vertical frame strip (1A) is arranged in such a way that between the base surface (SB) of the cooking battery holder (1) and a lower edge (5) of the at least one vertical frame slat (1A) there is a distance (A) for the secondary air supply (AS).

Description

DESCRIPTION

Cookware holder and gas cooktop

The present invention relates to a cooking battery support for a gas burner and a gas cooking point. The cookware holders are arranged around a gas burner to create a bearing surface for the cookware containers.

Known cookware holders are generally designed as a circular frame with inwardly projecting wings, where the wings create the bearing surface. Gas cooktops or gas cooktops are often designed as part of a floor-standing kitchen or otherwise also as a cooktop integrated into a kitchen worktop. In the latter case, a cover plate made of enameled steel, stainless steel or also a glass-ceramic or tempered glass forms the visible surface of the gas cooking range. The control knobs or buttons are then arranged perpendicularly on the cover plate. In order that, when operating the control elements during the lit state of one of the gas burners, the heat in the control element position does not become too high, sufficient distances must be provided between the burner and the control handle. Therefore, in the past, thermal protection walls in the shape of a circular arc have been proposed, for example in DE 10346 962 A1 or in EP 1673 579 A1, which nevertheless hinder the production of the cooktop supports due to complex geometries.

Document WO 2008/068585 A2 describes a cooking battery holder for a gas burner. The cookware holder comprises several frame slats that form a base surface of the cookware holder. The cooking battery holder further comprises wings the upper sides of which form a bearing surface for a container of cooking product.

Against this background, the object of the present invention is to provide an improved cookware holder for a gas cooktop.

Accordingly, a cooking battery holder is proposed for a gas burner comprising several straight flat frame slats and several wings, projecting inwardly from the frame slats, the upper sides of which form a bearing surface for a cooking container. cooking product. In this sense, at least one of the straight flat frame slats is arranged vertically with respect to the remaining frame slats, whereby the at least one vertical frame slat forms a thermal protection of the cooking battery holder. The remaining frame slats are arranged here horizontally, where the horizontally arranged frame slats form a base surface of the cookware holder in or on a cooking hob, where the at least one vertical frame slat is arranged such that between the base surface of the cookware holder and a lower edge of the at least one vertical frame slat there is a distance for the supply of secondary air, and where the at least one vertical frame slat is formed by bending in a vertical orientation of a flat polygonal frame of flat horizontal frame slats.

By "straight flat frame slats" it is understood below that the slat has a width and a height in the cross section, for example in the manner of a strip. In this regard, the width is greater, preferably at least two times greater, with respect to the height. The term "straight frame cleat" is understood in such a way that there are no bends or roundings along the respective frame cleat. By making up from several straight flat frame strips, polygonal cooking battery support frames, for example circulating around the respective gas burner, can be implemented which are easily manufacturable.

The vertically arranged frame strip (s) here shield the gas burner present in the frame. In this way, a direct radiation from the burner flame is interrupted in a direction beyond the vertical frame strip. Consequently, a thermal protection screen is integrated in the cooking battery holder. This way, you can do without additional material for separate heat shields that should be installed with clips.

The horizontally arranged frame slats form a base surface of the cookware holder in or on a cooktop. The flat and horizontal frame slats thus guarantee a stable seating of the cooking battery holder.

The at least one vertical frame slat is arranged in such a way that there is a distance for the supply of secondary air between the base surface of the cookware holder and a lower edge of the at least one vertical frame slat. By way of example in a quadrangular embodiment of the cookware holder, a "U" -shaped arrangement of the horizontal frame strips forms the base surface of the cookware holder, where the vertical frame rail, which closes the "U", guarantees a hole or an opening for the supply of secondary air in the gas burners.

Preferably, the cooking battery holder is made of a piece of material. Generally, metal such as stainless steel is used. Other materials are also conceived. For example, the aluminum cookware holder can be produced with a heat-resistant plastic coating.

The at least one vertical frame slat is formed by bending in a vertical orientation a flat or angular polygonal frame of flat horizontal frame slats. By bending, for example at the corners or starting points of the frame strip provided vertically with the other frame strips, a particularly good overall aesthetic impression can be achieved. Furthermore, manufacturing is simplified since no procedural steps such as welding or plug-in or threaded joints are necessary.

The cookware holder is furthermore provided with several wings projecting inwardly from the frame slats. The upper sides of the wings here form a bearing surface for a container for cooking product. In a variant of the cookware holder, the upper edge of the at least one vertical frame strip protrudes from the support surface. Through the width and / or the degree of upward bending of the vertical frame strip, the measure of the thermal protection can be adjusted.

Furthermore, it is possible that a number of adjoining frame slats, arranged vertically, are provided to form a respective corner of a cooking battery support frame.

Preferably, the cookware support exclusively comprises flat and straight frame strips. Therefore, rounded or bent frame slats are not to be provided to configure the manufacture of the cookware holder as simply as possible. The flat and straight frame slats can be produced in one piece of material from a metal sheet, or they can also be composed separately and joined together. Joining can occur through welding, gluing, plugging, or other means.

Furthermore, a gas cooking point with at least one gas burner and a cooking battery support is proposed as described above.

Preferably, the gas cooking point further comprises a control element for the gas burner. In this connection, the gas burner, the cooking battery holder and the control element are arranged on a cooking surface or on a cooking hob. The cookware holder is arranged here in such a way that the vertical frame strip lies between the gas burner and the control element as a thermal protection. By means of this proposed arrangement on or on a cooking surface, it is achieved that, when the control element such as a handle, a rotary regulator or the like is directed or actuated, the gas burner never radiates directly towards the control element.

By way of example, the gas burner and the cooking battery holder are arranged in such a way that the vertical frame slat is closer to the gas burner than the remaining frame slats. In this sense, thanks to the vertical frame strip it is possible to create a more compact gas hob or hob as a whole that requires less space.

In one embodiment of the gas cooktop, it is designed as a cooking surface or cooking hob with several gas burners, cookware supports and control elements. Furthermore, the vertical frame strips of the various cooktop supports form a thermal protection screen around a control panel with control elements for the cooktop or cooktop. Consequently, the cooking battery holders can be used in a modular way, forming a circulating thermal protection screen around the control panel or the control elements.

Other embodiments and advantageous aspects of the invention are subject of the subclaims and exemplary embodiments of the invention described below. Furthermore, the invention is explained in more detail by means of preferred embodiments with reference to the attached figures.

In this regard, it shows:

Figure 1: schematic representations of a first embodiment of a cooking battery holder;

Figure 2: another embodiment of a cooking battery holder in perspective view;

Figure 3: an embodiment of a gas cooking point with several gas burners as a cooking hob;

Figure 4: schematic representations of other embodiments of a gas cooktop in top view; and

Figure 5: a schematic representation of yet another embodiment of a cooking battery holder in top view;

In the figures, elements of the same or equal function are accompanied by the same reference symbols as long as nothing else is indicated.

Figure 1 shows a first embodiment of a cooking battery holder in top view of a cross-sectional view and in perspective.

In FIG. 1A, a top view of a cooking battery support 1 is recognized, which can be arranged around a gas burner 2 as a cooking battery support frame. The cooking battery holder 1 comprises four flat frame slats 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. The three frame strips 1b, 1C, 1D are arranged horizontally here and form a frame part in the shape of a "U". The fourth frame slat 1A is arranged perpendicular to the horizontal frame slats 1B, 1C, 1D. In this way, the perpendicular or vertical frame strip 1A forms a thermal protection. FIG. 1A also shows a control element 3 as a rotary knob or handle. By means of the frame strip 1A positioned vertically, the control handle 3 is shielded from the infrared radiation radiated by the burner 2.

Figure 1B shows a cross section of the cookware holder 1. The horizontal frame slats 1B, 1C, 1D form a base surface SB of the cooker holder 1. The vertically spaced frame batten 1A is produced by bending . In Figure 1B, the initial position 1A 'of the frame slat to be provided vertically is indicated in dotted lines. By bending along the arrow B, the frame strip 1A stands vertically and, for example with its upper edge 4 then present together with support wings not shown here, a support surface SA can be implemented for a cooking product container such as a pot or frying pan.

Figure 1C shows the cooking battery holder for a gas burner in perspective view. As already indicated in connection with FIGS. 1A and 1B, the cooking battery support comprises in this regard a frame section in the shape of a "U" of the horizontal flat frame slats 1B, 1C, 1D and the frame strip 1A provided vertically, which closes the frame part in a "U" shape. Preferably, the frame slats 1A, 1B and 1C enclose a right angle. This is indicated in Figure 1C by the dotted lines V and H for the vertical and horizontal orientations.

FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment for a cooking battery holder in perspective representation. The cooking battery holder 1 again comprises flat and straight frame slats 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. The frame slats form a rectangular cookware support frame in top view. Inwardly from the cooking battery support frame there are inwardly directed wings or ribs 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, which with their upper edge form a bearing surface SA for a cooking product container. One of the frame slats 1A is arranged vertically and bent from the frame slats 1B and 1D in the corner area. The vertical frame strip 1A has an upper edge 4 and a lower edge 5. As already explained in relation to the embodiment of FIG. 1, the cooking battery holder 1 can be placed on a hob. cooking or on a cooking surface. In this sense, the horizontal flat frame strips 1B, 1C, 1D form a base surface SB. This is indicated in Figure 2 by the dotted line SB. In the exemplary embodiment, for a cookware holder 1, a distance HA is provided between the lower edge 5 and the base surface SB. Thus, it is possible for the secondary air AS to flow in the inward direction, as indicated by the arrow. Accordingly, the vertical frame batten 1A performs a double function. On the one hand, a thermal protection is integrated in the cooking battery holder 1 and, on the other hand, it makes it possible for sufficient secondary air SB to reach the burner to ensure safe combustion.

Thanks to the shape and construction of the cooking battery holder 1 with its vertical and horizontal frame slats, material is saved compared to the measures for thermal protection according to the state of the art. In principle, it is also possible by the thermal protection of the wing slat 1A 6A shorter vertical wings 6B, ^6C, 6D remaining, inwardly protruding. The distance or height HA, therefore, the opening for the secondary air AS, can be adjusted to the particularities of the gas cooker or the respective hob. The cookware holder also has the advantage that a separate thermal protection cannot be lost. Since the cookware holder and the heat shield are made in one piece, it can be easily cleaned. Furthermore, the proposed cooking battery holder also satisfies particularly demanding aesthetic requirements.

Figure 3 shows in perspective representation an embodiment of a cooking hob or a gas cooking point 10. Figure 3 schematically shows a cooking surface 9 which can be made, for example, as a flat stainless steel, tempered glass or ceramic hob. Three gas burners 2, 8 and 16 are provided on the cooking surface. Each gas burner 2, 8 and 16 is provided with a cooking battery holder 1, 11, 17. In this regard, the central cooking 11 is carried out in a conventional manner. Between the left burner 2 and the right burner 16 in the orientation of figure 3, control handles 13, 14, 15 are also provided perpendicularly on the cooking surface or hob 9. So that in particular the radiation from the burners 2, 16 external, that is, the left and the right, do not reach the control handles 13, 15 with too much intensity, vertical thermal protection frame slats 1A, 17A are provided. The two cooking battery supports 1, 17 correspond essentially to the representation of figure 2. In figure 3, it can be seen that the distance D1 between the control handle 14 and the corresponding burner 8 must be greater without thermal protection Note that, for example, the distance D2 between the control handle 15 and the burner 16, since between the control handle 15 and the burner 16 the frame strip 1A arranged vertically is present as thermal protection. Thanks to the distance indicated in figure 2 between the support surface and the lower edge of the vertical frame strip 1A, the secondary air AS can reach the burner 2, 16, as represented by the arrows AS. Especially in particularly powerful burners, a thermal protection 17A, 1A should be provided so that there is no danger of injury when operating the control handles 13, 14, 15 manually.

Figure 4 shows other variants of cooking hobs in top view. In figure 4A, a similar geometry to that shown in figure 3 is represented for a hob or cooking surface 10. On the cooking surface 10 there are provided three burners 2, 8, 16 that are provided in each case with supports of circulating cookware. Furthermore, a control area 21 is provided with control elements or handles 13, 14, 15. The control area 21 is surrounded by vertical frame slats 17A, 18A, 1A, so that there is thermal protection against burners 2, 8, 16. In figure 4, vertical frame slats are indicated by double lines. Figure 4B shows a modified geometry, where the cooking battery support provided around the central burner 8 is made in a rectangular shape and the two remaining burners 2, 16 present on the left and right with pentagonal cooking battery supports. One side of the pentagonal cooking battery support frame is arranged in each case vertically, for example bent. These are in figure 4B the flat vertical frame slats 1A and 17A. The control area 21 with the control handles 13, 14, 15 is again protected against radiation from the burners 2, 8, 16 through the vertical heat shields 1A, 17A, 18A.

Figure 5 finally shows another alternative embodiment of a cooking battery holder 20. The cooking battery holder 20 is represented in top view and comprises six straight flat frame slats 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F. Therefore, a hexagonal shape of the cooking battery support frame is configured. In this regard, two adjacent frame slats 1A, 1F are made vertically and form one of the corners 19. The remaining frame slats 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E are arranged horizontally. Obviously, other alternative geometries and cross-sections can be implemented for the cookware holders. In this regard, the particularities of the cooktop in question or aesthetic issues are taken into account.

REFERENCE SYMBOLS

1 Cooking battery holder 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F Frame strip

2 Gas burner

3 Control elements

4 Top edge

5 Lower edge

6A, 6B, 6C, 6D Wing 7 Corner bent

8 Burner

9 Cooking surface or hob 10 Gas cooking point

11 Cooking battery holder 13, 14, 15 Control handle

16 Gas burner

17 Cooking battery holder 17A, 17B, 17C, 17D Frame slats

18A Frame strip

19 Corner

20 Cooking battery holder 21 Control area

SA Support surface

SB Base surface

V Vertical

H Horizontal

AS Secondary air

D1, D2 Distances

HA Height

Claims (10)

1. Cooking battery holder (1) for a gas burner (2) with several frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D) flat straight and several wings (6A, 6B, 6C, 6D), protruding towards inside from the frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D), the upper sides of which form a bearing surface (SA) for a cooking product container, where at least one of the straight flat frame slats (1A) is arranged vertically with respect to the remaining frame slats (1B, 1C, 1D), which are arranged horizontally, whereby the at least one vertical frame slat (1A) forms a thermal protection of the cooking battery holder (1) and where the at least one vertical frame slat (1A) is formed by bending in a vertical orientation a flat polygonal frame of flat horizontal frame slats (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D), where the frame slats (1B, 1C, 1D) arranged horizontally form a base surface (SB) of the cookware holder (1) in os on a cooking hob (9), where the at least one vertical frame strip (1A) is arranged in such a way that between the base surface (SB) of the cooking battery holder (1) and a lower edge (5) From the at least one vertical frame slat (1A) there is a distance (A) for the secondary air supply (AS). Cookware holder (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the cookware holder (1) is made of a piece of material. Cookware holder (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that an upper edge (4) of the at least one vertical frame strip (1A) protrudes from the support surface (SA). Cookware holder (20) according to one of Claims 1-3, characterized in that several adjacent frame strips (1A, 1F) arranged vertically are provided, which form a corner (19) of a support frame of cooking battery. Cookware holder (1) according to one of claims 1-4, characterized in that the frame strips (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D) form a rectangular cookware holder frame. Cookware holder (1) according to one of Claims 1-5, characterized in that the cookware holder (1) exclusively comprises flat and straight frame strips (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D). Gas cooking point (10) with at least one gas burner (2) and a cooking battery holder (1) according to one of claims 1-6. 8. Gas cooking point (10) according to claim 7, furthermore with a control element (3) for the gas burner (2), where the gas burner (2), the cooking battery support (1 ) and the control element (3) are arranged on a cooking surface (9) or on a cooking hob (9), and the cooking battery holder (1) is arranged in such a way that the frame strip ( 1A) vertical lies as thermal protection between the gas burner (2) and the control element (3). Gas cooking point (10) according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the gas burner (2) and the cooking battery holder (1) are arranged in such a way that the frame strip (1A) vertical is closer to the gas burner (2) than the remaining frame slats (1B, 1C, 1D). Gas cooktop (10) according to one of claims 7-9, characterized in that the gas cooktop (10) is designed as a cooking surface or hob with several gas burners (2, 8 , 16), cooking battery supports (1, 17, 18) and control elements (13, 14, 15), where the vertical frame strips (1A, 17A, 18A) of the different cooking battery supports ( 1, 17, 18) form a thermal protection screen around a control panel (21) with control elements (13, 14, 15) of the cooking surface or cooking hob.