FR2485910A1 - IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR COOKING MISCELLANEOUS FOODS - Google Patents

Abstract

PERFECTED APPLIANCE FOR COOKING VARIOUS FOODS USED IN PARTICULAR DIRECTLY ON THE SITE WHERE THE FOOD SHOULD BE CONSUMED. THIS APPLIANCE IS OF THE TYPE CONSTITUTES ESSENTIALLY OF A BASE 1 AND A HEATING PLATE 2 KEEPED SPACED FROM THE SAID BASE BY THE INTERMEDIATE OF UPRIGHTS 3, 4 PREFERENCE TEAMS OF HANDLES 5, 6. IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT: THAT THE HEATING PLATE 1 HAS ON ITS LOWER FACE AN OPEN INTERNAL CAVITY 7 IN WHICH HEATING MEANS ARE AVAILABLE (ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE) 8 CAVITY OF WHICH THE WALLS 9 ALLOW TO REFLECT THE HEAT EMITTED IN THE DIRECTION OF BASE 1; - THE VERTICAL UPRIGHTS 3, 4 CONNECTING THE BASE 1 TO THE HEATING PLATE 2 ARE: ARRANGED FACE TO FACE, AND PARTIALLY CLOSED THE VOLUME INCLUDED BETWEEN THE BASE 1 AND THE HEATING PLATE 2 SO AS TO FORM AN OPEN CHANNEL, PRESENT A SURFACE INTERNAL 10, 11 REFLECTIVE.

Description

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR COOKING MISCELLANEOUS FOODS.

  The present invention relates to an improvement

  appliances for cooking various foods and

  more particularly to portable cooking appliances des-

  intended to be used directly on the place (table) where the

  cooked foods must be consumed.

  In the remainder of the description, the invention will be described

  for such a type of portable device but it is obvious that the invention also relates to similar devices

  made for use in a fixed position.

  Nowadays, many types of cooking appliances can be transported for direct use on

  the place where the cooked food should be consumed.

  In general, such devices are constructed so

  to fulfill a specific function for the purpose of

  particular situation. Thus, there have been known for a long time hotplates consist essentially of a base containing a heat source (candle, electrical resistance, ...) and a hot plate on which the food-cooked beforehand is disposed. Such devices can maintain the temperature but in no case can they be used to

  cook properly.

  Portable stoves are also known, such as

  eg fondue, raclette stoves that allow them

  good to cook food directly.

  There are also portable grills used for meat or fish. Such grills are generally composed of two heating surfaces arranged facing each other, articulated with respect to each other and

  between which the product to be grilled is trapped.

  If these devices are satisfactory when used for the specific application for which they are intended, they however offer as main disadvantage of lack of versatility. Moreover, in the case of portable grills, the main disadvantage lies in the release of smoke that occurs when the fat that

  contains the food falling on the hob.

  There are certainly transformable devices that allow

  put to use them either as a plate warmer or as -2- grils, but, to this day, it has never been proposed to achieve a portable cooking device, simple, effective that offers the possibility of simultaneously grilling , dishes cooked and / or grilled by means of various utensils (stoves, hand grill ...).

  Now, we have found, and this is the subject of the pre-

  invention is a simple, versatile device that allows

fulfill all these objectives.

  In general, the invention therefore relates to an

  improved for the cooking of various foods, used

  sand particularly directly on the site (table) or must

  to be consumed food, apparatus of the type consisting essen-

  of a base and a hotplate

  paced from said base by means of uprights.equipped preferably handles and it is characterized by the fact:

  - that the hotplate has on its underside

  a cavity in which the heating means are arranged.

  fage (electrical resistance), a cavity whose walls allow

  try to reflect the heat emitted towards the base,

  - that the uprights connecting the base to the

  heating elements are: arranged face to face, partially close the volume between the base and the heating plate so as to form an open channel,

  25. have a reflective inner surface.

  Advantageously, the base, the heating plate and the amounts connecting the two aforementioned elements consist of separable elements assembled together by all

  appropriate means such as for example by means of bolts.

  In addition, the assembly formed preferably has an oval configuration, the two uprights being disposed at the ends of the major axis of this oval, the inner surface of these uprights preferably being flat and perpendicular to this major longitudinal axis. In this way, the open channel formed by the heating plate, the base and its two uprights has a section

  in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped.

  The base will preferably be hollow and a grid, for example

  ply made of stamped aluminum is rappo: tee on said base.

  This grid preferably comprises two solid vertical returns -3 intended to come to cover the vertical uprights in order to

  form the reflective inner surface.

  As a material which makes it possible to produce a device

  To the invention, preference will be given to: - steel coated with an epoxy coating to form the base, - aluminum for the heating plate and the uprights

  the surface of the hotplate being covered by

  an anti-adhesive coating based on polytetrafluoroethyl-

lene (PTFE).

  All these elements will preferably be produced by

  the internal cavity of the heating plate containing

  the resistors being formed during this operation. The re-

  heaters will be mounted conventionally

  the and of course a connection socket to the electrical circuit

  is intended for their alimer.tation.

  Finally, handles will be provided on the vertical uprights.

  ticals, these handles being able to form a whole with the said

tives.

  The invention and the advantages it brings will be

  for better understood thanks to the example of realization given

  hereinafter indicative but not limiting and who is it-

  illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which: - Figure l is a perspective view partially

  bursting of a cooking appliance made in accordance with the

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the principal elements constituting such an apparatus before they are assembled; FIG. 3 is a section along the long axis AA and FIG. BB axis showing in more detail the underside of a hotplate of an appa-_

according to the invention.

  If we refer to the attached diagrams, the device

  ble according to the invention for cooking various foods

  consists essentially of a base 1, a hotplate

  2 and vertical uprights 3, 4 connecting said base 1 to the plate 2. These uprights 3, 4 form handles, 6 facilitating the handling of the device. The mounting of these elements is made in a conventional manner, for example using bolts which have been schematized.

simply in Figure 2.

  According to the invention, the heating plate 2

  an open internal cavity in which electrical resistances 8 are arranged, the connection of which to a supply circuit is obtained by means of a plug shown. These electrical resistances 8 are arranged near the lower face of the plate 2. Moreover, the walls 9 of the cavity have a height such that the heat

  emitted by the resistors 8 is reflected in the direction of

key 1.

  The vertical uprights 3, 4 are arranged face to face and partially close the volume between the base 1 and the

  plate 2 so as to form a channel open on two sides.

  These two vertical uprights have an internal surface 10,

reflective.

  In the embodiment illustrated by the

  nexés, the device has an oval configuration and the uprights 3, 4 are arranged at the ends of the major axis of this oval. The cavity 7 provided under the heating plate

  2 has a rectangular shape configuration.

  The base 1 is in this hollow embodiment and sup-

  carries on its two lateral edges a grid 12 made of embossed aluminum whose ends 13, 14 are curved

  upwards and come to cover the faces 10, 11 of the

  5, 6 to form a reflective surface.

  Such a grid 12 has a plurality of orifices 15 and

  defines with the base 1 an internal vacuum 16.

  The heating plate 2 is preferably based on aluminum.

  Melted nium coated with a layer of PTFE and made by mulling.

  It has, in this known manner, parts in relief 17 and

  edges slightly higher than these raised parts.

  Of course, the base 1 has on its underside feet 18 for isolating the entire worktop,

for example a table.

  Compared to the previous apparatus, the invention makes it possible

  with one device, to have several options for

  its without any need for adaptation or transformation.

  Indeed, it is possible, using the hotplate

  fante 2 to grill meat or fish directly. In the case where such meat or fish have a tendency to give off smoke, it is possible to first grasp the food on the cooking plate 2 and, having done so, dispose of

  the food in a conventional hand-held grill and finish the cooking

  sound in the volume between the base 1 and the plate 17.

  The appliance can also be used directly to cook food simultaneously on the cooking plate 2 and in the space between the base 1 and the said plate 2. This is

  particularly interesting when you want to cook

  multaneously several dishes or cook a dish and maintain

hot a second dish.

  In addition to its practical interest, such a device also has

  the advantage of being of a simple design, very efficient the heat provided by the electric resistors, which in

  the previously described embodiment had a

  1400 watts, which not only warms the

  plate 2 but also to keep inside the cavity

  té-understood between said plate and the base 1, a temperature

  suitable for cooking almost all foods

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Claims (4)

  1 / Advanced apparatus for cooking dietary foods   towards, usable especially directly on the site o must   to be consumed food, apparatus of the type consisting essen-   basically a base (1) and a heating plate (2) held spaced from said base (1) by means of uprights   (3), (4) optionally equipped with handles (5), (6) rised by the fact:   - that the heating plate (1) has on its underside   an open internal cavity (7) in which   installed heating means (electrical resistance) (8) cavi-   whose walls (9) make it possible to reflect the heat   placing in the direction of the base (1), - that the uprights (3), (4) connecting the base (1) to the heating plate (2) are:   face to face, and partially close the door.   lume between the base (1) and the hotplate   (2) so as to form an open channel,   have an internal surface (10), (11) reflecting health.   2 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the base (1), the heating plate (2) and the uprights (3), (4) connecting the two aforementioned elements consist of separable elements assembled together to others by all   conventional means such as for example by means of bolts.   3 / Apparatus according to one of claims 1 and 2, carac-   characterized in that it has an oval configuration, the two uprights (3), (4) being disposed at the ends of the major axis of this oval, the inner surface (10), (11) of these uprights (3 ), (4) being flat and perpendicular to this large longitudinal axis.   4 / Apparatus according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized   characterized in that the base (1) is hollow and a grid (12) for example made of embossed aluminum is reported on said base (1).   / Apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that the grid (12) comprises two returns (13), (14) - 7 - vertical intended to cover the vertical uprights   (3), (4) to form the reflective inner surface.   DEPOSITOR: Company called "VIVALP" REPRESENTATIVE: Cabinet Michel LAURENT