FR2654497A1 - HIGH PERFORMANCE ENERGY PLATE APPLICABLE PREFERABLY ON A GAS BURNER OR SIMILAR. - Google Patents

Abstract

This energy plate (1) according to the invention, which can be applied above a conventional gas burner (3), is structured in such a way as to allow the fumes or vapors produced by the flames to be directed towards the center. (7) of the cooking zone and in such a way that all the effects of combustion can be used and especially the high temperature of the fumes or vapors produced. This plate (1) produced according to the characteristics of the present invention mainly prevents, during the cooking phase, that the food may undergo direct contact with the flames and that a loss of yield may occur and, therefore, allows 'obtain cooking with excellent dietary food value.

Description

The present invention relates to a high efficiency energy plate,

  can be applied preferably on a gas burner or the like, for cooking

  of food and / or the uniform warming of a superimposed body.

  In the known art, the cooking of food and / or the heating of a body placed on a gas burner in the conventional kitchen starts by means of the direct action of the flames under the container or by means of the interposition of 'a classic plate of

diffusion of heat.

  In some cases that often occur, in which the burner is placed under a grid that supports the pot containing food, and / or the body to be heated, the flames that are produced will lick directly the surface of the container, which requires verification during the cooking phase with two disadvantages: the part of the container that has contact with the flames will burn the food at any point and, moreover, the fumes or vapors of the combustion are dispersed with all their heat load. It is obvious that this will produce a series of subsequent disadvantages, among which: the part of burnt foods and other parts still undergoing cooking will take a bad taste but above all there will be an alteration of the food molecules with the possibility

relative harm to health.

  To overcome these drawbacks, a product in the form of

  a conventional heat diffusion plate that is applied to the top of the burner.

  In this case, the food is cooked without direct contact with the flames but there is such a loss of yield of the heat produced that it makes more limited the use of such protection, which is performed exclusively to function as screen between the burner and the container, and does not use fumes or hot vapors from the combustion

  scatter in the ambient air with all their heat load.

  The present invention proposes to eliminate most of these disadvantages by providing a high efficiency energy plate capable of

  to store all the heat produced by the combustion at the burner.

  In the context of such a general purpose, the plate according to the present invention has the particular function of channeling and completely using the fumes or vapors at high temperature produced by the combustion by directing them in the central zone of cooking.

and / or warming.

  A further advantage provided by the present invention lies in the fact that the energetic plate object does not cause any loss of yield during the cooking process of food, as occurs with the known conventional plate, and allows to obtain a cooking with a excellent dietary food value The simple structural feature of the plate according to the invention also allows that it is produced with a relatively limited cost and depending on the size and the most conformation

  appropriate type of burner and container used.

  The present invention, in fact, relates to a high efficiency energy plate, applicable to gas burners or the like, which is remarkable mainly in that it is constituted by a top cooking plane with a central opening of which a series of grooves or crenellations arranged radially relative to it, the upper plane of this plate being secured to a peripheral edge adapted to contain and return the fumes or vapors produced below by the flames and channel them towards the opening central by the crenellations or radial grooves, the lower plane of the heating containerposantsur this plate determining a preferential path for the front of the flames to the central opening, then to the radial face and

  finally leading to an evacuation to the outside.

  The present invention will be better understood from the following description of a

  non-limiting embodiment of an energy plate shown in the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of the energy plate according to the present invention; Figure 2 is a schematic view of the plate, in vertical section, taken along the line A-A of Figure 1, and while it is placed above a conventional burner;

  Figure 3 is a schematic perspective view of the plate in question.

  As shown in these figures, the high efficiency energy plate 1 according to the present invention, as a whole and in this example, is in a conformation substantially similar to a disk which is adapted to be applied to a flat grid 2 a conventional domestic stove in correspondence with a lower burner 3 The plate 1 comprises a top bearing plane 4 whose surface is interspersed with grooves or crenellated slots 5, arranged in the radial direction to the peripheral edge 6, and arising around a central opening 7 which runs through

vertically this plate 1.

  The edge or the edge 6 is extended downwards by a rim forming a flange 8 which, in this case, bears on the plane of the grid 2 If a plane 9 ', hypothetically circular and horizontal such as the bottom of a pot, is placed on the upper surface of the plate 1, between the burner and the outside of the plate, it is formed a course for the fumes or vapors produced by the flames, made even more obvious by

  the use of an auxiliary diaphragm 10 placed between the grid and the plate 1.

  In fact, the fumes and vapors produced by the flames penetrate firstly into the chamber or the chamber 9 of the plate 1 and, from there, through the opening 7, then the slots or grooves 5 which are covered by the plane 9 ' or bottom of the pot and so form

  channels which convey these vapors outwards in correspondence with the border 6.

  In this embodiment, the fumes or vapors produced by the combustion come to lick the central part of the bottom of the kettle and the radial face to be able, consequently, to disperse outside so that their high temperature is

  found completely used to carry the plate 1 to its maximum yield.

  In fact, this plate according to the invention has a dual function namely, on the one hand, a mass that allows it to incorporate, appropriately according to the type of burner, the heat produced directly by the flames, and this without loss of this heat and, on the other hand, a conformation such that it completely uses the fumes or vapors produced by the combustion, and this by conveying them in the first place towards the center of the

  baking and thence radially outward.

  The food contained in the pot is not directly exposed to flames and does not absorb all the heat capacity, so that the dietary food value mentioned above is respected and the process is made optimal.

Cooking.

  The foregoing description relates to a preferred embodiment but

  It is obvious that the plate according to the present invention can be made in any shape and dimension and according to any type of design, with one or more central openings, have a variable amount and arrangement of the grooves, be of any material and for what use, all these variants can be made without

  depart from the scope of the present invention.

  Advantageously, the plate can be applied in a fixed or removable manner, either directly on the burner and on the grid, so as to satisfy

  the various positioning requirements.

  According to another possible variant, a plate according to the invention can be applied and fixed directly on the bottom of the container used so as to form a body

unique with this one.

Claims (4)

  1. Energy plate (1) with high efficiency, applicable on a gas burner or the like (3), characterized in that it consists of a hob (4) with central opening (7) from which a series of grooves or slots (5) arranged   radially on the upper surface of this plane (4).   2. Energy plate (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the hob (4) can be integral with a peripheral edge (8) adapted to contain and sendervers inside this plate fumes or vapors produced by flames   in order to channel them to the central cooking zone.   3. Energy plate (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that the lower plane (9) or bottom of a warming vessel, resting on the hob (4), determines a preferred path of fumes or vapors, channeled first to the central opening (7) and from there to the radial grooves (5) to finally evacuate outwards.   4. Energy plate according to claim 3, characterized in that a possible variant is to adapt this plate to form a single body with the base or bottom (9 ') of a cooking vessel and / or food warming , this plate (1)   can be applied and fixed on this bottom (9).