US3307531A - Burner heat distributor - Google Patents

Description

March 7, 1967 HI OMPSO 3,307,531

BURNER HEAT DISTRIBUTOR Filed June 11, 1965 INVENTOR.

621 55 A/Wm BY fi m/infra United States, Patent 3,307,531 BURNER HEAT DISTRIBUTOR Clyde H. Thompson, 1127 E. th St., Casper. Wyo. 82601 Filed June 11, 1965, Ser. No. 463,107 3 Claims. (Cl. 126-215) being adjustable for use with stove burners of differing diameters, has an imperforate cooking vessel supporting surface, which prevents boiled-over food or other material from a cooking vessel from falling directly upon the burner, whereby the burner is kept clean, and otherwise needed cleaning operations are reduced to a minimum.

A further object of the invention is the provision, in a device of the character indicated above, of a pendant peripheral rim of the plate, which prevents the travel, inwardly toward the burner, of boiled-over material falling upon the device, the said rim having a reduced cross section lower edge which serves to drip the material, from the rim onto a confined area of the stove surrounding the burner.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a top plan view of a device of the invention;

FIGURE 2 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIGURE 3 is a vertical transverse section taken on the lines 33 of FIGURE 1; and

FIGURE 4 is an enlarged perspective view of an adjustable foot of the device.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the illustrated device comprises a flat imperforate circular plate 10, of suitable heat conductive material, such as iron or aluminum alloy, having a fiat upper surface 12, and a flat undersurface 14, parallel to the upper surface 12. The diameter of the plate 10 is greater than the diameter of and stove burner with which the device is to be used.

At its peripheral edge 16, which is normal to the plane of the plate 10, the plate is downwardly enlarged in cross section, to provide a pendant rim 18. The rim 18 is of downwardly tapering cross section and terminated in a sharp lower edge 20, the inner side of the rim 18 being concavely and downwardly curved, as indicated at 22, to the peripheral edge 16, to define the sharp lower edge 20.

The plate 10 of the said device is adapted to be supported, in vertically spaced relationship to the top of a stove burner, by means of equally circumferentially spaced feet 24, secured to the underside of the plate 10, the feet 24 being adapted to rest, either upon the top of the stove surrounding the burner, or upon the upper surface of a burner well, depressed in the top of the stove. In order that the device may be used conveniently with burner and burner wells of differing diam- "ice eters, the feet 24 are made radially adjustable, relative to the plate 10.

The illustrated feet 24, as shown in detail in FIGURE 4, preferably of one-piece construction, are of reclining L-shape, and comprise horizontally elongated arms 26, of downwardly opening channel shape, and relatively short pendant vertical legs 28, on the outer ends of the arms 26, the latter having squared flat lower ends 30, adapted to rest upon a stove top or upon the upper surface of a burner well.

The arms 26 have webs 32, having flat upper surfaces 34, adapted to bear against the flat undersurface 14 of the plate 10, inwardly of the plate rim 18, and pendant longitudinal flanges 36 extending along the side edges of the web 32. Centered longitudinal closed slots 38 are formed in the webs 32, to pass clamping screws 40.

The screws 40 have enlarged bevelled heads 42, which are rotatably seated in accommodating recesses 44, formed in the plate 10, flush with the upper surface of the plate, the heads 42 being formed with exposed screwdriver slots 46. Nuts 48 are provided on the screws 40, to be turned up against the undersurfaces of the webs 32 of the arms 26, for clamping the feet 24, in various radially adjusted positions, relative to the periphery of the plate 10, to accommodate stove burners of different diameters. The nuts 48 are non-rotatably confined between the flanges 36 of the arms 26.

As shown in FIGURE 3, the legs 28 of the feet 24 are long enough to reach downwardly below the rim 18 of the plate 10, to support the plate 10 in upwardly spaced relationship to a stove surface S upon which the device is placed, in order that air may circulate freely to the burner, and across the undersurface 14 of the plate 10, so as to assure more even heating of the plate and of the cooking vessel resting thereon.

Any fluid material resulting from a cooking operation, involving the device of the invention, and flowing onto the plate 10, to its periphery, is prevented by the rim 18, from flowing beneath the plate 10, and onto the burner, and this material is caused to flow down around the rim 18, and drip from its sharp lower edge 20, so as to be deposited onto a stove surface in a narrow circular area thereof.

What is claimed is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a circular flat plate having a peripheral edge, feet secured to the underside of the plate inwardly of said peripheral edge and reaching downwardly below the plate, said plate being imperforate, said feet comprising relatively long horizontal arms bearing against the undersurface of the plate and relatively short downwardly extending legs on the arms, said arms being formed with longitudinal slots, screws engaged in the plate and extending downwardly through the slots, and nuts on the lower ends of the screws engaged beneath said arms.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a circular fiat plate having a peripheral edge, feet secured to the underside of the plate inwardly of said peripheral edge and reaching downwardly below the plate, said plate being imperforate, said feet comprising horizontal arms bearing against the undersurface of the plate, said arms being formed with longitudinal slots, screws engaged in the plate and extending downwardly through the slots, and nuts on the lower ends of the screws, said arms having pendant parallel spaced flanges between which said nuts are engaged.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a circular flat plate having a peripheral edge, feet secured to the underside of the plate inwardly of said peripheral edge and reaching downwardly below the plate, said plate being imperforate, said feet comprising horizontal arms bearing against the undersurface of the plate, said arms being formed with longitudinal slots, screws engaged in the plate and extending downwardly through the slots, and nuts on the lower ends of the screws and pendant legs on the arms, said arms having Webs formed with said s10ts,'and pendant flanges along the side edges of the webs, said nuts being non-rotatably engaged between the flanges.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 10 DONLEY J. STOCKING, Primary Examiner.

FREDERICK L. MATTESON, JR., Examiner. E. G. FAVORS, Assistant Examiner.

Claims (1)

1. A DEVICE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, COMPRISING A CIRCULAR FLAT PLATE HAVING A PERIPHERAL EDGE, FEET SECURED TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE PLATE INWARDLY OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE AND REACHING DOWNWARDLY BELOW THE PLATE, SAID PLATE BEING IMPERFORATE, SAID FEET COMPRISING RELATIVELY LONG HORIZONTAL ARMS BEARING AGAINST THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE PLATE AND RELATIVELY SHORT DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING LEGS ON THE ARMS, SAID ARMS BEING FORMED WITH LONGITUDINAL SLOTS, SCREWS ENGAGED IN THE PLATE AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY THROUGH THE SLOTS, AND NUTS ON THE LOWER ENDS OF THE SCREWS ENGAGED BENEATH SAID ARMS.

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