Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With drip segregating – receiving or directing
Patent
1996-11-12
1999-03-09
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With drip segregating, receiving or directing
99400, 99444, A47J 3700, A47J 3707, A47J 3712
Patent
active
058786570
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for cooking food, in particular a grilling or baking device of a type having a heating unit for heating the air, preferably a grate, and hollow sections through which a coolant flows and which are arranged on two different levels above the heating unit and are horizontally offset from each other, wherein channels for draining the juices from the food being cooked are formed on the upper faces of the hollow sections on at least one of the levels.
In known devices of this type, for example in grilling devices, heated air flows directly to the lower face of the grate and through its members to the food being cooked. However, juices from the food, especially fat, may drip down. This is especially disadvantageous when the device heating the air includes a glowing nest or glowing rods, since in this case the juices from the food, in particular the fat, will scorch and the residue of combustion carried by the heated air can contaminate the food being cooked.
DE-C-156 208 proposes a grilling device having two rows of grate rods arranged on two different levels above the heating system, such that the dripping fat is collected by the members on the lower grate and channeled to a container for collection.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to overcome these disadvantages and to construct a device of the aforementioned type which would ensure that the grilling process takes place substantially unimpededly and that, in addition, the juices and the fat from the cooked food will not scorch, especially in the area of the glowing nest or the heating zone, as the case may be.
This is accomplished by the inventive device by forming depressions in the hollow sections and sloping the bottom of the depressions downwardly relative to the horizontal direction, while the hollow sections themselves are oriented substantially horizontally.
According to theses advantageous features, the juices dripping from the food are collected and channeled away by parts having a certain shape, for example parts formed as hollow sections through which a coolant flows, to ensure that the juices from the food will neither be able to reach the glowing nest nor become overheated.
In addition, better drainage for the juices can also be provided by inclining the hollow sections with respect to the horizontal direction or by inclining only the bottom of the drainage channels formed in the hollow sections while keeping the hollow sections themselves in a substantially horizontal direction. In the inventive device, the hollow sections arranged in the upper level may also include lengthwise side members pointing downwardly at an angle, with at least the longitudinal edges of the side members being located above the channels in the lower hollow sections and the free edges of the side members having a suitable profile, such as needle-shaped extensions or serrations, formed thereon.
This construction provides drip edges in the region of the upper hollow sections for safely collecting the juices dripping from the food in the region of the lower hollow sections.
In this embodiment, the longitudinal sections of the upper hollow sections in cross-sectional view advantageously form an angle between 10.degree. and 90.degree. with the horizontal direction.
This feature, too, aids in providing distinct drip edges or drip points. In addition, the cooling of the hollow sections can be improved by connecting at least one end of the hollow sections to an air collecting space connected to an intake opening, possibly via a fan, for supplying fresh air.
This feature allows a sufficiently large amount of air for cooling the hollow sections to be circulated through the hollow sections, with the fan being located between the air intake opening and the air collecting space so that it will be exposed to only cold air.
The hollow sections may also be connected to air collecting spaces at both end faces, with the air collecting space connected to the upper ends of the hollow sections including
Feiereisen Henry M.
Simone Timothy F.
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