GB2212713A - Griller - Google Patents

Description

GRILLER - POOR IMALITY The present invention relates to a griller for

grilling foodstuffs.

meats and other griller available base on which a pair plates are mounted, there There are two well known types of on the market.

of horizontall being a lower plate fixed to the base and an upper plate which is hingedly Foodstuff tc be te tro-jen. down en s then '-fecte- Is arranged in tne upper One consists of a y arranged grilling attached to 2:r-4'-ed is p the.ipper p-a i 0 Gri 1 ' 4 n -. g hea-'nc, e-Lemen Such 2rillers satislactory. of fat melted ou 15 foodst-uffs during The other.,.,ell a pair, ef vertic food to be Rr the basae or the lower plate.

aced on t'-- --.o..er and top Cf i- A b.,; means of and lower plates.

There is, however, a problem in disposing of meat and other fat the grilling process. known form. of griller liv ex on a base with a space tending heating e between the ele illed can be inserted.

advantage that fact released during idly from the foodstuff have disadvantapes in be containing le-.ien-zs are arranged ments in These hav the cooking process will being cooked. Thev ing available for a of cooking operations than the drain away ran do, however, much more limited horizontal type One object of griller which has o which the esent invention is advantages of both the horLz:n-al bein2 easil and vertical types and which is capable o y and quickly converted from one form to the c-,her.

According to the present invention we propose a griller comprising a base, a first cooking plate mounted on zhe base and affixed thereto, a second cooking plate arranged substantially parallel to the first and hingedly attached in relation thereto, each cooking plate being associated with an electric heating element characterised in that the base is constructed in such a manner that the cooking plates can be supported either in a hor-J-, on--a attitude in which the apparatus functions as a griller or in a vertical attitude in ehie- -.-e functions as a vertical griller, means being provided zG allow for the drainage of fat from between the cooking plates in either attitude.

A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with referenmce to the accompanying Figure 1 horizontal for closed 1 drawings, in which: is an end elevation of a griller in a configuration with the cooking plates arranged grilling; Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 but with the plates arranged in a configuration for open grilling; and Figure 3 is a similar view but with the griller arranged for use as a vertical griller.

The griller shown in the drawings has a lower cooking plate 10 and an upper cooking plate 11. These are constructed on generally conventional lines and each contains an electric heating element.!he lower cok-ne plate 1C is fixed in relation to a base 12 whereas POOR GUALITY upper cooking plate is movable in relation to the base and is hingedly connected to it in such a manner that it may be raised to extend substantiallv vertically in relation to the lower cookin 5 not shown in the dra Figure 1 shows th i uraton for wha he e.Dokin2 p, a steak and cooking plate 10, b construction of the 'c z-e base 211. 1 7 in detail or the,,1 are we 11 know Adjacent the base 1 catches fat coming fron 20 process.

plate 10. T ings. cooking plates 10 and 11 in a nown as closed grilling in - and 11 are 2--ar,-,ped cn -:

eld LoRether bv means cl- -he s t-e P-----es n as oDen E-rilline- in distance above the 3 f 2r a n d 1 '1 the ow e r means of the catch 13 and the hinge joining the upper cooking plate features referred are not described t trazed in the drawing in detail in that in the art.

0 is arranged a drip tray 14 which the griller during the cooking arrangement shown in Figures 1 and feet 15 of which the two are iller in the horizontal 1-27, however, is subszan7.Ja-^,1 The base 12 in the 2 is supported on four and these support the gr configuration. The base L-shaped and has two pairs of additional feet 16 Figures 1 and 2 extend horizontally and are r.c-during horizonzal grilling.

w1 Inich in -4 r- Figure 3 shows the griller arranged for operation as a vertical grill and in this case the feet 16 rest on the surface 17 and serve to support the whole griller. in this configuration the drip tray 14 is relocated to catch fat flowing from between the cooking plates 10 and 11. In this configuration the fat drains away much more quickly and effectively than in the horizontal configuration Apart from. this the general operazion the arrangement of cooking plates 10 and 11 is effeczed in exactiv the same way as whenthe gril-er s used in the horizontal position.

-he advantages ef The above described griller has t conventional horizontal and vertical grillers in one apparatus.

POOR (WALITY t of the griller and -;P 1 G

Claims (1)

1. A griller comprising a base, a firs mounted on the base and affixed thereto, QUALITY z cooking plate a second cooking plate arranged substantially p 21el z. the.-i'rsz and aral hingedly attached in relation th being associated with an electri characzerised in that t,e base manner --atl ccok a;-icrizcn--a- a--zizuae --n a h 7 1 z 7 n -:: _ - z r i e r -r n a the úr-4-"-er as a means provided allow for the --J---a-Jnage --f f a -, from the ccoking plates in either altitude.

gri- le- as claimed iin c lairn. --....-ere in --'- e ta a firs-, por-ion having en undersid r) lu r a 11 f f e t t c s -: c i: c) r z -- h e o 1. i n,7 a s -4 n d a second -,2r- reto, each cooking plaze heating elemen-u constructed in such a - n, - C- c: - - ' - ' - - C- j 7,-, r 1 n norizon:a- a:z-4-,jde subs-zantiail-; at right portion and having on it feec to les to -cne L"r-Sport the cooking r, 1 or clair, -7 Including plates --n a substa 3, A griller as a separate drip tray capable of being iccated -uc catch fat flowing from the cooking plates in either a 4. A gri-ler constr in and as accompanying drawings.

ntially vertica claimed in clai ced and arranged as J Published 1989 & The Patent Office. State House, 66 71 High Holborn, Lond= WC1 R 4TP Pirther copies mky b-- obtained from The PILtent,0111ce- Was Branch. St Mary Cray, OrpingtoiL Kent BR5 3RD. Printed ky MiAtiplex techniques ltd. St Mary CrV. Kent. Con. 1/87