Cooking apparatus

US5653219A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Schott Glaswerke · DE

Inventors

• Martin Taplan · Rheinböllen, DE
• Stefan Hubert · Bubenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 20, 1996
• Grant date: Aug 5, 1997
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F24C3/085
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cooking apparatus includes at least one atmospheric gas burner and mutually adjacent first and second component assemblies. A frame holds the first and second component assemblies and the first component assembly includes a continuous glass-ceramic cook plate defining a planar surface and having a breakthrough formed therein for holding the gas burner in the cook plate. The cook plate has a boundary edge facing toward the second component assembly. The cook plate and the second component assembly conjointly define a gap therebetween at the boundary edge sufficiently wide to permit an adequate supply of primary air to pass from the ambient to below the cook plate and to the gas burner. A device is mounted in the gap for guiding the primary air into the gap. The device is attached seal-tight to at least one of the component assemblies and extends above the planar surface to prevent liquid on the planar surface from entering the frame through the gap.