Patent ID: 8590526
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
1. A gas stove installed to a counter top of a kitchen, comprising: a. a housing of said gas stove comprising a removable top flat plate that includes a top surface and a central opening in a large dimension; b. a removable burner comprising a plurality of gas ports, wherein each of said gas ports being an expanding section of opening including an ascending interior top surface towards upward and outward, a smaller inlet and larger outlet; c. a removable heat transfer regulating apparatus, comprising an inner hollow shell and cooking utensil supports which are identical, said inner hollow shell being a closed ascending wall having a larger top edge that surrounds a larger top opening and a smaller bottom edge that surrounds a smaller bottom opening, a plurality of openings serving as air passages penetrate through lower and upper parts of said inner hollow shell, wherein said air passages are more densely located to said lower part of said inner hollow shell as compared with said air passages which are less densely located to said upper part of said inner hollow shell, said inner hollow shell which is detachably affixed to said cooking utensil supports surrounds said gas ports of said burner wherein said top edge of said inner hollow shell is positioned to be higher than a top surface of said burner, each of said cooking utensil supports including a upward post having a bottom end and a top end, a transverse upward member having a top and a transverse descending member, said upward post at said top end is connected to said transverse upward member wherein said transverse upward member at said top is connected to said transverse descending member thereby forming a flat top of said cooking utensil support and said bottom end of said upward post is served as a bottom end of said cooking utensil support, said flat tops of the respective cooking utensil supports are positioned to be higher than said top edge of said inner hollow shell; and d. said top edge of said inner hollow shell is positioned inside of said central opening of said removable top flat plate to align with said top surface of said removable top flat plate, so that said removable top flat plate conceals said inner hollow shell thereby causing said stove to have a flat top surface wherein a visual effect of said flat top surface of said stove is consistent with a visual effect of a flat top surface of said counter top, and said cooking utensil supports are circumferentially and radially spaced apart to surround said inner hollow shell wherein said flat tops of the respective cooking utensil supports penetrate through said central opening of said removable top flat plate, said inner hollow shell focusing heat on a cooking utensil which is supported by said cooking utensil supports and positioned above said burner and one of said transverse upward members serving as a heat shield to prevent heating a handle of said cooking utensil.