Patent ID: 8445820
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A cooking appliance for a food product, which comprises a pair of cooking plates made of thermally conductive material, which are heated electrically and articulated to one another, each of these plates having a cooking surface, the two cooking surfaces being able to be moved towards one another by folding one plate against the other to cook a food product clamped between them, the so-called dorsal face opposite the cooking surface of each of these plates exhibiting a depression, with a flat base of extended surface, wherein a heating module in the form of a flat cassette, of minimal thickness, complementary to that of said depression, is fitted and fixed removably inside this depression, this module being provided with a shielded electric resistor for heating said cooking plate when it is supplied with electric current, and having a “sandwich” structure comprising, from the base of the depression to the exterior, at least the following components: (a) a heat-distribution sheet made of material having good thermal conductivity; (b) said shielded electric resistor; and (c) a sheet for plating the resistor against the heat-distribution sheet, these components being detachably assembled together; wherein said module further comprises an insulating layer located on an opposite side of said resistor from said associated cooking plate, and said associated cooking plate is cast-metal.