Patent ID: 6393970
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A grill device comprising:a horizontal single-piece lower grill unit having a rear side, and a front side, and provided with two lower cooking members; a horizontal upper grill unit in the form of two independent upper halves superposed on said lower grill unit so as to dispose each of said upper halves at a closed position with respect to said lower grill unit, each of said upper halves having a rear side and an upper cooking member which is registered with and which is electrically coupled to a respective one of said lower cooking members of said lower grill unit; a connecting unit interconnecting said rear sides of said lower grill unit and said upper halves in such a manner that each of said upper halves can be turned rearward from said closed position to an open position, in which a respective one of said upper halves is generally perpendicular to said lower grill unit; and a pair of control switches, each of which is operable so as to control actuation and cooking temperature of a respective one of said lower cooking members in said lower grill unit and said upper cooking member in a corresponding one of said upper halves; each of said lower cooking members further including a cooking plate having a cooking surface extending between said rear and front sides of said lower grill unit, a heating member disposed below said cooking plate, and a plurality of parallel uniformly spaced apart first and second grill ribs alternately disposed on said cooking surface, and extending between said front and rear sides of said lower grill unit, each of said first and second grill ribs having a top surface and a front end with a front edge terminating adjacent to said front side of said lower grill unit, said top surface of each of said first grill ribs having a flat portion extending horizontally from said rear side of said lower grill unit to a position adjacent to said front end of said first grill rib, and a curved portion extending curvedly and downwardly from said flat portion to said front edge of said first grill rib, said top surface of each of said second grill ribs having a flat portion extending horizontally from said rear side of said lower grill unit to a position adjacent to said front end of said second grill rib, and a curved portion extending curvedly and upwardly from said flat portion to said front edge of said second grill rib, said curved portions of said second ribs having an elevation higher than those of said flat portions of said first and second ribs so as to prevent a meat piece from sliding out of said lower grill unit when the meat piece is disposed on said flat portions of said first and second grill ribs.