Patent ID: 6100507
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: A47J,H05B

Abstract:
A table top model hot plate or warming plate appliance comprising a vitreous ceramic top (1) mounted on a body (2), including peripheral side walls and enclosing one or more heating elements (18, 19) underneath the vitreous ceramic top (1), the side walls (100) of the appliance being upright, and terminating in formations, supporting and positioning edges of said vitreous ceramic top which has substantially circular to oval outlines, wherein the side walls (100) of the appliance have circular to oval outlines in plan view, substantially following the outlines of the vitreous ceramic top (1) except for a hollow protrusion (101) forming a substantially planar control panel surface which on one side merges substantially tangentially with the circular to oval outlines of the said side walls (100) and on the other side terminates in a corner-forming wall (13), returning to meet the side walls having circular to oval outlines, the hollow protrusion (101) forming a box-like cavity accommodating control apparatus (115) for the heating elements (18, 19) and the control panel carrying one or more operating and/or control buttons (96), touch pads, knobs and/or dials and optionally one or more pilot lights (17).