Patent ID: 8887626

Claim:
An apparatus for heating a kettle, the apparatus comprising: a first metal housing having vertical side walls, a bottom wall positioned at the bottom of the vertical side walls, transverse to the vertical side walls, extending to and attached to the vertical side walls, a top member positioned at the top of the vertical side walls, hingedly attached to one of the vertical side walls, and having the kettle associated with the top member closing the first metal housing in a manner wherein the first metal housing forms a combustion compartment into which the kettle is at least partially inserted; and a second metal housing below the first metal housing, forming a burner compartment below the combustion compartment and sharing the bottom wall of the first metal housing, with a gas burner extending from the second metal housing through the bottom wall of the first metal housing below the kettle, and a blower in the second metal housing communicating air to flammable gas in the gas burner so that the flammable gas contacts the kettle with the kettle heated by radiant conductive and convection heating within the combustion compartment.