EP1344982B1

EP1344982B1 - Cooking plate

Info

Publication number: EP1344982B1
Application number: EP02079982A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Silvano Fumagalli
Original assignee: Candy SpA
Current assignee: Candy SpA
Priority date: 2002-02-26
Filing date: 2002-11-28
Publication date: 2006-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 2022-11-28
Also published as: ITMI20020094U1; EP1344982A1; ITMI20020094V0

Description

The present invention concerns a cooking plate. Cooking plates currently existing generally have a rectangular shape and they usually comprise three, four or five burners.
The burners generally have a standard arrangement and, in the case of cooking plates with four burners, they are located at the four corners of the quadrilateral that delimits the cooking plate. In the case of cooking plate with five burners, the fifth burner is generally located at the centre, whereas in the case of cooking plate with three burners, the three burners are arranged as a triangle with the base facing the back side of the cooking plate.
With such an arrangement of the burners cooking plates do not have any surfaces free and devoted to laying cooking utensils or other and, in modern kitchens of small houses, this requires to provide additional lateral working surfaces, for instance belonging to pieces of furniture that are located laterally to the one in which the cooking plate is located.
This arrangement has another inconvenience that is the difficult accessibility of the back burners in the case the cooking utensils are already positioned on the front ones. That could cause burns or scalds to the user due to the accidental spilling of the cooking utensils on the front burners when one wants to light a back burner.
US-A-1 568 188 discloses a cooking plate according to the preamble of claim 1.
In view of the state of the art described, scope of the present invention is to present a cooking plate with an easy use.
According to the present invention, such scope is attained by means of a cooking plate as defined in claim 1.
Owing to the present invention it is possible to provide a cooking plate that allows to approach all the burners of the plate in a simple and easy way.
The characteristics and the advantages of the present invention will become evident from the detailed description of an embodiment thereof, that is illustrated as a non-limiting example in the enclosed drawing of Figure 1 that is a top view of a cooking plate according to the invention.
With reference to Figure 1 a cooking plate 1 according to the invention that has a four burners 2-5 arranged according to the vertexes of a trapeze, preferably an isosceles trapeze 100 is shown. In particular in said isosceles trapeze 100 the angles A comprised between the greater base 101 and the respective sides 102, 103 are both comprised between 75° and 77°. The burners 2-5 generally have different sizes, also meant as power, so as to adapt to the various sizes of the utensil that is positioned on them.
The smaller burners 2 and 3 are arranged along the base 101 of the trapeze, in proximity of the front side 7 of the cooking plate 1, that is the side that in the arrangement of the cooking plate 1 on a cabinet is nearest the user during the normal operations of cooking of foods. The burners 2 and 3 are also arranged in a way adjacent to the sides 6 and 60 of the cooking plate 1.
The larger burners 4 and 5 are arranged in proximity of the back side 8 of the cooking plate 1, opposite to the front side 7.
All the burners 2-5 are provided with grids 10 with different sizes for the arrangement of the utensils on the burners.
The arrangement of the burners 2-5 allows an ergonomic and safe use of the utensils without any diametrical superimposition of the same.
The aforesaid trapeze geometry of the burners 2-5 allows to obtain a zone 20 between the two small burners 2 and 3 that can be used in various ways as for instance a working surface for utensils such as cutlery, etc. As an alternative in the zone 20 an electric plate 21 can be inserted, as shown in Figure 1, to be used especially for slow cooking of food or in order to keep warm foods that have already been cooked.
The cooking plate 1 comprises the control devices 22 of the burners arranged between the base 101 of the trapeze 100 and the front side 7 of the cooking plate 1, as shown in Figure 1. This front arrangement of the controls 22 allows an easy use on behalf of the user as compared with cooking plates in which the controls are located laterally to the burners. In addition the arrangement of the controls 22 distant from the heat sources prevents their overheating.
In order to allow to position the burners 2 and 3 as far as possible from the controls and to gain the space D' for the electric plate 21 it is necessary that the distance C' between the centre of the burners 2 and 3 and the fore ends of the relative grid is greater than the distance B' between the same centre and the back end of the grid. The same is true for the distances C and B.

Claims

Cooking plate provided with at least four burners (2-5), said at least four burners (2-5) being arranged according to the veitexes of a trapeze (100) whose greater base (201) is in turn located in proximity of the front side (7) of the cooking plate (1), said four burners (2-5) having different sizes and the two smaller burners (2, 3) lay on said greater base (101) of the trapeze (100), characterized by comprising control devices (22) of the burners arranged between the greater base (101) of the trapeze (100) and the front side (7) of' the cooking plate
Cooking plate according to claim 1, characterised in that said trapeze (100) is an isosceles trapeze.
Cooking plate according to claim 2, characterised in that the angles (A) formed by the greater base (101) and the sides (102, 103) of the isosceles trapeze (100) are comprised between 75° and 77°.
Cooking plate according to claim 1, characterised in that it comprises an electric plate (21) arranged between said two smaller burners (21, 3).
Cooking plate according to claim 1, characterised in that it comprises a zone (20) suitable to the support of utensils and arranged between said two smaller burners (2, 3)
Cooking plate according to claim 4, characterised in that the smaller burners comprise a relative grid and in that the distance (C') between the said centre of the smaller burners (2, the 3) and the fore ends of the relative grid (10) is greater than the distance (B ') between the same centre and the back end of the grid.
Cooking plate according to claim 4, characterised in that the smaller burners comprise a relative grid and in that the distance (c) between the said centre of the smaller burners (2,3) and the side of the relative grid (10) that is closer to said electric plate (21) is greater than the distance (b) between the same centre and the opposite side of the grid