JPH08210644A - Gas grille - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To check out a cooked state easily by installing a lighting device which demands for no specific power source nor ignition operation. CONSTITUTION: When cooking a cooked 12 loaded on a heating net 9 while using a heating chamber 7 of a grille, a lighting device is installed in the heating chamber 7 where the lighting device comprises a lamp 3 which emits light by a thermoelectromotive force of a thermocouple integrated body 2 and a reflecting board 4 which reflects the light of the lamp 3, etc., thereby eliminating the need for a specific power source and ignition operation by using the heat of a grille burner 13.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gas grill for heating cooked foods such as fish in a heating cabinet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a gas table stove equipped with a heating chamber capable of heating and cooking cooked foods such as fish, a transparent peep window in front of the heating chamber is used to check the cooking state in the heating chamber. You need to look inside.

[0003]

However, such a heating cabinet for the gas table stove is not provided with an illuminating device inside. Therefore, if the inside of the heating cabinet is dark and you cannot check it well, you may open and check the door itself that has a peep window on the front of the heating cabinet, but since it is done during cooking, there is a risk of burns etc. It is a danger. Alternatively, at the same time as pulling out the handle of the saucer containing the cooked food toward you, the door is flipped up, and the grill and saucer are pulled out while the cooked food is placed on the saucer for confirmation. In this case, the cooked state of the cooked product can be confirmed well, but the cooked product and the heating cabinet are cooled. Also, in the case of using an infrared burner for the burner for heating,
The inside of the heating chamber is slightly bright, but the illuminance is still weak and the color is red, so it is difficult to check the burning condition of cooked food such as fish through the viewing window. In order to illuminate the inside of the heating chamber, there is a large-sized gas oven or the like in which a lighting device protected by transparent glass or the like using a household commercial power source is provided inside the heating chamber. Adopting such a configuration for the grill of a gas table stove requires a significant increase in cost and space, and it is also troublesome that a commercial power source must be connected. It is an object of the present invention to solve the above problems and provide a gas grill that is inexpensive and can easily illuminate the inside of a heating cabinet.

[0004]

A first gas grill of the present invention which solves the above-mentioned problems, provides a heating chamber, a burner for heating a cooking product in the heating chamber, and a thermoelectromotive force generated by combustion heat of the burner. The gist of the present invention is to include a thermoelectric generating element that is generated and a light emitting body that is provided in the heating chamber and that emits light by the thermoelectromotive force of the thermoelectric generating element to illuminate the cooked product.

A second gas grill of the present invention is, in the first gas grill, characterized in that the reflector plate provided in the vicinity of the light emitter reflects the light of the light emitter to illuminate the cooked product.

A third gas grill of the present invention is the second gas grill according to the second gas grill, wherein the burner is provided above a grill on which the cooked product is placed, and the luminous body is provided below the grill. The main point is that.

A fourth gas grill of the present invention is characterized in that, in the third gas grill, the luminous body is provided at a position behind the grill.

[0008]

The first gas grill of the present invention having the above-mentioned structure is provided with a thermoelectric generator, and when cooking a cooked product, the luminous body is caused to emit light by utilizing the thermoelectromotive force generated from the thermoelectric generator. Since the thermoelectromotive force generated by the combustion heat of the burner is used, the light emitter automatically emits light when the burner is burned, that is, when the gas grill is used. The illuminator illuminates the cooked item in the heating cabinet. for that reason,
The inside of the heating cabinet, which was dark as it is, becomes bright, and not only can the cooked state of the cooked product (for example, the degree of grilling of the fish) be confirmed, but it can also be seen at a glance that cooking is in progress. Further, it is not necessary to connect a commercial power source from the outside or mount a battery.

In the second gas grill of the present invention, the light of the light-emitting body is reflected by the reflector provided near the light-emitting body to illuminate the cooked food. Therefore, the position where the light emitter is provided can be arbitrarily selected. In other words, even if the light emitting body is not provided above the cooked product, it is possible to illuminate the cooked product by directing the reflection plate toward the cooked product and adjusting the reflection direction of the light from the light emitting body. For example, even if a light-emitting body is provided in the corner of the heating cabinet or behind the cooked product, the cooked product can be sufficiently illuminated.

Similar to the second gas grill, the third gas grill reflects the light of the light emitter by a reflector provided in the vicinity of the light emitter to illuminate the cooked food. Moreover, the burner is provided above the grill on which the cooked food is placed, while the light-emitting body is provided below the grill.
Hard to receive heat from burner. Therefore, the light emitter can shield the heat from the burner with a simple configuration, and thus the overheat of the light emitter can be easily prevented. In addition, the light emitting body does not interfere when the cooked product is placed on the grill.

In the fourth gas grill, since the luminous body is provided behind the position of the grill, not only is it a hindrance when the cooked product is placed on the grill, but also the light of the luminous body is directly visible. It's hard to get in. Therefore, it is easy to confirm the cooking state of the cooked product. Similarly, the light-emitting body is less likely to receive heat from the burner and easily shields heat.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In order to further clarify the constitution and operation of the present invention described above, preferred embodiments of the gas grill of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in the front view and the side view of FIG. 1, the gas grill provided in the center of the table stove has a grill 9 on which a cooked product 12 is placed, and a grill 9 on which the grill 9 is placed is pulled forward. It is composed of a water tray 10 that is pulled out and drawn, a burner 13 that burns gas to heat the cooked product 12, a heating cabinet 7 that stores these. An opening / closing door 8 that opens and closes when the water tray 10 is pulled out is provided in the front center of the heating chamber 7, and the opening / closing door 8 is provided with a glass observation window 8a. The burners 13 are provided on both upper side surfaces of the heating chamber 7, and a heating plate 14 is also provided on the upper front side of the flame 13a. The cooking product 12 is irradiated with the combustion heat from the flame 13a of the burner 13 and the radiant heat from the hot plate 14 heated by the flame 13a.
Further, a hood 15 is provided at an upper end portion of the heating chamber 7 to form a flue 16, and the flue 16 is communicated with an exhaust port 17 which is opened above a rear portion of the table stove 1. In the heating chamber 7, a lamp 3 is provided in the lower rear part of the grill 9, and a mirror-finished stainless reflection plate 4 is provided above it.

As shown in FIG. 2, the flame 13a of the burner 13 faces the thermocouple assembly 2 from above, and the thermoelectromotive force generated by the combustion heat is supplied to the lamp 3. In the thermocouple integrated body 2, two kinds of different metal wires are alternately connected in series to form an assembly of thermocouple elements 2a, and the thermoelectromotive force of the plurality of thermocouple elements 2a which are connected is synthesized. It occurs. Therefore, for example, even when only one voltage of 20 to 30 mV can be obtained by one thermocouple element 2a,
1.5V as a whole by integrating 50 thermocouple elements 2a
The voltage of can be obtained. For this reason, a sufficient amount of light can be obtained even with the lamp 3 using only the thermocouple integrated body 2 as a power source.

When the cooked product 12 is placed on the grill 9 and the burner 13 is ignited to start cooking, the thermocouple assembly 2 has a flame 13a.
It is heated to generate thermoelectromotive force. The thermoelectromotive force is supplied to the lamp 3, and the lamp 3 emits light. The light from the lamp 3 is reflected by the reflecting plate 4 provided at the rear part of the heating chamber 7 and is emitted from the rear part of the heating chamber 7 toward the front.
In this way, the cooked product 12 placed on the grill 9 is illuminated brightly.

In the gas grill of the embodiment, when the burner 13 is burned for cooking, the thermoelectromotive force from the thermocouple assembly 2 generated by heating the burner 13 is used as it is to directly cause the lamp 3 to emit light. Therefore, the burner 13
When burning, that is, when using the gas grill, the lamp 3 automatically emits light to illuminate the cooked product 12. Therefore, the inside of the heating cabinet 7, which has been dark so far, becomes brighter, and the cooking state of the cooked product 12 (for example, the degree of grilling of fish).
Not only can you see well, but you can also see at a glance that cooking is in progress. In addition, it is convenient because it does not require a special power supply and does not require a lighting operation. Moreover,
Since the burner 13 is provided above the grill 9 and the lamp 3 is provided below and behind the grill 9, the lamp 3 is less likely to receive heat from the burner 13 and has a simple heat shield. is there. Further, not only is it a hindrance when the cooked product 12 is placed on the grill 9, but the light of the lamp 3 is hard to directly reach the eyes, so that the cooked state of the cooked product 12 can be easily confirmed.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described above.
The present invention is not limited to these examples, and it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various modes without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, lamp 3
Although it is provided at the lower rear position of the grill 9, it may be provided at the lower right or lower left of the front of the heating chamber 8. In either case, the mounting position of the reflector 4 is adjusted according to the position of the lamp 3 so that the cooked product 12 is sufficiently exposed to light.

[0017]

As described in detail above, the first gas grill of the present invention includes the thermoelectric generator and utilizes the thermoelectromotive force generated by the combustion heat of the burner. When it is on, the illuminator automatically emits light to illuminate the cooked item. Therefore, not only can the cooked state of the cooked product be checked well, but it can be seen at a glance that the cooked item is being cooked. In addition, it is not only necessary to connect a commercial power source from the outside or mount a battery, but also to operate the light-emitting body to emit light, which is convenient.

Further, in the second gas grill of the present invention, since the light of the light emitting body is reflected by the reflecting plate provided in the vicinity of the light emitting body to illuminate the cooked food, the position where the light emitting body is provided can be arbitrarily selected. For example, the light-emitting body can be provided even in the corner of the heating cabinet or at the rear of the cooked product, and the cooked product can be sufficiently illuminated. Therefore, lighting can be easily realized even in a heating cabinet with a limited space. Of course, no power supply is required either.

Further, in the third gas grill, the luminous body is
Since it is installed below the position of the grill, it is easy to block the heat from the burner. It is possible to easily prevent the light emitting body from overheating and realize inexpensive lighting. In addition, it is easy to use as it does not get in the way when the cooked food is placed on the grill.

Further, in the fourth gas grill, the luminous body is
Since it is located behind the position of the grill, it is not only a hindrance when placing the cooked product on the grill, but the light from the light emitter does not easily reach the eyes directly, so it is easy to check the cooking state of the cooked product. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a gas grill as an example.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an installation state of a thermocouple integrated body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 table stove 2 thermocouple integrated body 2a thermocouple element 3 lamp 4 reflector 7 heating cabinet 8 opening / closing door 8a viewing window 9 grilling net 10 water pan 13 burner 13a flame 14 hot plate 15 hood 16 flue 17 exhaust port

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A heating cabinet, a burner for heating a cooked food in the heating cabinet, a thermoelectric generator for generating thermoelectromotive force by combustion heat of the burner, and the thermoelectric generator provided in the heating cabinet. A gas grill comprising: a light-emitting body that emits light by the thermoelectromotive force of the element to illuminate the above-mentioned cooked product. 2. The gas grill according to claim 1, wherein the reflector plate provided in the vicinity of the luminous body reflects the light of the luminous body to illuminate the cooked food. 3. The gas grill according to claim 2, wherein the burner is provided at a position higher than a grill on which the cooked product is placed, and the luminous body is provided at a position lower than the grill. 4. The gas grill according to claim 3, wherein the luminous body is provided at a position behind the grill.