Bowles Fluidics Corporation

Michael Lombardo

Fred Heil

A gas barbecue grill has a housing, a grate supported by the housing for supporting food for cooking, and a gas burner for supplying heat. The gas burner includes at least one fluidic burner element centrally located and projecting a heating flame aligned substantially along the centerline and downward. A heat distribution member having an axis aligned with the centerline has at least a pair of downwardly diverging planar elements with the burner projecting a flame along the centerline which heats the center of the distribution member. The heat distribution member has first and second groups of apertures, the first group of apertures being proximate one end of the heat distribution member and spaced from the center of each of said planar elements. A second group of apertures formed proximate the end of heat distribution member opposite the burner end and spaced from the center of the distribution member and in each of the planar elements. The ratio of the total area of said apertures in the first group to the total surface area of the distribution member is greater than the ratio of the total surface area of the apertures in the second group to the total surface area of the distribution member. One or more additional non-oscillating gas jets may be provided.

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Forest Hill, MD, United States of America

Michael Lombardo