William J O'Brien

Stephen J McClean

A griller having a substantially horizontally extending grill member to support food while being grilled, the grill member consisting of alternating bars and slots the bars being made of aluminium, aluminium alloy or a substance having similar heat transmitting properties there being arranged under the grill member an elongated electric heating element that is accommodated within a groove formed on the underside of the grill member, whereby fats and liquids emerging from food being cooked on the grill member are prevented from coming into contact with the electric heating element, an electric plug socket connected to the electric heating element directly and without intervention of a thermostat, the heating element and the grill member being constructed and arranged so that heat from the heating element is distributed more or less evenly over the surface of the grill member, the grill member being removeably supported on a container that in use underlies the grill member and acts to catch fat and liquids from the food being grilled, there being a circumferential gap between an outer wall of the container and the periphery of the grill member the width of the gap being such as to permit a flow of air into the space beneath the grill member to control the temperature of the heating element and grill member and prevent thermal run away.

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Vaucluse NSW, Australia

William J O'Brien