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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1986
Michael N Tsisios, London, GB;
Robert D Smith, Cheshunt, GB;
Thorn EMI Appliances Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A grilling arrangement comprises a compartment including two tungsten-halogen lamps mounted adjacent the top of the compartment behind a screen of infra-red-transmissive material. The lamps are emissive of infra-red radiation, which grills food supported on a shelf in the compartment. Each lamp has a reflector, which is preferably parabolic in cross-section, to reflect infra-red radiation from the lamps onto the grilling surface. A control arrangement is also provided to impart oscillatory movement to the reflectors and lamps, so that infra-red radiation from the lamps is swept across the grilling surface, thereby achieving a substantially uniform distribution of intensity of infra-red radiation over the surface over a given length of time.