Patent Application
20230380624
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The disclosure relates to grilling devices and more particularly pertains to a new grilling device for cooking a food item on a cooking grill. The device includes a sheet that has dimensions sufficient to place the sheet on a cooking grill. The sheet is comprised of a thermally conductive material to facilitate the sheet to be heated by the cooking grill. Additionally, the sheet is corrugated to facilitate grease from the food item to drain away from the food item while the food item is being cooked.
The prior art relates to grilling devices including a rolled sheet that is formed with saw-tooth corrugation. The prior art discloses a disposable broiling tray that is formed with saw-tooth corrugation. The prior art discloses a cooking foil sheet that is comprised of a foil upper layer, a dry bibulous center layer and an imperforate lower layer. The prior art discloses a flexible foil that is rolled into a sheet which can be torn into a desired length and formed into a pan for cooking. The prior art discloses a cooking sheet that is corrugated and which has an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined in each of the corrugations. The prior art disclose a cooking liner that is corrugated and which has a perforated section and a non-perforated section.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a sheet that is comprised of a thermally conductive material thereby facilitating the sheet to be heated by a cooking grill when the sheet is positioned on the cooking grill. The sheet is comprised of a rigid material thereby facilitating the sheet to support a food item. Additionally, the sheet is corrugated thereby facilitating the sheet to drain grease from the food item to drip below the food item.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The sheet 12 has a top surface 18, a bottom surface 20 and a perimeter edge 22 extending between the top surface 18 and the bottom surface 20, and the perimeter edge 22 has a first lateral side 24, a second lateral side 26, a front side 28 and a back side 30. The sheet 12 has plurality of bends 32 each extending between the front side 28 and the back side 30 and the plurality of bends 32 are distributed between the first lateral side 24 and the second lateral side 26. Additionally, an apex 34 of each of the bends 32 may be curved or flattened.
The plurality of bends 32 includes a set of first bends 36 and a set of second bends 38. Each of the first bends 36 is directed upwardly and each of the second bends 38 is directed downwardly. Furthermore, the first bends 36 and the second bends 38 alternate between the first lateral side 24 and the second lateral side 26. Each of the first lateral side 24, the second lateral side 26, the front side 28 and the back side 30 has a length that is less than 18.0 inches thereby facilitating the sheet 12 to fit on a typical cooking grill 14. Additionally, the sheet 12 has a thickness between the top surface 18 and the bottom surface 20 that is less than 0.08 mm thereby facilitating the sheet 12 to be crumpled into a ball to be discarded when the food item 16 has finished cooking. The rigid material of which the sheet 12 is constructed may be aluminum foil to facilitate the sheet 12 to be crumpled by a person of average strength. Furthermore, the sheet 12 may be packaged with a plurality of the sheets 12 in a box that can be purchased in a retail environment.
In use, the sheet 12 is placed on the cooking grill 14 such that the sheet 12 is heated when the cooking grill 14 is turned on. In this way the sheet 12 facilitates a clean surface upon which the food item 16 can be cooked in the cooking grill 14. The food item 16 is placed on the sheet 12 to facilitate the food item 16 to be cooked. Additionally, the corrugation of the sheet 12 facilitates grease to drain away from the food item 16 as the food item 16 is being cooked. The food item 16 is removed from the sheet 12 and the sheet 12 is crumpled into a ball and discarded when the food item 16 is cooked.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
