Barbeque grill grate
CA 2277597 A1 · Owner: Empire Comfort Systems, Inc. · Inventors: Rigney, Donald P.; Maschhoff, Lloyd
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A cooking grate for a grill, such as a barbecue grill, is comprised of a plurality of generally elongate rail members assembled in a nesting relationship to form a first and second cooking surface. The first cooking surface is formed by a generally flat surface on each of said rail members, said flat surfaces abutting to form a substantially smooth surface, with a plurality of elongate apertures therein through which juices produced by cooking food may flow. Each rail member has a gutter along its length which underlies approximately half of each of said apertures for catching a portion of the juices and diverting it from the heat source below. The grate may be reversed and the gutters form …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed July 8, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 8, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 8, 2021.
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