John C Rodgers

US Patent:

40820793, Apr 4, 1978

Filed:

Feb 23, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/660710

Inventors:

John Rodgers - Somerdale NJ

Assignee:

The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

F24J 302

US Classification:

126270

Abstract:

A portable oven and grill heated by solar energy, which is fabricated of lightweight materials. The oven box is formed of a shaped open diagonal box, the walls of which are heat insulators, finished on their inner surfaces with a black matte surface to absorb radiated heat. Vanes formed of insulated panels coated on their upper sides with aluminum foil to reflect radiation are mounted along the top of each edge of the oven box and oriented at an obtuse angle to the vertical inner walls of the oven box. A glass panel is mounted across the open face of the oven box, which is inclined at an angle to horizontal bottom base wall of the oven, to retain the heat inside the oven compartment. A slidable metal grill plate is mounted to the inner bottom base wall so as to slide part ways out of the rear side of the oven wall while remaining in contact with an aluminum plate loosely mounted to the inner base bottom wall so as to be heated, for grilling purposes, when so extended out of the side wall.