Food broiling apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR BROILING FOOD COMPRISING A CHAMBER DEFINING AN INTERNAL CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE BROILING COMPARTMENT HAVING AN OPEN UPPER END THROUGH WHICH THE FOOD MAY BE INTRODUCED INTO SAID COMPARTMENT, FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS MOUNTED WITHIN SAID CHAMBER, INCLUDING RACK MEANS ADAPTED TO UNDER-SUPPORT SAID FOOD IN A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL ATTITUDE, PANTOGRAPH LINKAGE MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID COMPARTMENT AND OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS AND ADAPTED TO MAINTAIN SAID RACK MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL THROUGHOUT MOVEMENT OF SAID SUPPORTING MEANS VERTICALLY WITHIN SAID COMPARMENT, CLOSURE MEANS MOUNTED ADJACENT THE OPEN UPPER END OF SAID CHAMBER AND ADAPTED TO BE MOVED SELECTIVELY TO CLOSED OVER AND OPEN THE SAME, MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID LINKAGE MEANS TO MOVE SAID FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS VERTICALLY BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LIMITS WITHIN SAID CHAMBER, MEANS INTERLINKING SAID ACTUATING MEANS AND SAID CLOSURE MEANS FOR OPERATIVELY MOVING THE LATTER TO CLOSE THE OPEN END OF SAID CHAMBER IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT OF SAID FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS TO ITS SAID LOWER LIMIT AND FOR CONVERSELY OPENING THE UPPER END OF SAID CHAMBER IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT OF SAID FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS TO ITS SAID UPPER LIMIT, SPRING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID ACTUATING MEANS FOR EFFECTIVELY ASSISTING THE OPENING MOVEMENT OF SAID CLOSURE MEANS AND POSITIONABLE BY SAID ACTUATING MEANS FOR RESILIENTLY HOLDING SAID CLOSURE MEANS CLOSED OVER THE OPEN END OF SAID CHAMBER, AND GAS FIRED INFRA-RED HEAT-PRODUCING MEANS MOUNTED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID CHAMBER AND ARRANGED ABOVE AND BELOW A HORIZONTAL PLANE COINCIDENT WITH SAID FOOD SUPPORTING MEANS WHEN THE LATTER IS IN ITS SAID LOWER LIMIT WHEREBY FOOD ON SAID RACK MEANS HAS ITS TOP, BOTTOM AND SIDE SURFACES SUBJECTED SUBSTANTIALLY DIRECTLY TO INFRA-RED RAYS FROM SAID HEATPRODUCING MEANS.