Stoves and furnaces inventions 01/07

20070017499 - Portable gas stove assembly: A portable gas stove assembly includes a gas stove and a stove stand, wherein the gas stove has a fuel tank for storing fuel, a flow regulating valve for regulating the flow of the fuel, a fuel nozzle for guiding the fuel flowing from the flow regulating valve, a burner... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070017500 - Barbecue cooker with an adjustable split grill assembly: A barbecue cooker has a stand, a body and a grill assembly. The stand has a top. The body is attached to the top of the stand. The grill assembly is adjustably mounted on the body and has at least one column and at least two grids. The at least... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070017501 - Gas stove burner: This gas saving stove-head is designed to use in cooking at food shop or general household including for the other purposes. It could be applicable to all kinds of stove based on gaseous fuel by using engineering principle to accelerate speed of gas airflow mostly injected from the mouth of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070017502 - Fluid heating apparatus: Disclosed is a fluid heating apparatus including a halogen lamp 23, and a tubular structure 26 surrounding the heating lamp and having a fluid inlet 24 and a fluid outlet 25. The tubular structure 26 comprises plural straight pipes 26a arrayed circumferentially around the halogen lamp 26, with adjacent straight... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070017503 - Irradiating apparatus: An irradiating apparatus includes a support member and a reflector supported by the support member to define a concave light energy reflector surface. A light source of radiating energy is disposed generally at the source focal point of the reflector. The support member has a passage for cooling air to... Agent: John R. Hoffman

20070012306 - Handheld device for fast electrical ignition of a charcoal grill: A device comprising an improved electrical hot-air gun for fast ignition of the charcoal-bed of a barbeque charcoal grill for home use having a very short distance between the front of the hot-air gun and the electrical heating wire of the heating assembly and a very high outlet temperature. The... Agent: Lynn E. Barber

20070012307 - Conveyor oven apparatus and method: An oven according to some embodiments includes an oven chamber in which food is cooked, a heating element, a fan, a sensor for sensing the temperature of the oven chamber, a remote input device, and a controller configured to receive a signal from the remote input device and to change... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070012310 - Gas control knob for gas stove: A gas control knob for a gas stove includes a main body having a gas chamber connected between a gas inlet hole and a gas outlet hole, a throttling cock rotatably mounted in the main body to regulate a gas flow rate between the gas inlet hole and the gas... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070012309 - Gas control knob that is operated manually or automatically: A gas control knob includes a valve body, a valve seat mounted on the valve body, a control lever movably mounted in the valve seat and movable by a pressing action to regulate a gas flow rate of the valve body, a fixing bracket mounted on the valve body, a... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070012308 - Gas control knob that produces vibration and sound during rotation: A gas control knob includes a valve body, a valve cap, a rotation lever, a cam, and a spring. Thus, when the rotation lever is rotated to regulate the gas flow rate, the engaging tooth of the cam is axially and reciprocally movable on the toothed face of the track... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070012311 - Solar tracking device with springs: A solar tracking device is disclosed. In particular, a solar tracking device for overcoming the disadvantages of conventional solar energy system utilizing motors and to lower electricity consumption and decrease cost is provided. The device includes a solar module or solar collector supported by two springs under both ends, and... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070012312 - Structure for supporting energy conversion modules and solar energy collection system: A structure (26) for supporting an array (22) of solar panels (24) in a solar energy collection system (20) includes a support assembly (42) formed from a rigid subassembly (44). The subassembly (44) includes an elongated truss (68), a base (46) coupled to the truss (68) for attachment to a... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070012313 - Solar-system yielding solar thermal energy management: A Solar-SYSTEM using recycled Glass Jars and recycled Metal Cans is disclosed to construct and operate a Solar Energy Collector and Storage System. This Solar-SYSTEM captures and stores Solar Energy from the SUN, for immediate use, or the Solar Energy can be stored for use at a later time. The... Agent: Thomas James Williams

20070012314 - Solar water heating system: A solar water heating system employs at least one solar heat collector having an upper manifold, a lower manifold, and at least one fluid passage between the upper and lower manifold. The upper and lower manifolds each are inclined, so that air within the manifolds travels to the manifolds upper... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070006863 - Portable, collapsible, folding charcoal grill: The present invention is a lightweight, collapsible, easy to use, compact, flat and portable charcoal grill for use in barbeque type cooking. Multiple hinges allow the grill to be folded into a flat mode for storage and transport. The grill has two carrying handles. It is made of steel that... Agent: Howard M Cohn Patent Attorney LLC

20070006864 - Overheat steam cooker: An overheat steam cooker includes a cooker cabinet having a heating housing forming therein a food accommodating space; an overheated steam generator generating overheated steam to be supplied into the heating housing; a water supplying device including a water injecting part provided to the cooker cabinet, through which water is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070006865 - Self-cleaning oven: A self-cleaning, gas-fired tunnel oven is provided. One embodiment of the oven provides a self-cleaning, gas-fired tunnel oven for cooking food products. The oven includes a control system that regulates oven temperature during a pyrolitic, self-cleaning procedure for incinerating contaminants that accumulate inside; a burner for cooking food products and... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070006866 - Damper bracket for gas grill lids: The gas grill lid is supported by the damper bracket in selected open angles having notches or cutouts to be used for selected openings using a screw, pin or rivot mounted on the side of the gas grills.... Agent: Joseph O'neill

20070006867 - Vehicle tailgate cooking apparatus and method: Disclosed is a cooking apparatus capable of insertion into a vehicle tailgate cutout used for cooking food. In embodiments, the invention relates to vehicle tailgates having a cutout specially adapted for receiving the cooking apparatus inserts disclosed herein and vehicles with vehicle tailgates disclosed herein. The invention also relates to... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20070006868 - Outdoor stove burner control: A valve control arrangement for an outdoor stove burner (10). The burner has a valve housing and a valve body (40) rotatably supported in the valve housing. A fuel hose (70) is connected to the valve body (40) for communicating fuel from a fuel supply (90) through the valve body... Agent: Don W. Bulson, Esq. Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070006869 - Barbeque grill rotisserie drive: A rotisserie drive for a grill includes a support for supporting a first end of a spit and a drive transmission including a drive socket for rotatably driving a second end of a spit. The drive transmission is driven by a driving element, such as a motor. The drive transmission... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070006870 - Heat generating packaging material: A heat generating packaging material is disclosed for packaging of temperature sensitive materials, the heat generating packaging material militating against damage to the heat sensitive material by maintaining a temperature in the packaging within a predetermined range.... Agent: Fraser Martin & Miller LLC

20070006871 - Arrangement for and method of selectably changing the temperature of a product: Radial pressure exerted against a deflectable sidewall of an outer container initiates a chemical reaction in which the temperature of a product in an inner cup is changed.... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070006872 - System for and method of making an arrangement for changing the temperature of a product: A modular product cup is mounted in an outer container of standardized dimensions in an arrangement for changing the temperature of the product in the cup. The cup can come from different product suppliers, each able to use its product cup in the arrangement to promote wide commercial acceptance.... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070006873 - Charcoal dispensing and storage cart: A storage and dispensing cart for receiving, storing, and dispensing charcoal briquettes includes a storage bin member, a storage compartment member and a screening assembly. The screening assembly is disposed within the storage bin member at a lower end to provide a continuous screening of the charcoal dust and small... Agent: Thomas J. Schab Law Offices Of Thomas J. Schab

20070006874 - Double interface heat transfer system and snow melting machines employing such a system: A process for snow melting but useful elsewhere, accomplished by an air/water interface and a water/snow interface. Water is sprayed into a stream of hot air, which is blown onto the snow. The small particles of water are intimately involved with the air molecules and the heat of the air... Agent: Alun L. Palmer, Patent Agent

20070000484 - Containers and packagings for regulating heat transfer: A food container includes an upper wall, a lower wall, and a side wall extending between the upper wall and the lower wall. At least one of the upper wall, the lower wall, and the side wall includes a plurality of microcapsules containing a phase change material. The phase change... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070000485 - Raised-level built-in cooking appliance: A raised-level built-in cooking appliance, such as a wall-mounted oven, has a muffle and a bottom-side muffle opening. The latter can be closed with a lowerable bottom door. A drive device produces a lifting movement of the bottom door. In order to determine the weight of a cooking item, the... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070000486 - Systems and methods for protective seating: A method for covering a fireplace hearth includes: lifting a hearth guard, said hearth guard comprising a frame having at least four inner surfaces including a first inner surface, a second inner surface, a third inner surface, and a fourth inner surface; and placing the hearth guard on a fireplace... Agent: Sami O. Malas

20070000487 - Method for manufacturing light emitting device: An object of the present invention to improve reliability of a light emitting device having a mixed layer including an organic compound and metal oxide without reducing productivity. The above object is solved in such a way that after forming the mixed layer including the organic compound and metal oxide,... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.