Stoves and furnaces inventions 05/07

20070119442 - Portable cooking device: A portable cooking device includes a cooking platform and a set of cooking tools. The cooking platform has two symmetrically disposed cooking chambers; a heating tube is disposed in each chamber. Two pivotal elements are provided between the two chambers and two handles are provided on a top surface of... Agent: Hdsl

20070119443 - Fryer: The fryer (1) comprising a rotatable cooking basket (4) and an oil container (3) has air heating means (19) and forced circulation means (13) of the heated air through the basket for at least partially cooking the food product contained in the basket.... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070119444 - Charcoal gas lighter: A charcoal gas lighter includes a fire basket for containing briquettes of charcoal, a mesh plate and a gas burner. The fire basket has a charcoal container having an upper end and a lower end, and the upper end and lower end are open. The mesh plate that is attached... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070119445 - Multifunctional cooking apparatus: A cooking apparatus includes a grill; a stove assembly adapted to mount on the grill and including a top opening, a heating block, a frame on the opening, a pan on the frame, a rotation adjustment knob connected to the heating block for adjusting its heating direction, and an open... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070119446 - Securing device for gas hob tap: A securing device, comprising a tap of a gas hob, intended to fix the tap both to a pipe feeding gas to the hob and to a usual portion of the hob in which a through hole is provided for receiving a shaft of the tap which co-operates with a... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20070119447 - Gas combustion apparatus: An outer case 10 accommodating a gas combustion apparatus main body comprises a case main body 2 opening forward, and a front cover 3 closing a front end opening of the case main body 2. A waterproof packing material 17 is sandwiched between inner peripheral flanges 20 and 39 formed... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070119448 - Range hood cleaning assembly: A range hood cleaning assembly utilizes compressed air to drive accumulated grease on range hood surfaces towards drainage holes. A plurality of air dispensers, preferably air hoses and directional nozzles, through which compressed air from at least one source of compressed air is blown, direct compressed air against surfaces within... Agent: Nexus Law Group LLP

20070113837 - Support with locking device for a barbecue grill cover: A support with a locking device for a barbecue grill cover has an upright base plate, a horizontal adjusting plate and a locking plate. The base plate has a channel defined in a lower end thereof and multiple parallel slots defined transversely in an upper end thereof. The adjusting plate... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070113838 - Gas-fired cooking griddle: A cooking griddle has a burner with a valve controlling gas flow to the burner. The valve is rotatable through an increased arc for controlling flow of gas to the burner. A knob for rotating the valve includes indicia for indicating a relative position of the valve.... Agent: Mark W. Croll Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070113839 - Air curtain-assisted exhaust method and device thereof: An air curtain-assisted exhaust method and a device thereof are provided. Air curtain generators are disposed on a worktable to enclose an encircled area in the worktable. A receiving hood is disposed above the worktable, wherein the vertical lower part of the outer edge of the receiving hood completely covers... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070107712 - Heating cooker: A heating cooker has an air-sucking opening (36) at one side of opposed edge portions of an inner wall (31) and an air-blowing opening (37) at the other side. Heated air sent into a heating room (3) from the blowing opening (37) flows along three inner walls (32, 4 (door),... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070107713 - Dual burner grill: A dual burner grill for cookers or foods on a tabletop includes first and second burner props including first and second top-open receptacles respectively, first and second burners fitted into the first and second top-open receptacles of the first burner prop respectively, and a burner selector for selecting the first... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070107714 - Hot air circulation furnace: A hot-air circulation furnace for heating a heating-target to a predetermined temperature by circulating hot air in the furnace, which is capable of performing continuous treatment while the size is small, or forming a heating zone and a soaking zone while using hot air at a fixed temperature. In the... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070107715 - Apparatus and method for a self-contained heating vessel: A method and apparatus for a self-contained heating vessel having enhanced efficiency and safety features. In one embodiment, the vessel includes a chamber for containing fuel; a burner assembly for burning the fuel; a fuel delivery mechanism that delivers the fuel from the chamber to the burner assembly; and a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070107716 - Modular lightweight fireplace: A lightweight, prefabricated, modular masonry fireplace. The firebox is pre-cast in modular sections of lightweight vermiculate concrete. A Rumford-style version of the fireplace is assembled from lightweight modular sections. The firebox is cast in modular sections. A central body section of the firebox is placed upon a base, and smoke... Agent: Law Office Of Rod D. Baker

20070107717 - Fire boosting apparatus: A fire boosting apparatus for use with a fireplace grate is disclosed. The fire boosting apparatus comprises a hollow body having a first open end and a second closed end distal from the first open end. The hollow body also has a top portion opposite a bottom portion and an... Agent: Tobin, Carberry, O'malley, Riley, Selinger, P.C.

20070107718 - Solar pump systems and related methods: Various embodiments of a fluid displacement system are disclosed. The system may include a reservoir containing a fluid in a liquid state and a first chamber hydraulically connected to the reservoir to receive the fluid from the reservoir. The first chamber may be configured to receive solar energy and configured... Agent: Claudio Filippone

20070101983 - Patio heater with directional control: The present invention provides a patio heater that has the capability of heating an area in a desired direction rather than heating all areas in all directions radially from the patio heater. The disclosed patio heater has a heat source that sits upon an elongated support member that spaces the... Agent: Ralph F. Manning, Esq. Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

20070101984 - Negative pressure conditioning device and forced air furnace employing same: A pneumatic signal conditioning device may have a first fluid path and a second fluid path. The first fluid path includes a first inlet and a first outlet, and is configured such that the first outlet provides a first conditioned signal representing a pressure at the first inlet. Similarly, the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070101985 - Kitchen range hood: A kitchen range hood having an improved connection as between the range hood body and the exhaust chamber housing. The range hood body has a top panel and defines an enclosure in which the exhaust chamber housing is mounted. The housing has a peripheral wall terminating in a flange at... Agent: Nexus Law Group LLP

20070101986 - Grease receptor: A grease collection unit including a drain tube that is removably connected to a drain pipe from an exhaust unit, a hollow housing that is connected to the drain tube, and a tray that slides in and out of the housing. Grease from an exhaust unit flows through the drain... Agent: Smith Moore LLP

20070101987 - Apparatuses and methods for balancing combustion air and exhaust gas for use with a direct-vent heater appliance: A combustion air and exhaust gas balancing system for use with a direct-vent heater appliance. The balancing system includes a combustion air valve in fluid communication with a combustion air duct and an exhaust gas valve in fluid communication with an exhaust gas duct. The combustion air valve is operatively... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070101988 - Fireaqua screen: The application of the Fireaqua Screen is for decoration only. When applied it adds a feature to the fireplace to look at just like adding a mantle. The application method is getting/ordering a screen that is the rite dimensions. When installing you will remove any doors you have and screw... Agent: Erin Bingham

20070101989 - Apparatus and method for the conversion of thermal energy sources including solar energy: Systems and methods to efficiently utilize thermal energy such as solar energy, geothermal energy, waste-heat energy, bio-mass combustion energy, or other equivalent forms of energy, convert the thermal energy to another useful form of energy, such as electricity or mechanical work using a thermodynamic cycle in which a working fluid... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20070095336 - Collapsible picnic grill: A take-apart picnic grill includes two hollow profiles to be disposed parallel to each other, which are connected by a plurality of rods to form a grilling surface. The hollow profiles are tubes, the diameter of one of which is sufficiently larger than the other to allow the tube with... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20070095337 - Folding camping stove: A folding camping stove. The folding camping stove may be formed in a clamshell configuration, having two clamshells that fold outward to expose at least two cooking surfaces. A pivot point is provided on the folding camping stove. Each of the clamshells folds about the same pivot point. A fuel... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (seattle Office)

20070095338 - Stove apparatus: A stove comprising a frame bounding an area to receive a burner, a heating cavity assembly mounted on the frame and having four side walls and a bottom wall having an opening therein, and a collar mounted in the heating cavity assembly around the opening. Front, rear, and side panels... Agent: U.s. Army Soldier Systems Center

20070095339 - Non-metallic vent cap: A vent assembly includes a base, an intake duct, an exhaust duct, and a cap assembly. The base includes a vertically oriented, outward facing primary surface and defines a duct aperture that extends through the outward facing primary surface. The base includes a metallic material. The intake duct is coupled... Agent: Faegre & Benson, LLP Patent Docketing

20070095340 - Solar collector: The invention relates to a solar collector comprising an absorber tube (13) supported by supports. Radiation-per-meable cladding tubes (15) are located between the supports and surround the absorber tube (13). Compensation pieces (17) are provided between the cladding tubes (15) due to the fact that the absorber tube (13) and... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20070095341 - Apparatus for rotation of a large body about an axis: Apparatus for the rotation of a large body, such as the base frame (11) of a solar energy collector having a large reflective dish (10), about an axis (12) utilizes a ring member or arcuate member (16). An actuator clamp (18) can be moved along the ring or arcuate member... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC