Stoves and furnaces inventions 06/08

20080149087 - Tunnel oven: A tunnel oven including a case enclosing a baking chamber, the baking chamber having a lateral side, an oppositely lateral side, a longitudinal end, and an oppositely longitudinal end, the case having longitudinal and oppositely longitudinal end walls respectively bounding the baking chamber's longitudinal and oppositely longitudinal ends; the tunnel... Agent: Kenneth H. Jack

20080149089 - Chambered flame oven: An oven having a central cooking chamber defined in part by a housing and in visual communication with a flame-producing element. The cooking chamber has a door with a transparent portion providing visual inspection of the cooking chamber and a view of the flame produced by the flame producing element.... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, Pllc

20080149088 - Cooking utensil and cooking method: A cooking device (100) for supplying a steam S to a heating chamber (11) accommodating an object M to be heated, thereby heating the object M to be heated includes steam supplying means for supplying the steam (S) to the heating chamber (11), and air discharging means for discharging the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080149090 - Heating cooking appliance and burner system of the same: A heating cooking appliance and a burner system of the same are provided. A nozzle and a mixing tube can be stably fixed, and relative position of components can be aligned with high precision even if the heating cooking appliance has a narrow internal space. Thus, operational reliability of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080149092 - Heating cooking appliance: A heating cooking appliance is provided. The heating cooking appliance includes a case, a plate, a burner system, and a warm zone guide. The plate covers the top of the case. The burner system is provided below the plate and defines a heating region on the plate. The heating region... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080149091 - Infrared burner with exhaust gas flue: a burner bottom having an exhaust opening formed in a central area thereof, the burner bottom being disposed on the burner body oppositely from the burner top, with the open central area in registry with the exhaust opening and extending between the burner top and the burner bottom; and a... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080149093 - Heating cooking appliance and burner system thereof: A heating cooking appliance and a burner system thereof are provided. The height of the burner pot is reduced to facilitate product installation and reduce overall material and shipping costs. To increase user satisfaction with the product, a plurality of mixing tubes are extended in the same direction on one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080149086 - Door control mechanism: A door control mechanism which is attached near the hinge region of a door to bias the door to a closed orientation, and after a prescribed location, bias the door toward an open location to a sufficient degree such that the door is noticeably open. The door control mechanism in... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, Pllc

20080149094 - Burner base of gas stove: A burner base includes a base member, a gas tube and a nozzle. The burner base includes a base, a housing on the base with an opening at a top thereof, an indentation at a junction of the base and the housing, a hollow connection member on the housing, an... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080149095 - Solar collector element: A solar collector element including a wooden frame having longitudinal frame members and cross members which are fastened to a back panel is provided. The insulating material is inserted in the frame between the cross members. Located on top of the cross members and the insulating material is a pipe... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080141997 - Outdoor gas barbecue grill with an electric self-cleaning unit: An outdoor gas barbecue grill having an electric self-cleaning unit. The gas barbecue grill includes a grill housing, a grill cover, and a lower grill housing for receiving a gas burner and a cooking grate member. The underside of the cooking grate member includes a plurality of heating members made... Agent: Ezra Sutton Pa

20080141996 - Ventilation hood and cooktop safety system and method: A ventilating hood and cooktop system includes safety components to reduce or eliminate the possibility of a fire in the ventilating hood. The system provides elements for sensing the temperature over the cooktop. When the temperature reaches a first predetermined level, the ventilation fan speed is increased. The system includes... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080141998 - Maximum power point tracking system for the solar-supercapacitor power device and method using same: A maximum power point tracking system, named flash supercapacitor-solar power device, and method for a solar power system, which mainly adds a pulse-power supercapacitor for being operated in a dynamic equilibrium are disclosed. The duty ratio D is changed and the voltage variance of the supercapacitor is observed to determine... Agent: Ming-hsin Sun

20080141999 - Solar heating system and method of forming a panel assembly therefor: A solar heating system for mounting under a roof includes a panel formed of a sheet material, the panel having substantially opposed first and second surfaces and adapted for attachment under the roof with the first surface substantially facing the roof. A plurality of tubing fasteners extend outward from the... Agent: Justin R. Sauer, Esquire Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.a.

20080142000 - Optic spacing nubs: A solar energy system, including a front panel and at least two mirrors, is provided. The mirrors are used to focus light onto a photoconductive cell. In the preferred embodiment, three or more nubs are an integral part of at least one of the mirrors. When the system is assembled,... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.c.

20080135037 - Oven: The present invention relates to an improved oven configured to heat or cook an item and preferably pizzas. The oven includes at least one heating gas pathway for heating gas moving within the oven and an item supporting surface on which to place the item to be heated. This item... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080135038 - Safe grill with double vertical combustion chambers: e

20080135039 - Cooker: A high-moisture food cooker is provided that has an upright tubular food-receiving housing having a top edge, a sidewall, and a bottom edge. A fuel support is positioned in the housing and is vertically spaced from the bottom edge for receiving and supporting a carbonaceous fuel such as charcoal during... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.a.

20080135036 - Quick install/remove stove guard: A stove (or range) burner guard attached to the front of a gas or electrical stove (or range) by inserting the lower portion of the guard between the oven door handle and the oven door. The guard is secured by two identical holding devices, which are attached to the surface... Agent: Qi Dang

20080135040 - Hydrogen elimination and thermal energy generation in water-activated chemical heaters: Less hazardous methods for generating thermal energy for heating water, medical supplies or comestible products using improved flameless chemical heaters/flameless ration heaters by novel chemical or electrochemical means, each capable of suppressing the generation of hydrogen gas. Remote unit self-heating meals may be more rapidly heated by forming a reaction... Agent: Howard M. Ellis Simpson & Simpson, Pllc

20080135042 - Kitchen ventilation hood apparatus: The present invention provides a kitchen ventilation hood for ventilating the area above a cooking area and for exhausting air containing cooking by-products from a cooking station to an external environment through an exhaust duct while using a reduced airflow. The kitchen ventilation hood of the present invention is designed... Agent: Butler, Snow, O'mara, Stevens & Cannada Pllc

20080135041 - Kitchen ventilator system: A ventilator assembly for removing contaminants in cooking exhaust includes a hood portion having a hood plenum, and a duct portion in fluid communication with the hood portion, where the duct portion has an inside cross-sectional area that is less than half of an average inside cross-sectional area of the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080127963 - Four-stage high efficiency furnace: A four-stage furnace includes a gas flow control assembly operable to provide gas to the furnace at one of four firing rates. The furnace also includes a heat exchanger and an inducer blower for establishing a flow of combustion gas that generates a differential pressure across the heat exchanger. A... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080127962 - Pressure switch assembly for a furnace: A pressure switch assembly is used with a furnace controller having a first input and a second input. A first pressure switch is configured to actuate at a first combustion pressure level and is connected to the first input. A second pressure switch is configured to actuate at a second... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080127964 - Sun tracker: The basic idea of this invention is to use many small solar energy transfer units like solar cells, each of them is of the same size and installed on the surface of a spherical structure and toward a certain direction in a 3-D space, the position of each unit is... Agent: Jiahua Han

20080127965 - Method and apparatus for solar heating air in a forced draft heating system: A solar heating system for use in combination with a forced draft heating system for heating ventilation air of a building. The solar heating system includes a solar collector assembly for heating a liquid circulated through the assembly. The heated liquid is stored in an insulated storage tank where it... Agent: Maxey Law Offices, Pllc

20080127966 - Pressurized open loop freeze protected integral storage collector solar water-heating system: s

20080127967 - Use of brackets and rails in concentrating solar energy collectors: Examples and variations of apparatus and Methods for concentrating solar radiation are disclosed.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP