Stoves and furnaces inventions 12/08

20080314374 - Cooking appliance, especially top-mounted cooking appliance, and method for controlling a cooking appliance: A cooking appliance, especially a top-mounted cooking appliance including a muffle that defines a cooking space and is provided with a muffle access opening; a door pivotably mounted to the muffle for movement into and our of a covering relation with the access opening; a driving device in operative engagement... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080314376 - Mobile barbecue grill: A mobile barbecue grill includes a base, a first handle, an upper lid, a holding member, a first bracing rack, a second bracing rack and a pair of wheels. The base aims to hold a cooking grid. The first handle is located on an outer side of the base. The... Agent: Alan D. Kaurath Kamrath & Associates

20080314378 - Heat exchanger: A furnace or other heat exchanger application for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems having condensate control. Specifically, the disclosure includes condensate control for secondary heat exchangers for use with high efficiency furnaces, particularly for small tonnage systems, such as residential or unitary systems. The application provides condensate management... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20080314375 - Condensate pan with condensate trap: A condensate pan for a condensing furnace includes a main chamber to receive exhaust gases, a condensate trap separate from the main chamber and internal the condensate pan and a main drain.... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20080314377 - Absorber of solar vacuum tube: Absorber of solar vacuum tube, inserted into a glass tube all along its length together with not less than one header, led through a sealed end of the tube is accomplished as a one-part or multiple element of material with good thermal diffusivity, preferentially of a plate, with a coat... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080308087 - Stove combined with a food heating cover: A device for heating cooking utensils includes a stove, a food heating cover coupled with the stove, and a cover position mechanism for selectively covering and uncovering the stove by the food heating cover. The food heating cover is enabled to heat the cooking utensils when covering the stove, and... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080308089 - Cooking device: The present invention relates to a cooking device (1) comprising a burner group (3), provided to be easily emplaced into the housing (15) without any problems after being detached and taken apart for maintenance, providing complete burning thereby preventing the formation of poisonous gases.... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20080308088 - Low profile exhaust hood: A low profile exhaust hood has a high inlet and a high aspect ratio of horizontal to vertical. A sloping wall of the recess guides hot plumes upwardly to the inlet. The inlet is sized to provide an exhaust face velocity that is at least as high as a highest... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080308090 - Solar concentrator: A window unit comprising at least one transparent pane, a frame 130 around the perimeter of the at least one transparent pane, at least one rotatable linear concave mirror 110 extending at least partially across the frame, and at least one energy conversion device 120 extending at least partially across... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080308091 - Single axis solar tracking system: A solar tracking system with a torque tube supporting solar panels. Columns support the system and have bearings for rotation of the torque tube. A drive is coupled to the torque tube and is driven by a gearbox, such as a worm gear assembly, for rotating the array of solar... Agent: Dennis F Armijo

20080308092 - Solar collector with integrated heat storage: The present invention relates to a solar collector having an integrated heat storage. Such a solar collector comprises a housing which comprises a bottom plate and a transparent cap, wherein between an involute mirror and the transparent cap a storage tank for the storage of water is provided. The solar... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20080308093 - Solar energy collection device for tiled roofs, and a method for mounting the same: The device part of the embodiment over the tiles (14) with wide openings(15) which mainly involves, openings (15) in which are houses both irregular bodies (1-13), of transparent glass, hermetically closed and vacuum filled, which establish surface continuity through the upper face with the rest of the tile (14) and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080308094 - Trough reflectors for solar energy collectors: A trough reflector for solar energy collection is constructed from transverse ribs which support a reflective surface. Side edge support rails mounted on ends of the ribs support linear edges of the reflective surface. The edge support rails have a channel-like construction with an inner flange member which is in... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080302353 - Removable flame heat regulating apparatus including an inner hollow shell and an outer wall for a burner of a gas stove: A flame heat regulating apparatus for a cooktop of a gas stove, comprising an inner hollow shell and an outer wall which are both placed onto the stove cooktop. The shell further positioned to surround a gas burner is arcuate in shape, having a smaller sized bottom side and a... Agent: Yizhong Sun

20080302351 - Gas-fired portable heater: A portable gas fired heater includes a combustion chamber having an air inlet and an air outlet. A low DC voltage (optionally AC voltage) fan or blower directs air through the combustion chamber so that the air is heated. Preferably, a vortex generator is located between the fan or blower... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080302352 - Exhaust hood and method of mounting same: An exhaust hood (10) is disclosed having a housing (K1) with a front wall (12), a rear wall (13), two oppositely disposed side walls (14), a top wall (15), and an open bottom (16). The top wall has a pair of key-hole shaped mounting holes (19) therein positioned in an... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080302354 - Solar collector: The invention is a solar powered heat exchanger (10) comprising a solar collector (12), a heat accumulator (14), and a heat exchanger (16). The solar collector is operatively coupled to the heat accumulator (14) via a supply line (18) and a recirculation line (20). The heat accumulator (14) is in... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20080302355 - Solar air conditioning device: A solar air conditioning device (100) comprises a solar collector assembly (30), an inlet assembly (10) at an entrance of the solar collector assembly, and an outlet assembly (50) at an exit of the solar collector assembly. The solar collector assembly includes a heat-absorbing set (31) and a transparent panel... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080302356 - Light-collecting base-body structure: A base body comprises two frames to put lens and solar cells. The working process is simple and the weight and the cost of the base body is reduced.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080302357 - Solar photovoltaic collector hybrid: The present invention discloses a system for a hybrid solar energy collector comprising a CIGS photovoltaic energy collector, the photovoltaic energy collector being thermally coupled to an energy absorbing working fluid casing for flowing heat out to heat sink The solar radiation is trapped in the photovoltaic collector, generating electrical... Agent: Walt Froloff

20080295823 - Direct vent fireplace installation: A direct vent fireplace installation assembly is provided that includes a furniture unit having an enlarged receptacle well above the ground, and a direct vent fireplace unit positioned in the receptacle of the furniture unit. The fireplace unit has a firebox contained in an outer housing, a burner assembly in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080295824 - Woodburner insert: Wood kindling arrangement for quickly kindling of solid fuel in wood burning stove, leading to a reduction of the discharge of polluted chimney gas particle. The wood kindling unit is preferably meant for wood burning stove with closed combustion chamber. When the invention is used you gain a standardized and... Agent: Akc Patents

20080295825 - Focal width correcting lens system for concentrating sunlight: o