Stoves and furnaces inventions 01/09

20090025703 - Cooking stoves: A solid fuel, portable stove reduces smoke emissions and provides for a high temperature of combustion in a compact and easily manufacturable design. A main housing (11) comprises a combustion chamber (12) for containing fuel for combustion and a fan (50) configured to force air into the combustion chamber. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090025702 - Food ingredient holding and warming accessory for use with commercial griddles and charbroilers: A food ingredient holding accessory is disclosed that is attachable to a commercial griddle and able to contain butter, sauces, spices, etc, in a location that is readily accessible to a grill cook, does not taking up space on the cooking surface, avoids cooking splatter, and avoids heat damage to... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090025704 - Systems and methods for heating food: An oven for processing food comprising a housing assembly defining a vent opening. The vent opening allows at least a portion of fluid within the food heating chamber to flow out of an exhaust port.... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc.

20090025707 - Roasting apparatus: A cooking system having an oven including an interior heating space within an enclosure formed by a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall and a door for accessing the interior heating space wherein the oven further includes a radiant burner... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20090025705 - Apparatus for use with commercial griddles and charbroilers for improved safety, organization, and efficiency: An apparatus for use with a commercial grill to increase safety, efficiency, and organization. The apparatus includes a barrier extending upwardly from the cooking surface, and extending along the backsplash of the grill, the barrier having an accessory staging feature along a topmost portion, the topmost portion being at least... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090025706 - Pouch pack controlling temperature: Disclosed is a temperature control pouch pack including: a first pack which is filled with a predetermined reaction fluid and a reaction material that react with each other to cause a certain reaction while isolating one of the reaction fluid and the reaction material from the other one; and a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090025708 - Rolling motion tracking solar assembly: A tracking solar assembly includes a base, a first support and a second support. A solar panel is mountable the base. The first support may comprise a first curved, rolling surface fixed relative to the base. The first and second supports are engageable with the support surface. The first curved... Agent: Sunpower Corporation C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090025709 - Direct heated solar collector: The presented solar collector panel based on direct solar absorption, offers significantly higher efficiency over the traditional tube and fins designs. This is achieved by containing the heat exchanging fluid under the whole area of the absorber, this reducing its temperature, the main condition for the high efficiency. The heat... Agent: Bogdan Goczynski

20090025710 - Solar panel: A solar panel includes a circumferential upstanding rim defining a cavity therein. An insulating layer is mounted in the cavity and extends substantially completely across the cavity. A metal heat-exchanger sheet is overlaid onto the insulating layer and substantially entirely covers said insulating layer. A light-transmissive sheet overlays the heat... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20090025711 - Solar water vapor ejector: A water vapor ejector comprises a desiccant disposed in a communication path to a green house enclosure. In the day time and under sunlight exposure, the green house enclosure heats up, which dries the desiccant and generates a flow to the outside ambient through a pressure difference. The moisture trapped... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20090025712 - Structurally isolated thermal interface: In one embodiment, an assembly having bodies of different thermal expansion rates comprises a first body, a second body having a different thermal expansion rate than the first body, and a plurality of high conductivity members attached to both the first and second bodies. The high conductivity members are more... Agent: Evan Law Group LLC And The Boeing Company

20090020111 - Device for cooking pizzas and barbecues: A device for cooking pizzas and barbecues has a dome-shaped upper portion forming an oven and provided at its summit with an orifice. The wood or gas oven, collapsible and mobile, comprises both a smoke evacuating system for maintaining a high temperature therein and an ash recovery system. It is... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c.

20090020108 - Barbecue grill with multiple adjustable grids: A barbecue grill has a stand, a body, multiple grids and multiple adjusting devices. The body is attached to the top of the stand. The grids are adjustably mounted on the body. The adjusting devices are mounted respectively between the body and the grids to adjustably mount the grid on... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090020109 - Portable stove: An autonomous or battery powered foldable stove using dry biomass as combustion fuel is described herein. The device includes a base that contains an air flow generator having an inlet and an outlet. The outlet is in fluid communication trough a diffuser plate supporting the combustible to provide air thereto... Agent: Venable LLP

20090020110 - Detecting and reporting faults in solar thermal systems: A control system and a method are disclosed for detecting and reporting a variety of faults in solar thermal systems. Detected and reported faults include a low fluid condition in a closed loop of a solar thermal system in a drain-back configuration, a pressure drop in a closed of a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090013988 - Convection heating unit and heating cooker having the same: A heating cooker including a cooker body having a cooking chamber and a convection heating unit. The convection heating unit includes a convection heater to generate heat, a convection fan to forcibly move the heat generated from the convection heater into the cooking chamber, a convection motor to drive the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090013987 - Oven: The oven (1) which is the object of the present invention, comprises an outer cabinet (2) preferably in a rectangular prism shape, a cooking chamber (3) located inside this outer cabinet with spacing between, fan(s) (9) moving the air inside the oven, heater(s) (10) that heat the air, a fan... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20090013985 - Closed-loop control system for heating systems: An exemplary heating system can be configured with a control system configured for controlling the heating system to reduce inefficiencies, and/or allow the heating system to operate in a relatively optimum manner. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a closed-loop control system may be configured to control various portions of... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090013986 - Device with a door: A device with a door, in particular a door of a cooking appliance, supported for pivoting movement in a pivoting direction, for closing a useable space and with a guide system for at least partially lowering the door into a storage space in a guided manner, the device comprising at... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090013989 - Lineal slot ventilator with internal cleaning system and adjustable baffle: In an exemplary embodiment, this system is found within a kitchen hood, such as those found in restaurants, used to remove excess cooking heat and grease. Building fire safety and sanitation codes mandate routine hood maintenance to maintain fire safety, operator comfort and workplace sanitation. Conventional maintenance can be very... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090013990 - Concentrating solar collector: The invention concerns a concentrating collector comprising a cover (1) transparent to the sun's rays, a cylindro-parabolic reflector (2), a coolant element (3) and a transformer (5) for reducing losses of energy by emissivity, said transformer (5) not being contacted with said coolant element (3).... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090013991 - Modular solar air circulating and conditioning apparatus: A modular solar air circulating and conditioning apparatus includes a box body, a heat absorbing unit and a transparent cover. The box body includes a surrounding wall and a bottom. The wall has a connecting portion and the bottom has a pipe portion interconnected with the containing space of the... Agent: Hdsl

20090013992 - Cover for an object using solar radiation: A cover for an object using solar radiation includes a cover sheet made of a material transparent to solar radiation, wherein, viewed in cross-sectional view with respect to the sheet, the sheet has a zigzag profiled surface structure on either side. A combination of two covers has cover plates of... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090007897 - Heating apparatus with sliding mechanism: A heating apparatus (20) comprises a box (22), a door (23) and sliding mechanism (21). The door is slidably mounted on the box. The sliding mechanism includes a static member (25), a sliding member (24) and at least a resilient member (26). The sliding member is slidably mounted on the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090007898 - Stove top device: An improved gas burner system is disclosed. The burner system comprises a conventional household gas burner with a grill for supporting a cooking utensil, a head generating an annular flame and a device placed around the head and preferably extending to the grill. The device has a wall for containing... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20090007899 - Wettable heat generating composition compressed body, heat generating body, and process for producing wettable heat generating composition compressed body: A wettable heat generating composition compressed body resulting from compression of a moldable heat generating composition capable of causing an exothermic reaction upon contact with air, which is characterized in that the heat generating composition is one prepared by subjecting a reaction mixture containing, as essential components, an iron powder,... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090007900 - Method for operating an active thermal energy storage system: An active thermal energy storage system is disclosed which uses an energy storage material that is stable at atmospheric pressure and temperature and has a melting point higher than 32 degrees F. This energy storage material is held within a storage tank and used as an energy storage source, from... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20090007901 - Solar collector system for solar thermal applications: A solar collector system includes a plurality of frames. Each frame includes at least a pair of spaced apart side members, a plurality of cross members connected to the side members, the cross members pivotally moveable from a shipping configuration to a deployed configuration wherein in the deployed configuration, each... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090000609 - Cooking grill with electrically driven variable height fire box: An outside cooking grill has a frame with a cooking box at the upper end thereof. Suspended within the cooking box near the upper end is a grill. The bottom of the cooking box is open and slideably receives therein a vertically moveable firebox. At least one electrically driven jack... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090000610 - Microheater and process for producing the same: A microheater having a heat generating composition molded body made of a moldable heat generating composition containing surplus water as a connecting substance accommodated in an air-permeable accommodating bag, which is characterized in that the accommodating bag is made of a heat seal layer-containing substrate and a covering material and... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090000611 - Solar and heat pump powered electric forced hot air hydronic furnace: A furnace in combination with a heat pump and solar panels for providing domestic hot water and forced hot or cooled air utilizing heat pump achieved efficiency levels in an on-demand and unlimited domestic hot water, heating and air conditioning system. In heating mode, recycled air acquires heat from the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090000612 - Apparatuses and methods for shaping reflective surfaces of optical concentrators: Apparatuses and methods for shaping reflective surfaces of optical concentrators are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of an optical concentrator in accordance with the present invention includes a reflective surface and one or more shaping components that help to provide a desired shape to the reflective surface. Exemplary shaping components preferably... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20090000613 - Solar power harvester: A solar energy harvester comprises: an elongated stationary solar irradiance converter assembly; a concentrator comprised of a substantially flat array of flat reflective heliostatic slats disposed at tilt angles to concentrate the sun onto the converter assembly, said slats each rotating in elevation about a north-south axis; sun sensor detecting... Agent: Tue Nguyen