Stoves and furnaces inventions 02/09

20090050129 - Catalytic converter unit and method for treating cooking emissions: A catalytic conversion unit treats emissions emanating from a cooking event. The unit comprises a housing to contain the other components that connects either directly or through the use of ancillary components to the oven cavity of a residential range, or oven. Contained within the housing are an electric heating... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20090050130 - Cooling and exhaust system of dual electric oven: A cooling and exhaust system of a dual oven has upper and lower ovens, in which, in one aspect, an installation structure of a cooling fan and an exhaust structure provided for respectively cooling and exhausting the upper and lower ovens may be integrated into a simplified structure having common... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090050131 - Water-cooled barbecue system: Disclosed is a water-cooled barbecue system with a cooling fluid circulation system which avoids meat from sticking to a grill and from burning. The water-cooled barbecue system comprises: a body, the upper portion thereof being open to provide heat from the supplied fuel, a receiving space being defined by the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090050132 - Fireplace arrangement: A fireplace arrangement is provided with a grate and simulated logs that are arranged on the grate to provide the look and feel of a fireplace with natural wood logs. The simulated logs each have a securing element that is attached to a surface of the simulated log. The securing... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090050133 - Reflector and a receiver for a solar energy collection system: The present invention provides a reflector (24) for a solar energy collection system (20). The reflector (24) is arranged for diverting light received from solar energy collectors (22). The solar energy collectors (22) are arranged for focusing the collected light to an elongate focal region of the reflector (24) wherein,... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090044796 - Elevator for hot plates or grates of barbecue grills: The object of the present patent is an elevator for hot plates or grates of barbecue grills, having gutters (1), (2) and (3) assembled in a “U” shape, the gutter (5), in its ends the plates (6) with rollers (8), the gutters (10), (11) and (12), also assembled the shape... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20090044793 - Furnace burner box: A burner box for a furnace. The burner box includes a housing attached to the furnace. The burner box further includes a module configured to align and support a burner within the housing. The module is detachable from the housing and removable from the furnace burners. The module is detachable... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090044794 - Inducer speed control method for combustion furnace: In a multistage combustion furnace having a motor driven inducer blower and a pressure sensing device or set of switches for sensing pressure in the combustion gas flowpath through the furnace, a high firing rate blower speed and low firing rate blower speed are set based on the blower speed... Agent: The Trane Company Patent Department 12-1

20090044795 - Grate apparatus and method of cleaning: A grate assembly includes a cook top defining a support surface, and a grate that includes a projection extending from a peripheral portion. The projection is configured to support a cooking vessel on the grate. The peripheral portion is configured to support the grate on the support surface. A hole... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090044797 - Radiant baffle/collector for roof construction and retrofit: A baffle system that can be used to provide ventilation to attics and roofs at the time of new roof construction or retrofit and further provides for solar thermal energy control and harvesting systems in conjunction or combination with the baffle systems. According to one embodiment, the baffle vents are... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20090044798 - Coilable solar water heater: A coilable solar water heater includes a heat collecting plate and a soft pipe. The heat collecting plate includes two heat collecting layers, capillary tissues, two protecting layers and a soft support body. The heat collecting layers are stacked with each other and form a plurality of passages at intervals... Agent: Hdsl

20090038605 - Portable cooking device: A portable outdoor cooking device includes a body portion having a heat source and a cooking attachment and support members attached to the body portion. The support members are collapsible and can be configured to fold and store beneath the body portion of the outdoor cooking device when the device... Agent: Keely Schneiter

20090038603 - Pellet stove: A pellet stove is disclosed comprising a reverse flow heated air pathway defined by stove sections. In an illustrated embodiment, the space between upper and lower stove sections is open to provide a heating or oven area. The stove can be readily disassembled in part for easy portability.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090038604 - Oven flap: Attached to the steel plate are two Stainless Steel hinges. These can either be welded on or attached with nuts and bolts. The height and with of the invention can be adjusted to fit ovens which have different openings sizes but the function and use of the invention remains exactly... Agent: Kenneth Neil Thompson

20090038606 - Knockdown ventless shallow sheetmetal fireplace firebox: In accordance with the present invention a knockdown ventless sheetmetal fireplace firebox that is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble, and is less than 10″ in exterior depth.... Agent: Michael Weinberger

20090038607 - Motorized tracking device: A mount and tracking mechanism for solar panels and antennae. The tracking mechanism comprises electric motor actuators which operate a small gear reducer drive. The output of the small reducer drive is connected to the input of a large gear reducer drive. The output of the large gear reducer drive... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20090038608 - Multi-receiver heliostat system architecture: A system architecture for large concentrated solar power applications that increases heliostat utilization efficiency and land utilization efficiency is described. Embodiments of the invention include a large heliostat field in which are distributed a number of receiving locations, and wherein there is the assignment of heliostats to receiving locations is... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090038609 - Single-unit solar water heating device: A solar water heater including an angularly inclined housing structure. The housing structure includes an inlet for receiving water and an outlet for discharging heated water. Encased within the housing, lies a plurality of heating pipes for absorbing solar energy. The plurality of heating pipes is operatively connected to the... Agent: Kohn & Associates, PLLC

20090032009 - Grill with improved-configuration grease collecting box: A grill with improved-configuration grease collecting box comprising feet, a pan mounted on the feet and a heating device on the backside of the pan, the feet form an opening to contain the grease collecting box, both sides of the opening have supports, the opening mounted a grease collecting box... Agent: Kening Li Pinsent Masons

20090032007 - Heating cooker: A heating cooker includes a top panel for placing a load thereon and touch operation parts for allowing the user to operate the heating of the heater to heat the load. The operation display parts of the touch operation parts each include display characters disposed under the top panel and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090032008 - Pyrolysis appliance: A pyrolysis device having at least one muffle defining a cooking space and is formed with a has a muffle opening, at least one door for closing the muffle opening, and at least one drive motor for moving the door, and a self-locking gear operatively associated with the drive motor.... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090032012 - Radiant gas burner unit: An improved radiant gas burner unit is provided having a shallow base with long walls and shorter walls. The shallow base supports a radiant gas burner plate or plates having openings therethrough, and forming an external surface of the base for emitting high temperature gas radiation. At least three mixing... Agent: Jeanne E. Longmuir

20090032010 - Domestic appliance door and pertaining operational module: An operational module for a domestic appliance door including at least one operational control received therein, wherein the operational module is configured for at least partial insertion into a recess of the domestic appliance door from the exterior. An operational module for a domestic appliance door, including at least two... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090032011 - control of exhaust systems: Exhaust capture and containment are enhanced by means of automatic or manual side skirts, a sensitive breach detector based on interference effects, a combination of vertical and horizontal edge jets, and/or corner jets that are directed to the center diagonally from corners. Associated control functions are described.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090032013 - Preformed fireplace capable of venting vertically or horizontally: A gas fireplace is provided including a first housing having a first upper wall, and a second housing within the first housing having a second upper wall spaced apart from the first upper wall and defining a space there between. A combustion chamber is defined within said second housing. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090032014 - Variable tilt tracker for photovoltaic arrays: A solar tracking system is disclosed. The tracking system includes a tube rotatable around its end-to-end axis. A first support is coupled to the tube at a first location of the tube, and is coupled with a first base. A second support is coupled to the tube at a second... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP