Stoves and furnaces inventions 03/09

20090078245 - Gas grill apparatus with integrated modules: A gas grill apparatus includes a supporting frame, a plurality of gas burners, a valve module, an ignition module, and a control module. The valve module includes a valve box supported at a rear portion of a bottom compartment of the supporting frame, a gas inlet, and a plurality of... Agent: Saban Chang

20090078246 - Barbeque grill assembly: A barbeque grill assembly (10) including a grill plate (12) and a cooking insert (14). The grill plate (12) has a substantially planar first cooking surface (26) with an opening (28) therein. The cooking insert (14) is adapted for releasable engagement with the opening (28) and has a substantially planar... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090078247 - Removable flame heat transfer regulating apparatus including an inner hollow shell and outer wall incorporated with a burner having improved burner ports for a gas stove: A flame heat transfer regulating apparatus including an inner hollow shell and outer wall incorporated with a burner having improved burner ports for a gas stove to increase the flame heating efficiency in cooking. The shell is an ascending wall including a smaller sized bottom opening and a larger sized... Agent: Yizhong Sun

20090078244 - Metal panel, manufacturing method thereof and cooking device using the metal panel: A metal panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a cooking device using the metal panel capable of improving an external appearance of edges, enhancing efficiency of a manufacturing process and reducing the manufacturing cost. The manufacturing method of a metal panel includes cutting a metal plate to form a cutaway... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090078248 - Economical polar-axis solar tracker for a circular reflective dish: The most urgent need in the field of solar energy is to lower the final cost per watt of all involved components. Some of the most expensive components within a solar tracker go into the precision drive system which accurately follows the motion of the sun. This invention reduces the... Agent: Daniel Norvin Brown

20090078249 - Device for concentrating optical radiation: A device for concentrating optical radiation comprises a collection frame, and a radiation collector. The collection frame also has a collecting surface and a focal point 120. The collecting surface is adapted to collect optical radiation, and more particularly to collect solar radiation, from different directions, and guide the radiation... Agent: Robert Dabney Eastham

20090078250 - Method of manufacturing solar cell module and solar cell module thus manufactured: A method of manufacturing a solar cell module, including: forming a laminated body including a first protective member, a first sealing member having a first melting point, a plurality of solar cells, a second sealing member having a second melting point higher than the first melting point, and the second... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090071462 - Barbecue grill transmission device: The present invention is to provide a barbecue grill transmission device includes a grill platen having a grill shelf mounted at the top thereof, and a pair of grooves at two sides of the grill shelf for pivotally a rolling shaft, which is used to string up food to be... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090071465 - Improvements in barbeques: A barbeque (20) including at least one grill plate (36), at least one gas burner (38) and a drainage arrangement. The at least one grill plate (36) extends between a front end and a tear end and has an upper surface. The at least one gas burner (38) extends between... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090071468 - Heating unit for heating a patio: A heating unit (2) for heating a patio (4), which heating unit (2) comprises a heater portion (8) which provides heat for the patio (4) by burning gas from a gas container (6), and a meter (10), and the heating unit (2) being such that the meter (10) is a... Agent: Joseph Iandiorio Or Kirk Teska Iandiorio & Teska

20090071463 - Lighting device for ovens, and oven: A lighting device for an oven having an oven muffle defining an oven muffle chamber is provided. The lighting device includes one light source configured for illuminating the muffle chamber and one partition for separating the light source from the muffle chamber. The lighting device also includes insulation material disposed... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090071464 - Handle rack: A handle rack includes a frame having first and second side edges and front and rear crossbars. A plurality of bar extend between portions of the frame. A handle cross-member is disposed rearwardly of the front crossbar and has a first end secured to the first side edge of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090071466 - Apparatus for collecting solar energy for conversion to electrical energy: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for collecting solar energy for electrical energy generation through one or more thermodynamic closed-cycle heat engines or the like. The present invention includes new designs for solar collectors that concentrate solar energy, and mechanisms for transporting and transferring the concentrated solar energy directly into... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20090071467 - Multi-junction solar cells with a homogenizer system and coupled non-imaging light concentrator: The present embodiments provide methods and systems to homogenize illumination on a target. Some embodiments provide rotational symmetric dual-reflector solar concentrators that include a concave primary reflector with an aim-direction directed toward the sun to receive optical radiation in a far-field angle within an angle of acceptance and redirect radiation... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20090064986 - Cooking oven, especially household finishing oven: The invention relates to an oven (1), in particular a home cooking oven featuring a cooking chamber (2) in which food to be cooked is placed and which can be closed with an oven door (3), with means provided that allow a stream of hot air and/or steam to be... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090064985 - High temperature bake oven: A high temperature bake oven including a source of heat, a first stone-like plate located above the heat source receiving an item to be baked, a second stone-like plate located above the first plate and a housing enclosing the first and second plates forming a bake oven chamber between the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090064984 - Oven having a uniform hot air flow in the preparation space: An oven for use in an aircraft is disclosed, including a preparation space. A fan and a heater are located behind a separating wall. The separating wall has at least one of the following devices for enhancing the uniformity of air flow: —a throat around a central air intake opening... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090064988 - Barbecue grill: A barbecue grill has a body, a cover and two pivots. The body has a top, an outer surface and two pivotal brackets mounted on two sides of the outer surface. The cover is pivotally connected to the top of the body and has two pivotal tabs. The pivotal tabs... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090064990 - Range roll pliable, heat-resistant silicone stovetop cover for smooth cooktop stoves and ranges: The Range Roll is an innovative, versatile smooth surface range cover made of pliable, colorful, heat-resistant silicone designed to protect the surface of smooth glass or ceramic cook top ranges or stoves from cracks, scratches, chips and breaks caused by falling objects such as pots, dishes, groceries, cans, or any... Agent: Ms. Karen V. Wilkins

20090064987 - Grate apparatus and method: A grate apparatus configured to support a cooking utensil over a flame of a heat source on a cooktop stove. The grate apparatus includes an outer portion with a support surface configured to support the cooking utensil. The support surface includes a first coating. A plurality of protrusions is configured... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090064989 - Oven rack apparatus and corresponding method: An oven rack apparatus for supporting a cooking utensil in an oven. The oven rack apparatus includes a support portion configured to support the cooking utensil thereon. A handle portion is disposed on a side of the support portion. The handle portion has an extremely low thermal conductivity.... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090064991 - Solar energy capturing building construction materials, systems and methods: A solar heat collecting building construction material composed of a substrate having an inner side, an opposing outer side with a conduit for fluid flow therein, wherein the outer side is configured for absorbing solar energy and facilitating conductive heat transfer to a fluid within the conduit, the inner side... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20090064992 - Absorber for a solar heating panel: An absorber for a solar heating panel, designed to contain heat-bearing liquid, and including first and second metal plates fixed to each other in a sealed manner, a matrix of geometrical shapes applied in relief on each of the first and second plates, with the matrices being staggered so as... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090064993 - Solar energy concentrator: A solar concentrator having a concentrator element for collecting input light, a reflective component with a plurality of incremental steps for receiving the light and also for redirecting the light, and a waveguide including a plurality of incremental portions enabling collection and concentration of the light.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090064994 - Concentrating solar collector: A concentrating solar collector comprises concentrating solar collector modules mounted on a frame. Each concentrating solar collector module comprises a trough with a lens sheet over its open face. The troughs each have a cross section that is substantially V shaped with a truncated (or flattened) base. The lens sheet... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090056695 - Charcoal / air bbq combustion chamber assembly: An open “funnel shaped” Inner Burner inside an open top Outer Casing. The casings closed base has a central hole accommodating the burners small open bottom Ash Exit. The space between the Inner Burner wall and Outer Casing wall forms an Annular Air Plenum that's supplied by an electric variable... Agent: Barry Cosgrove

20090056705 - Combustion system: A combustion system includes: a furnace housing defining a combustion chamber therein and having a gas outlet in fluid communication with the combustion chamber; a plenum housing surrounding and cooperating with the furnace housing to define a plenum chamber therebetween, and having an air inlet and an air outlet which... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090056694 - Furnace: A furnace includes: a furnace housing; a perforated tray mounted in the furnace housing; and a stirring rod disposed rotatably on the perforated tray. The stirring rod has top and bottom ends, two opposite lateral ends, a middle portion, and opposite first and second portions, each of which extends from... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090056696 - Flameless combustion heater: A flameless combustion heater is described that comprises an oxidation conduit and a fuel conduit having a plurality of centralizers attached to the external wall of the fuel conduit wherein at least one centralizer or portion of a centralizer is angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of the fuel... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090056697 - Direct-heating type carcass processing apparatus using vacuum: A direct-heating type carcass processing apparatus using vacuum. At least one piece of dead livestock infected with various diseases such as infectious diseases is heated for complete sterilization using high-pressure steam, and undergoes complete moisture removal to become dry by means of the vacuum, thereby allowing the dead livestock to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090056698 - Solar collector framework: A solar energy collector suitable for use in a solar energy collection system that tracks movements of the sun along at least one axis may have a plurality of reflector panels, a support structure that supports the reflector panels in a manner that defines a pair of adjacent reflector troughs,... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090056699 - Linear fresnel solar arrays and receievers therefor: Described herein are solar energy collector systems, components for solar energy collector systems, and methods for installing solar energy collector systems. The components for solar energy collector systems include but are not limited to solar radiation absorbers, receivers, drives, drive systems, reflectors, and various support structures. The solar energy collection... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090056700 - Sun tracking system for a solar panel: A sun tracking system includes a first, and a second photo sensors, separately mounted on a solar panel on two positions apart from one another and symmetrical with respect to a center of the panel. A first sleeve surrounds the first photosensor; a second sleeve surrounds the second photosensor. Each... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090056701 - Linear fresnel solar arrays and drives therefor: Described herein are solar energy collector systems, components for solar energy collector systems, and methods for installing solar energy collector systems. The components for solar energy collector systems include but are not limited to solar radiation absorbers, receivers, drives, drive systems, reflectors, and various support structures. The solar energy collection... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090056702 - Solar energy collecting assembly for a solar energy converter: A solar energy collecting assembly useful for transferring solar heat to a heat utilizing system via heat transfer fluid flow, comprising anisotropic graphite sheets coupled to a pipe containing heat transfer fluid , and various configurations and embodiments. Methods useful for extracting collected solar heat and transferring said heat to... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090056703 - Linear fresnel solar arrays and components therefor: Described herein are solar energy collector systems, components for solar energy collector systems, and methods for installing solar energy collector systems. The components for solar energy collector systems include but are not limited to solar radiation absorbers, receivers, drives, drive systems, reflectors, and various support structures. The solar energy collection... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090056704 - Reflecting parabolic construction for solar heating systems: A reflecting parabolic construction for solar heating systems comprises at least a reflecting parabola for concentrating solar beams on a thermal carrier containing receiver tube, wherein the parabola comprises an aluminum fretted central layer, on the faces thereof two opposite aluminum layers are applied. According to a first embodiment, in... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.