Stoves and furnaces inventions 05/09

20090133684 - Method for cooking vegetables using steam: A method of operating a household oven to cook vegetables using steam during a cooking cycle.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090133685 - Heliostat array layouts for multi-tower central receiver solar power plants: A solar power plant includes central receiver modules arranged in a regular pattern. Each central receiver module includes a tower, a central receiver mounted on the tower, and a heliostat array bounded by a polygon. The heliostat array includes heliostats with mirrors for reflecting sunlight to the central receiver. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090133686 - Solar collection apparatus, solar collection arrays, and related methods: A solar collection apparatus includes a housing with a first opening, a second opening, and a partially-mirrored floor. The device includes fins with first and second end segments and curved bodies. Both sides of the fin bodies have the same curvature, and both sides are mirrored. The curved bodies of... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090133687 - Solar air conditioning device: A solar air conditioning device includes an inlet assembly, an outlet assembly, a plurality of solar collectors, and a plurality of connecting assemblies connecting the solar collectors together. Each solar collector has a transparent panel and a heat-absorbing set located below the transparent panel. The heat-absorbing set includes a plurality... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090133688 - Solar cooking pot: A solar cooker in the form of a pot with double-walled body and lid configured to collectively constitute a near-hermetic thermal enclosure including a closed, solar radiation-absorbing and heat-retaining vessel surrounded by a vacuum insulation shield encased in a transparent peripheral jacket. The device intercepts solar energy omnidirectionally, and collects... Agent: William H.t. La

20090133689 - Basic solar module for a device collecting solar radiation: The basic solar module (3) comprises a frame (31) that can be placed directly or indirectly on the ground, means (32) for processing solar radiation that are mounted on the frame, the frame comprising, which being situated between the ground and the frame, a rotating cylindrical rounded surface of which... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090133690 - Integrated thermal and photovoltaic solar collector and method for operation and mounting an array of solar collectors: An integrated, modular solar collector comprising an array of solar collection devices, wherein the array of solar collection devices is mounted in a frame providing for air flow, piping and/or electrical connections between the devices.... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20090126714 - Temperature control apparatus and method for a barbeque grill: A temperature control system for controlling the rate of flow of a flammable fluid at generally constant pressure is disclosed. The system may include a flow control apparatus that is free of a regulator mechanism, for affecting the flow of the fluid. The flow control apparatus may be operable between... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090126715 - Gas cooking appliance with removable burners and useable work area: A gas cooking appliance for use with at least one removable burner, the cooking appliance including a structural housing supporting a cooktop surface having at least one convertible area for use with the at least one removable burner. When the at least one removable burner is operable with the cooking... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090126716 - U-shaped burner for grill: Burner for a gas grill includes an inlet section, a first straight section contiguous with the inlet section, a curved section contiguous with the first straight section, and a second straight section contiguous with the curved section and having a portion parallel to the first straight section to provide the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090126717 - Solar thermal collection: Solar thermal collector body in the form of an integrally extruded or continuously cast panel including as an integral part of its cross-sectional profile a tubular hollow body adapted for the flow therethrough of a flowable heat carrier medium, including ends which permit the inflow of cold heat carrier medium... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090126718 - Method and device for utilizing solar energy: Vertically placed solar collectors arranged in a circular formation aided by magnifying glasses and mirrors to increase the heating effect of solar energy. Mirrors and magnifying glasses placed around the outside and in the center of the circular formation. Optional computer controlled movement of the solar collectors and/or the mirrors... Agent: Uzi Ezra Havosha & Partners

20090120424 - Cooking appliance: A cooking appliance, particularly an elevated-mounted cooking appliance, comprising: at least one muffle, which delimits a cooking compartment and whose muffle opening is surrounded by a muffle frame; a door for closing the muffle opening; a drive device, which is controlled by a control circuit and which serves to displace... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090120423 - Double fuel burning stove: Double fuel burning stove formed by an external casing, characterised by the fact that said stove is composed of two hearths, a first hearth (4) for one fuel and a second hearth (5) for a second fuel, the second hearth (5) being placed above the first hearth (4) and the... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20090120425 - Extended lid member for cooking utensils: The subject device is an energy savings lid for cooking utensils to be placed on a stove burner, with the subject device being essentially a covering lid for such a utensil having a surrounding downwardly turned flange extension all or part of the outer circumference of the lid such surrounding... Agent: George R. Royer

20090120426 - Fireplace hearth pad: The FIREPLACE HEARTH PAD is a configuration of rectangles that contour a raised surface. Used to provide protection, this form covers the flat top, a pivot within the form continues the protection, covering the outer most protruding edge. Another pivot within the form allows the coverage to continue for the... Agent: Mary Beth Boyette

20090120427 - Water heater of endorsement with ionized ignition and control of electronic temperature for heaters of circulation forced with solar application of energy: The forced recirculation solar water heating system with a backup water heater works through an electronic card that initiates the operation and activation of the water recirculators when there is a difference of 2° C. between the panel and the storage tank [detected] by means of a bimetallic cable connected... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090120428 - Latching solar concentrator pivoted mirrors during off-power period: A novel latch for pivoted optical elements of a solar concentrator and other equipment latches them in position between orientation operations. The mirrors may be on a universal pivot that can rotate or tilt in any direction; or on gimbal pivots. The orientation power can be turned off between alignments... Agent: Mario Rabinowitz

20090120429 - Solar-powered headset: A solar-powered device includes a housing including an electronic element, a number of panels having solar cells capable of providing electrical energy upon illumination, the panels being configured to move from a closed configuration to an open configuration, where the open configuration allows illumination to fall upon the solar cells... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090114207 - Portable barbecue device: A portable barbeque device comprises an exterior housing for being supported on a wheeled chassis and having a door supporting an appliance housing thereon. The appliance housing comprises a base and a pivotal lid arranged to define a cooking chamber therein. A gas burner supported on the base provides heat... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20090114208 - Portable, self-contained cooking unit: A cooking unit is provided that is non-reliant on proprietary gas sources/containers, and includes a gas valve for interfacing with readily available, non-proprietary gas sources. The unit is ignited without the need for additional equipment such as, for example, a lighter or matches. The unit is configured to be able... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090114206 - Furnace air handler blower housing with an enlarged air outlet opening: An air distribution blower housing for an air handler such as a residential furnace is designed with an enlarged air outlet opening that slows down and spreads out the air flow from the blower housing over a greater area of the furnace heat exchanger. The blower housing thereby enables less... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090114205 - High efficiency furnace having a blower housing with an enlarged air outlet opening: An air distribution blower housing for a furnace is designed with an enlarged air outlet opening that slows down and spreads out the air flow from the blower housing over a greater area of the furnace heat exchanger. The blower housing thereby enables less air pressure drop through the heat... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090114210 - Method and apparatus for controlling weeds with solar energy: A method and apparatus for controlling weeds using concentrated solar energy is disclosed. Solar energy may be concentrated by Fresnel lens and directed by manual or automated methods at surfaces of weed plants to heat portions thereof causing damage. Shutters or other devices may be used to direct, and control... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20090114209 - Solar collector and mounting bracket: A solar collector with a rectangular frame (1), preferably made of extruded or rollformed metal, containing an absorber plate (3), an insulating layer (2) beneath the absorber plate (3), and a cover pane (4) spaced above the absorber (3). Absorber tubing (3b.3c) is attached to the rear side of the... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20090114211 - Automated solar tracking system: An automated tracking solar power collector is disclosed herein, the tracking solar powered collector includes at least one solar collector such as a solar concentrator and an actuator coupled to the at least one solar collector. The tracking solar power collector further includes a tracking controller configured to aim the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090114212 - Hybrid solar panel: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for improved efficiency in the collection of solar energy, in which an energy conversion device is provided that includes a first zone for converting received solar energy into thermal energy, the first zone having a Fresnel lens, and a heat absorption layer with heat... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090114213 - Solar concentrator with square mirrors: The present invention is a solar concentrator system incorporating a square primary mirror, a square secondary mirror, and an optical receiver. The square secondary mirror provides highly efficient throughput of light in combination with the square primary mirror, with minimal shading. Manufacturing features may be incorporated into the square secondary... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.C.