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Stoves and furnaces December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090320822 - Portable barbeque: A portable barbeque has a grill and a stand. The grill has a bottom. The stand is mounted in the bottom of the grill and has a primary leg assembly and a secondary leg. The primary leg assembly has two primary legs, each having a pivot pole and a main... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090320823 - Cooktop swirl burner: A gas burner for a cooking appliance is described. The gas burner includes a burner with an inner and outer wall positioned on a burner base, and a circular combustion chamber. The burner includes a plurality of angled fuel exit ports in the inner wall that swirl gaseous fuel into... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090320821 - Cooking appliance: A cooking appliance, in particular, a cooking appliance which is mounted in an elevated manner. Said cooking appliance comprises at least one muffle which is defined by a cooking chamber and which comprises a muffle opening, a door which is used to close the muffle opening and a drive motor... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090320824 - Arrangement for reflection of heat radiation, process of making same and uses of same: The heat reflecting arrangement with an improved high heat resistance, e.g. 100 hours at 500° C., includes a substrate, a heat reflecting layer (A) on at least one side of the substrate, which contains indium tin oxide (ITO), and a barrier layer (B) that covers the heat reflecting layer (A),... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090320825 - Gate device: The invention relates to a gate device (50) for use in conveying devices (10) for the automatic charging of small-sized solid fuels (3), especially wood pellets, characterized by a chamber (52) which is movable by means of a slide element (53), comprising a filling opening (51) and an outlet opening... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090320826 - Mounting frame for supporting sheet-type solar panels: The invention relates to a mounting frame for supporting sheet-type solar panels (12) comprising, fitted substantially vertically for anchoring by its lower end (13a) in the ground or by a fixed anchoring location (13b), a supporting mast (13) at which the solar panels (12) resting on a plane panel support... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090320827 - Solar array tracker controller: A solar array tracker controller including an operator programmable micro- processor electronically connected to the drive motors in a solar panel array or other solar device array. The processor is user programmable and includes memory for storing a software program which includes an algorithm that determines the precise location of... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20090320828 - Heating medium supply system, integrated solar combined cycle electric power generation system and method of controlling these systems: A heating medium supply system (4) is provided which, even when a temperature fluctuation of a heating medium occurs continuously, is capable of relieving a bad thermal influence upon a heat exchanging device due to the temperature fluctuation. The heating medium supply system (4) includes: a heating system (6) configured... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090320829 - Monitoring apparatus: Apparatus for monitoring a solar thermal system, the solar thermal system being for recovering heat energy by heating a heat transfer medium, the apparatus including a processing system for determining a flow rate of the heat transfer medium, determining a temperature change for the heat transfer medium, causing data to... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090320830 - Solar power device: A concentrating solar power device may include a primary mirror, a secondary mirror, and a thermal storage device. The primary mirror may reflect solar rays from the sun towards the secondary mirror. The secondary mirror may reflect the solar rays reflected from the primary mirror towards the thermal storage device.... Agent: RozenblatIPLLC And The Boeing Company

20090314285 - Cooking device and associated methods: A cooking device comprises a center assembly including a rear panel and a pair of opposing side panels hingedly connected to the rear panel. The center assembly may be movable between an expanded position and a collapsed position. The cooking device also includes a front panel, a top panel and... Agent: Zies Widerman & Malek, P.l.

20090314276 - Heating cooking apparatus: There is provided a heating cooking apparatus which can reduce heating and cooking time by reducing the time for raising the temperature of a heating chamber to a desired temperature. In a heat source chamber 30, since the distance between a heat source 31 formed in the spiral shape in... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090314278 - Barbecue grill with sear section: Various embodiments of a gas valve and a sear-zone gas burner are described and claimed herein. One embodiment described herein relates to a control valve for regulating the flow of gas to a burner tube for a barbecue grill, wherein the control valve includes multiple flow settings, including a sear... Agent: David I. Roche Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090314273 - Lightweight, portable cooking stove: A small, lightweight, portable cooking stove that utilizes alcohol as fuel and is suitable for backpacking, hunting, camping and similar activities. The cooking stove includes a combustion chamber which encloses, contains and regulates the entire combustion process. The stove also includes an efficient fuel vaporizer, which is adapted to perform... Agent: Klemchuk Kubasta LLP

20090314274 - Lightweight, portable cooking stove: A small, lightweight, portable cooking stove that utilizes alcohol as fuel and is suitable for backpacking, hunting, camping and similar activities. The cooking stove includes a combustion chamber which encloses, contains and regulates the entire combustion process. The stove also includes an efficient fuel vaporizer, which is adapted to perform... Agent: Klemchuk Kubasta LLP

20090314275 - Warm air furnace: A warm air furnace capable of reliably carry out the fuel consumption conserving operation notwithstanding the condition such as the heating load is provided. The warm air furnace is equipped with an ecology operation setting unit 41, 47 for setting a saving operation function which makes the target temperature setting... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090314277 - Collapsible pedestal attachment for a portable cooking device and associated methods: A pedestal for a cooking device comprises a main body including a base having a plurality of leg receiving passageways formed therein, sidewalls extending upwardly from the base, a passageway formed in a medial portion of the base and fastener receiving passageways formed in at least one of the sidewalls.... Agent: Zies Widerman & Malek, P.l.

20090314279 - Solar tracking sensor array: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for solar tracking. The solar tracking sensor array and method so disclosed can be used with any device that requires a specific orientation to the sun for optimal operation. The system relies upon a sun tracking mechanism which includes a plurality of... Agent: Ipcl Group PLC

20090314280 - apparatus and a method for solar tracking and concentration af incident solar radiation for power generation: A method and an apparatus are presented for solar tracking and concentration of incident solar radiation for power generation. The apparatus includes a solar tracking system, an optical concentrator system and a radiation collection device. The solar tracking system includes a right ascension track and a declination track for dual... Agent: Rajarshi Banerjee

20090314281 - Solar collector having an integrated heat storage: The present invention relates to a solar collector having an integrated heat storage (ICS), in which between an involute mirror and a transparent cover plate a storage tank for the storage of water is provided and in which the storage tank is provided with a light absorbing fin. At the... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20090314282 - Low cost, high efficiency solar heating window insert & through-wall device: This passive solar heating invention is designed to be a single or full window installation (for most sliding and double-hung windows) that is the simplest, lightest, and most cost effective answer to the world-wide demand for clean, cheap, renewable energy. The bias in designing this invention was to give the... Agent: John M. Trumbull

20090314283 - Support of heat collectors in solar energy collectors: Examples and variations of apparatus and Methods for concentrating solar radiation are disclosed.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090314284 - Solar absorptive coating system: A paintable, low VOC coating improving the solar absorption of materials consists of an aqueous suspension of nanoparticle aluminum oxide, carbon nanotubes, and carbon black.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090308374 - Cooking grates and grills incorporating such grates: Cooking grates and grills incorporating such cooking grates are provided. A representative cooking grate includes: a plurality of elongate elements of heat resistant material, the elements being V-shaped in transverse cross-section, each of the elements having a first lower edge, a second lower edge and a vertex, the first lower... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090308373 - Portable insulated grill: A portable insulated grill has a housing and a lid, both of which have inner and outer shells of metal with a plenum therebetween filled with an insulating material such as fiberglass. A hinge couples the lid to the housing, and a tube is attached on the bottom of the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090308381 - Wall thimble with outside air inlet: A wall thimble for use with a heating appliance. Dual functionality is provided in a single wall thimble device by having a vent path for exhausting combustion by-products, and a separate air inlet path to draw in outside combustion air for use by the heating appliance. The wall thimble is... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090308382 - Eccentric telescopic portable outdoor heater: An eccentric telescopic portable outdoor heater includes a burner assembly, a base, and a connecting assembly provided between the burner assembly and the base. The connecting assembly is an arched telescopic curving-arm assembly adjusting the height of the burner assembly, which has a lower curving-arm, an upper curving-arm inserted into... Agent: Richard R. Clark

20090308372 - Selectable efficiency versus comfort for modulating furnace: A furnace controller for a modulating furnace that helps provide a balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort across various burner firing rates and/or across various circulating blower speeds. In some cases, the furnace controller can be configured to permit a user to customize operation of the furnace in accordance... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090308375 - Triggering plate of a chemical heating pack: A triggering plate of a chemical thermos bag has at least a groove with a slit, having two opposite tip parts hiding each other and the tip parts being different in thickness.... Agent: The Weintraub Group, P.L.C

20090308376 - Smart device for absorbing solar energy and controling sunlight admission: The present invention provides a process for absorbing solar energy and, simultaneously having a continuous control of the light admission making it possible to install the device in external openings of buildings and equipment, such as windows, shutters or skylights. The system comprises two frames which support plates of transparent... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090308377 - Optical system with a transparent sphere and use of the same: The invention relates to an optical system comprising a transparent ball, particularly filled with a transparent liquid. Direct sunlight that is incident on the ball area exposed to the sun is reflected on the opposite, internal face of the hollow ball by means of a rotary mirror in such a... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090308378 - Solar heat powered system comprising at least one solar collector: A solar heat powered system has at least one solar collector and a feed line for solar fluid leading away from the solar collector. The feed line is divided into at least two partial lines in sections. There is at least one heat exchanger arranged in each partial line. By... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090308379 - Hyperbolic solar trough field system: The subject matter of the invention of hyperbolic solar trough field system (B, II) comprises hyperbolic reflectors (20, 20m) in which the beams that come from the sun parallel, but of which the angle of incident changes at a fixed rate of 15 degrees per hour throughout the day are... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090308380 - Telescoping devices: Telescoping devices, as well as related components, systems, and methods, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090301470 - Foldable fuel burner: A foldable burner (10) is shown in the assembled and expanded condition. Foldable burner (10) comprises a raised platform (12) formed from aluminum foil portions (4b) and (4c) onto which fuel (14) can be placed. Tabs (16) are provided for gripping by a user to expand the burner from the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090301460 - Oven muffle: An oven muffle that has at least two wall elements adjoining each other, which delimit at least some regions of an interior space that is used as a cooking chamber. The wall elements are of a glass or a glass ceramic and the adjacent wall elements are oriented at an... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090301461 - Oven muffle: An oven muffle having a receiving space, at least some regions of which are delimited by wall elements, in which at least one of the wall elements is permeable to IR radiation or has a region that is permeable to IR radiation. In the oven muffle, the cooking performance is... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090301463 - Portable cooking system: A portable cooking system comprising a base tray, a grill plate, a lid, and a reflector is provided. The base tray comprises a heating through hole and a basin provided at a bottom of the base tray. The grill plate comprises a central opening, a substantially annular surface, and a... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090301462 - Cover for stovetop mounted in counter: A cover for a stovetop, which is mounted in a counter, having a flat member and a peripheral side member depending therefrom with first and second handles formed in the depending peripheral side member. The cover is made of metal, plastic or ceramic material for decorative purposes, entertaining and/or additional... Agent: Michael F. Petock, Esquire

20090301464 - Cooking appliance mounted at an elevated level: A cooking appliance which is mounted at an elevated level and comprises at least one muffle that defines a cooking compartment and is provided with a muffle opening, and a bottom door for closing the muffle opening. The inventive cooking appliance is provided with a boundary decoration on the top... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090301465 - Method and system for delivering electrical power from upper earth atmosphere to ground-based distribution systems: A solar energy collector/converter in space must somehow transmit energy to the ground-based distribution system. This invention provides a way to send the energy with low transit energy loss by suspending receivers and conduits in the air using vessels which are buoyant in the atmosphere. The conduits contain conductive transmission... Agent: Steven Lee Speidel

20090301466 - Solar tracker with movement in two axes and actuation in only one of them: According to FIG. 6, it consists of a solar tracking device with two axes of rotation, which is actuated only in one of them by virtue of the incorporation into the mechanism of a support bar of adjustable length (8), which is articulated at its two ends and anchored via... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090301467 - Control method and device for quasi-uniaxial sun chase of solar panels: The present invention relates to a control method and device for quasi-uniaxial sun chase of solar panels. The present method uses uniaxial driving to perform real-time tracking of the zodiacal longitude position of solar “daily periodic change”, then abiding by seasonal “annual periodic change” to perform tracking fine tuning of... Agent: Hong-wen Cheng

20090301468 - Thermal storage tank for a hot water system and controlling method thereof: A controlling method for a hot water system and a thermal storage tank for a hot water system are provided in the present invention. The method includes the steps of: (a) turning on the pump to circulate the first fluid and to provide the heat collector with the first fluid;... Agent: Richard Landry Gray

20090301469 - Solar collectors: The invention concerns a solar collector (10) which has at least one radiation-transmitting prism (16) which is wedge shaped in cross section. The prism has major side surfaces (20, 21) converging at an acute angle to a relatively narrow, operatively upper end (24). The opposite, lower end (26) of the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090293857 - Domestic appliance and a cookable product holding device therefor: A domestic appliance includes a muffle in which an item support device for supporting cookable products is disposed that includes a depth stop. The depth stop limits movement of the item support device in a depth direction during withdrawal of the holding device extraction and the depth stop is in... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090293858 - Grill apparatus: A grill apparatus (10) includes a base (12), first and second grills (16, 18) supported by the base (12) with each grill (16, 18) having a grilling surface (16a, 16b) for cooking a food product, and first and second control members (26a, 26b) for independently and selectively controlling the temperature... Agent: Lawrence Cruz Conair Corporation

20090293867 - Combustion blower control for modulating furnace: A furnace includes a combustion blower and one or more pressure switches. In some cases, the one or more pressure switches may be used to calculate one or more operating points for the combustion blower. Additional operating points may be calculated by interpolation and/or extrapolation, as appropriate. The furnace may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090293859 - Portable heating apparatus and metal fuel composite for use with same: A particulate composite fuel of metal preferably of aluminum for a portable heater. The fuel reacts with oxygen in the air, producing heat. The composite fuel may also be flaked aluminum or iron nanopowder. A portable heater having a fuel mass, at least one thermal conductive member, and at least... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20090293860 - Systems and methods relating to fireplaces comprising modular feed and combustion systems for biomass solid particulate fuels: Fireplaces suitable for outdoor patio and built-in fireplaces, fire pits and the like that burn biomass solid particulate fuels wherein such fireplaces comprise at least one feed system that is modular which can feed from at least one feed bin onto one or more burn grates. This allows for greater... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090293861 - Solar tracker system and method of making: A solar tracker system and method for making are disclosed. The system may comprise a solar panel array assembly having at least two attachments, a support anchor assembly for attaching to a surface and having at least two attachments, and a support structure including a plurality of elongated support rods... Agent: Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne A Law Corporation

20090293862 - Solar thermal collector cabinet and system for heat storage: A solar thermal collection cabinet is disclosed that includes a thermal mass comprising concrete mix and metallic pieces. The cabinet includes a corrugated metallic surface with a black finish that faces solar radiation. A plurality of metallic bolts attaches the black corrugated surface to the thermal mass, to enable good... Agent: Eugene H. Eickholt

20090293864 - Plug and play solar panel assembly: A plug and play solar panel assembly is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a substantially rectangular sheet having a first area configured to fit between a first layer and a second layer of a weatherproof surface. The sheet has a second area configured to protrude from the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090293863 - Wiring system for integrated solar panel assembles: A solar panel mounting system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a first solar panel. A first plug electrically connects to the first solar panel. A second plug electrically connects to the first solar panel.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090293865 - Solar heat powered system comprising a circuit for a heat transfer medium: A solar heat powered system has a circuit for a heat transfer medium and at least one spur line that branches off from the circuit for the heat transfer medium. There is at least one expansion container connected to the at least one spur line. The spur line has a... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090293866 - Solar thermal collector insert: A solar thermal energy collector with integrated flowpath is provided. The insert can be connected to a solar collector manifold for collecting solar energy. The insert with integrated flowpaths can be surrounded by an evacuated chamber. A fluid can be used to transfer the heat collected from the insert. The... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law