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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8291896 | Outdoor oven and cooking system An outdoor oven may have a cooking chamber defined by six sides. Each of the six sides may be insulated. A front side may have a door for access to the cooking chamber. The cooking chamber may have a baffle and a cooking plane above and separated some distance from ... | 10/23/2012 |
| 7225730 | Spit assembly support base A support base for supporting the spit assembly of a rotisserie oven. The support base includes a substantially circular-shaped member having a periphery and an indented portion defined therein. The indented portion has a frustum-conical shape and extends downwardly... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225729 | Countertop rotisserie oven with warming unit Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience, including a countertop resting box-like enclosure housing a safety rear mounted heating element and a power rotated dual rod spit assembly. The gear driven spit assembly may be easily inserted and removed straight into and... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7174885 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus capable of uniformly heating and cooking food laid on a grill unit using thermal energy radiated from a heating unit, includes a cabinet opened at a top surface thereof to provide an opening over which the food to be cooked is laid. A grill unit ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7117937 | Combined refrigerator-oven apparatus A combined refrigerator-oven (20) includes an enclosed chamber (28) having a top wall (22), a bottom wall (24), and vertical side walls (26). The refrigerator-oven (20) further includes a heating unit (50) and a refri... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7021203 | Vented countertop rotisserie oven An enclosed rotisserie cooking oven having an enclosure able to rest on a horizontal surface housing a rotisserie spit, and opening to introduce food into the enclosure, a door covering the opening having a first and a second axle rod protruding from the door's peri... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6935327 | Handle and light assembly for barbecue grills A handle and light assembly for use on a barbecue grill. The assembly is inclusive of handle and at least one source of illumination for illuminating a cooking surface inside a hollow cooking chamber of the barbecue grill. The handle may function both as a means for... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6869629 | Drip pan for an infrared cooking apparatus and method therefor An apparatus, method and system is described for catching juices dripping from food being cooked in an infrared cooking apparatus, while still allowing infrared radiation to directly irradiate the food. A drip pan has base plate with an outer perimeter and an outer ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6497276 | Combined refrigerator-oven apparatus A combined refrigerator-oven (20) includes an enclosed chamber (28) having a top wall (22), a bottom wall (24), and vertical side walls (26). The refrigerator-oven (20) further includes a heating unit (50) and a refrigeration unit (70). A controller (118)... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6176233 | Powered multi-fuel burner for field cooking A powered multi-fuel burner for heating a heating cabinet of a cooking station. A frame provides first and second lateral skids which are spaced apart to be received on first and second lateral brackets in the heating cabinet. The frame includes first and... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6012442 | Outdoor grill A grill has horizontal shelves attached to its sidewalls for holding charcoal vertically along the sidewall in different compartments. Compartments are selected for cooking according to the amount of heat required and the size and configuration of the foo... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5566607 | Grill with grease deflector assembly A grease deflector assembly for use with a grill for cooking food, which grease deflector assembly includes an elongated slat of a noncombustible material for each row of heating elements of the grill. The length of each of the slats is at least equal to ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5474055 | Device for inhibiting increase in temperature in gas cooker A device for inhibiting an increase in temperature in a gas cooker including a cooker body, a combustion chamber defined in the cooker body and provided with an upper burner and a lower burner both constituting a grille, a manipulation unit disposed at a ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5429111 | Gas burning apparatus A gas burning apparatus detects a gas pressure existing between a nozzle for supplying gas to a burner and an adjusting valve for adjusting combustion amount by means of a pressure sensor. A central control device, including a microcomputer, drives the ad... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5197378 | Pizza screen or pan receiving and holding assembly A pizza screen or pan receiving and holding assembly for use in combination with a pizza baking oven is disclosed. The assembly includes a main frame formed of side and end rails interconnected in a generally rectangular pattern with casters provided at t... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5016606 | Gas-fired oven A gas-fired oven is disclosed wherein heated air is delivered to an oven's interior from a gas burner located outside the oven in a way to enhance the convection heating properties and capacity of the oven. This is accomplished by means of a conduit which... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4919116 | Gas burner element with universal supports A gas burner element includes a diffusion chamber and a plurality of burner arms extending from the chamber, the chamber and the arms having a plurality of holes for flowing gas therethrough. A support member is received in the underside of each of the ar... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4886044 | Infrared gas grill A hollow, upright cabinet supports therein a cooking grid and a plurality of upwardly facing gas burners which emit infrared head toward the cooking grid. A shield assembly having angled baffles is removeably mounted over the burners to shield the meat di... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4848312 | Safety accessory for a field range A safety accessory (10) used in combination with a field range (100) having a plurality of burner units (101); wherein, the safety accessory (10) includes an elongated shaft member (14) pivotally secured to the side (103) of the field range (100) and havi... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4813398 | Convection oven A gas-fired convection oven comprises a cooking cavity having a centrifugal fan mounted on a rear wall thereof. A vertical shroud mounted adjacent to the fan forms a narrow heat exchanging chamber within the cavity. A heat exchanger comprising a generally... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4776319 | Equipment for the controlled and uniform cooking of foods of lesser thicknesses Equipment for the controlled and uniform cooking of foods of lesser thickness so that cooking occurs uniformly on the whole upper surface of the food and uniformly on the whole lower surface of the food comprising a base having a hole; a lower burner disp... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4598691 | Gas oven with recessed broil burner A gas oven having a broil burner recessed up into a chamber above the ceiling to provide more usable space in the oven cavity. A partition closely above or extending from the sides of the burner forms an upper chamber duct which extends from an exhaust fl... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4321857 | Infrared gas grill A sheet metal cabinet supports a gas burner assembly below the forward portion of a shield, over which are a pair of removable primary cooking gridirons, having spaced, parallel, transversely extending U-shaped grids which cover the upper opening of the g... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4211909 | Combination microwave and gas oven A combination microwave and gas oven, in which an object to be heated is heat-treated by microwave energy and air heated by a gas burner inside a combustion chamber and forced to be circulated by a fan. A microwave introducing port to the heating cavity i... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4144869 | Domestic low temperature and warming unit A low temperature gas-fired or electrically heated oven and warming unit for domestic purposes having a chamber enclosed by walls and a door at the front. The chamber is variable in volume, for example by being vertically extensible by having overlapping,... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4092973 | Field range cabinet A field range, primarily for cooking out-of-doors, comprising a removable ter shell capable of easy and quick locking and unlocking with respect to the frame of the field range cabinet and easy removal from the frame to facilitate cleaning of the interior... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4021642 | Oven exhaust system for range with solid cooktop An electric range having a solid glass-ceramic cooktop with a baking oven positioned beneath the cooktop. The oven includes a vertical exhaust duct joined to an oven vent means associated with the top wall of the oven and extending to an exhaust opening i... | 05/03/1977 |
