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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8053707 | Barbecue grill A barbecue grill for cooking an object. The barbecue grill includes a first resistive element subassembly energizable for generating heat to cook the object, and a second resistive element subassembly energizable for generating heat to cook the object. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7973264 | Toaster oven with low-profile heating elements A toaster oven appliance including low-profile heating elements having a predetermined single-sided surface area calculated to provide uniform heating within the cooking chamber, facilitate cleaning and to increase its usable capacity is disclosed. Various alternati... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7649158 | Preform-heating furnace comprising a member for controlling the movement of a heating means between indexed positions The invention relates to a furnace (10) for heating preforms (20), of the type that comprises a preform-heating tunnel (12). According to the invention, the tunnel consists of a heating module (18) comprising vertical walls (14, 16... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7402778 | Oven for controlled heating of compounds at varying temperatures An oven is provided for curing or reflowing compounds on objects, such as lead frames or other substrates. The oven comprises a heating chamber, a heating assembly mounted in thermal communication with the heating chamber to provide heat thereto, and a support assem... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7317174 | Reconfigurable food heating apparatus A food heating or cooking appliance has at least one electrical heating element within its interior that is adjustable in position so as to be able to be moved close to thin or small food items under the control of a manually actuated control. A separator plate that... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307243 | Dynamic radiant food preparation methods and systems A continuous oven for heating a food product having an outer surface and an interior includes an enclosure with a first heating zone and a second heating zone. A conveyor is configured to convey the product from the first heating zone to the second heating zone. At ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7220945 | Oven An oven includes a main body, a toast tray, a baking pan, a door, a control panel, a bottom base and a shaft. In using, just put toasts to be baked on the toast tray and then, put the toast tray in an upper chamber of the main body and turn a change-over switch on t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217906 | Apparatus and method of toasting bread-type food products A dual function heating and toasting apparatus is provided for radiantly heating or surface toasting bread-type food products. The apparatus includes a housing defining a heating/toasting chamber. A generally vertically oriented, center fixed heating platen is dispo... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7189950 | Electric oven An electric oven capable of cooking food in a cook-top way. The electric oven according to the present invention includes a cabinet which forms an appearance of the electric oven, a cooking cavity defined inside the cabinet and having an opening front part to contai... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183520 | Oven An oven that is capable of minimizing heat transfer between adjacent cooking spaces along the wall of a cooking chamber. The oven includes an oven body having a cooking chamber, a partition to partition the cooking chamber into a plurality of cooking spaces, and ins... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7071448 | Cooking chamber partition member and electric oven having the same An electric oven includes a partition member to partition a cooking chamber into two cooking regions. The partition member for use in the electric oven includes an insulating board interposed between upper and lower plates of the partition member, and a shock-absorb... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7015440 | Microwave oven and method of controlling the same A microwave oven and a method of controlling the same, in which a cooking unit disposed in a cooking cavity is moved from an initial position to a cooking position. In the microwave oven, a magnetron is operated after heaters are moved to respective cooking position... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6936796 | Automatic toaster apparatus Automatic toaster apparatus as described including a displacing mechanism for displacing at least one of the heater plates, preferably both heater plates, towards and away from the food article in the toaster in order to accelerate the toasting thereof. According to... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930294 | Microwave oven and method of controlling the same A microwave oven and a method of controlling the same that is capable of detecting the respective positions of heaters using detectors for which a number thereof is less than a number of cooking modes. Cooking is performed with the heaters in respective horizontal p... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917018 | Electric oven with reconfigurable heating elements A food processing apparatus including a main housing, a heating compartment, first heating means and second heating means, the heating compartment being enclosed within the main housing, the first heating means being generally disposed proximal to the peripheral sur... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6878904 | Grilling station A grilling station for simultaneously grilling a variety of foods. The station includes a plurality of grilling ovens. Each of the grilling ovens has a housing with an opening for loading food into that housing. A first grilling unit is mounted in each housing for s... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6809297 | Combination rotisserie and convection oven having movable heating element A combined rotisserie and convection oven includes a cooking chamber having a first end and a second end. A fan is in fluid communication with the cooking chamber for creating an airflow in the cooking chamber, and a removable spit is rotatably suspended between the... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6723962 | Double deck toaster oven An oven having a cooking chamber which has a pair of opposing sidewalls and a rear wall member having a pair of end portions and a protruding portion between the end portions. First and second stationary heaters are located within lower and upper portions, respectiv... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6723968 | Conductive U-shaped jumper strap and method of use A conductive metal jumper strap has a plate portion with a pair of connection legs forming a u-shape. The connection legs are adapted to connect to terminals to make an electrical connection between two components of a heating device. The plate portion has a bend in... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6686567 | Cooking apparatus having heaters A cooking apparatus having a heater is disclosed. The cooking apparatus is operated in a cleaning mode to clean a cooking chamber. When the cleaning mode is selected, the heater is moved to one of various positions to afford a sufficient space to clean th... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6686568 | Cooking apparatus having heaters A cooking apparatus having heaters having a cooking chamber to be closed by a door. The cooking chamber has heaters which are extended to a first position to heat food. When the door is opened in a state of the heaters being extended to the first position... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6561081 | Automatic bread slice-toasting oven An automatic bread slice-toasting oven comprises a case, a toasting chamber, a guide rail form toasting shelf, an electrical transmission mechanism and a timing control circuit. A push rod provided with push claws is provided beneath the toasting shelf, t... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6246028 | Device for heating a blown film web, inflated into a blown film bubble between a pair of forward draw rolls and a pair of take off rolls Device for heating a blown film web, inflated into a blown film bubble between a pair of forward draw rolls and a pair of take off rolls, comprises a frame mounted, driven pair of forward draw rolls and an opposite, stationarily mounted, driven pair of ta... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6242716 | Rapid roasting oven with movable heating elements A rapid roasting oven with movable heating elements comprises a housing, a timer, a reflecting plate and at least one heating element mounted on the reflecting plate, wherein a travel mechanism is set in the housing, and the reflecting plate is coupled wi... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6184499 | Pivotable heating element for household electric cooking appliance An electric cooking appliance composed of: a frame having at least one top or bottom wall and at least one lateral wall, the walls defining a cooking enclosure; and at least one tubular heating element arranged in the cooking enclosure, in the vicinity of... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6163015 | Substrate support element A self-aligning mating structure of a substrate support element is connected to an alignment guide. The combination of the self-aligning mating structure and the alignment guide assures that the element properly seats in a complementary mating structure s... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6114665 | Oven with self-heated cooking-product support An electric oven with an oven muffle which can be closed by a door and in which a cooking-product support can be held on a holder element. The cooking-product support has its own cooking-product support heater element, and via a power supply element, the ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6091057 | Broiler oven A broiler oven has a heating chamber 2, first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 formed out of tubular heaters and rotatably supported by the inner walls of the heating chamber 2 in such a way that their heating portions 61b and 62b and their shaft port... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6008478 | Heating element support system for oven An oven having a tray forming a heating element enclosure beneath an oven liner. The heating element compartment has a rear access opening. A heating element is removably supported by the tray beneath a bottom wall of the oven liner. An access panel is pr... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6005223 | Preform heating device A preform heating device has a plurality of infrared heaters disposed horizontally and spaced apart in the axial direction of a preform carried along a carrying path which carries a preform in a state that the axial direction thereof is vertical. The pref... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5968389 | Method and machine for hybridization by refusion A method and device for hybridization of components by solder beads on a substrate using an oven, comprising: raising the temperature of a heating element of the oven, with no contact either with substrate or with component, bringing substrate into therma... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5938959 | Oven with automatically movable shelf A domestic oven includes a housing defining a cooking chamber, at least one stationary first heating element in the chamber, a shelf movably disposed in the chamber, a second heating element mounted to the shelf, and a drive operatively connected to the s... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5801357 | Electric barbecue with rotisserie An electric barbecue with rotisserie comprises a frame, a kettle placed on the frame, a resistive electric heater element and a rotary spit. A motor driving the spit is housed in a unit fixed to the frame. A drive arrangement connects the motor to the spi... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5793023 | Microwave oven having electric heating element rotatable between horizontal and vertical positions A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber, a magnetron for performing microwave cooking, and an electric heater element disposed in the cooking chamber for performing convection heat cooking. The heating element is rotatable between vertical and horizon... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5747781 | Microwave oven with turntable and swingable electrical heater A microwave oven having a heater apparatus has an upper heater installed to an upper portion of a cooking chamber for transmitting heat toward the center of the cooking chamber. A bracket is fixed to a side plate of the cooking chamber and has a pair of l... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5693246 | Microwave oven having a vertically adjustable radiant heater A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber to which a high frequency can be supplied. An electric heater is disposed in the cooking chamber for cooking by radiant heat. The heater is vertically movable by a motorized power transfer mechanism between uppe... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5549468 | Heating lamp assembly An alignment assembly for aligning heating lamps in a heating lamp assembly intended for use in an oven of a blow molding machine, the heating lamp assembly having a chassis removably positionable in at least one preselected location in the machine and in... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5534681 | Microwave oven with electric heater adjustable to different positions A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber, a magnetron for directing microwaves into the chamber, and an electric heater disposed within the cooking chamber. The heater is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis so as to be moved between horizontal... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5504310 | Microwave oven with heater cover A microwave oven having a heater and a wall structure, includes a heater cover disposed between the heater and the wall structure and a plurality of protruding portions formed on the heater cover and on a depressed portion of the wall structure, respectiv... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5021635 | Baker's oven An electrically-heated deck type baker's oven where the electric heating elements, which are U-shaped in plan view, are supported by and slidable through metal chairs in rectangular metal tubes forming a series of lower and upper passages lining the top a... | 06/04/1991 |
