Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7255100 | Electronic gas cooktop control with simmer system and method thereof An electronically activated gas cooktop control system, responsive to a touch-sensitive user interface, and capable of providing a predetermined range of cooking and simmer levels of BTU output, has two complementary heating modes of operation A first heating mode o... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7231917 | Gas-fired cooking apparatus with control of cooking temperature A gas-fired cooking apparatus, comprising a cooking compartment inside which one or more burners are inserted, gas supply source being suitable to supply gas to the one or more burners, further comprising elements for regulating the flow of gas that arrives from the... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7186955 | Electronic power control for cooktop heaters In one aspect, a cooktop heating system that include a first cooktop heating element, a second cooktop heating element, and an interface device. The system also includes a controller for selectively associating the interface device with any one or both of the first ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 6663009 | Gas cooker A gas cooker comprises temperature detection means for detecting the temperature of the bottom face of a pan and issuing a temperature signal and an heat control circuit for controlling the amount of heat issued from the gas burner based on said temperatu... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6554197 | Gas cooktop and vessel for the cooktop A gas cooktop includes a gas supply control controlling flames applied to a cooking vessel through a control circuit connected to an infrared sensor that is directed at an infrared-radiation-generating outer surface region of the cooking vessel and receiv... | 04/29/2003 |
| 5947370 | Apparatus and method for real time boiling point detection and control A system for monitoring and controlling the state of a thermal process. The system applies a modulated heat input to a liquid in a vessel and a thermal response measured at the bottom of the vessel provides information for real time processing of thermal ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5813320 | Gas appliance for heating and/or cooking food and the like Solenoid valves for controlling the gas flow to burners are controlled by an electronic microprocessor card by means of pulse-width modulated signals. The electronic card can receive signals from a timer to be set by the user, and from means by which the ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5639023 | Method of controlling the water temperature in a beverage-brewing apparatus The invention is directed to a method of controlling the water temperature in a beverage-brewing apparatus, wherein the water is initially heated in an open water reservoir up to the boiling point, said boiling point being reached in that the water is hea... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5310110 | Heating apparatus and heating power control method A heating apparatus by heating cooking materials in a water contained pan includes a heating device and an electronic circuit which controls the heating device. The temperature of the pan is detected, and the temperature rise characteristics of the pan co... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5096116 | Method and apparatus for controlling heating output of cooking pan As the temperature of a cooking pan is measured by a temperature detector, a moisture detecting means decides whether a material to be cooked is to be boiled, sauteed or fried. In the case of the material to be boiled, a scorching preventing device works ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4828166 | Device for regulating the heating element of a cooking vessel A device for regulating the heating element of a cooking vessel of the type with an input device for setting a preselected cooking temperature in the range of the boiling point of water, a device for measuring the temperature on or in the cooking vessel, ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4646963 | Sensing group in an automatic control temperature system for foods in vessels heated by a flame from a gas burner A sensor group in an automatic temperature control system for foods in vessels heated by a flame from a gas burner supplies a first heat quantity to a temperature sensing element within the group, as a function of the foods' temperature; and a second, sma... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4645124 | Device to compensate for an external sources' thermic effects on a sensitive element in an automatic control system of the temperature reached by foods in heated vessels A device to compensate for the thermic effects of an external source on a sensitive element in a system for automatically controlling the temperature reached by foods in heated vessels. The device includes a conventional range and a potentiometer for cont... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4492336 | Cooker with heating control system A high performance automatic temperature control system enables fries and Japanese tempura to be prepared in optimum condition. The temperature of the outer bottom surface of a container being heated is measured by a temperature sensor a given time later. A te... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4465228 | Cooker with heating control system A highly automationed cooking apparatus especially suitable for stew cooking or the like liable to boiling over. Temperature of outer bottom face of a pan is measured by a sensor and temperature gradients are sampling-measured at a sampling time pitch. Bo... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4070670 | Automatic shut-off and alarm for stove heating unit The invention relates to a safety control shut-off device for the heating element of a cooking stove. In one embodiment of this safety device, a burner plate of the stove is provided with several declining U-shaped grooves for collecting any spillage or o... | 01/24/1978 |
| 3940057 | Pressure cooking apparatus Pressure cooking apparatus using a pressure container with a sensor of the temperature or pressure in the container adapted to control a timer when a given condition is reached, the timer acting on the heating unit after a given time has expired to stop t... | 02/24/1976 |
