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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7841270 | Flip-over accessory for barbecue grill An accessory for a barbecue grill which automatically flips food over 180 degrees at desired intervals, and which allows the food to rest essentially on the existing grill rack surface when cooking. The system includes a food support rack, rack mounts, linkage, moto... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7164850 | Portable barbecue box A portable barbecue box includes a cooking chamber, a heating tube a plurality of sticks, a mechanical compartment and a motor. The heating tube is disposed inside the cooking chamber. A plurality of slots are provided on one side of the chamber so as to hold the st... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7131906 | Ready-to-cook bird product An edible bird with an internal cavity provided by removal of the visceral parts of the bird and most or all of the internal bone structure. Disposed within the cavity of the bird body, is an edible filling and heat transfer elements to transfer heat directly into t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7117866 | Multi-faceted grill A grill having a top wall design incorporating a heat source that efficiently radiates heat towards the cooking cavity but allows the escape of flue gases and hot air towards the rear of the grill to protect the user. The grill has an access to the interior of the c... | 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 |
| 6967036 | Method for cooking a pizza A cooking apparatus and method is provided which includes a rotatable food support member for supporting a food item thereon. A drive mechanism is connected to the food support member for rotating the food support member. The cooking apparatus further includes upper... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6800314 | Multi-tier rotary grill A multi-tier rotary grill for grilling and heating food items such as hot dogs, sausages, metts and similar food items. The rotary grill includes heated rollers that are arranged in vertically spaced apart roller tiers. The rollers in the multiple roller tiers lie i... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6782802 | Roller grill assembly for cooking human food A roller grill assembly for cooking human food has a plurality of horizontally aligned roller tubes which can be arranged to extend at an angle of about 3° to 5° are rotatably mounted to a housing frame. A sealing assembly comprises a bearing member and an annular... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6658991 | Barbeque grill spit assembly A rotisserie spit kit adapted to use on a barbeque grill. The rotisserie spit assembly includes a spit rod, a circular set of geared teeth, and two stud axles. It is preferred that the assembly include two spit rods. The kit also includes two brackets tha... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6644176 | Grill top cooking tool A novel grill top cooking tool is provided that contains and cooks food on a grill surface. The grilling tool is comprised of a main body with removable perforated or slotted end caps that are secured to either edge of the main body. An attaching device a... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6595114 | Pancake and egg cooking appliance The electrically-powered cooker has a base that pivotally supports a clam shell-type cooking unit having two independently pivotal cooking halves, each half being provided with its own hot plate. One or more dished recesses are provided in the bottom half... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6526876 | Handle for cookware A rotatable handle for use with an associated cookware item including an attachment member having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being rotatably secured to a first portion of the cookware item and the distal end having a gripping member... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6497174 | Cooking pan for sauteing and deglazing A cooking pan has a bottom wall, and a side wall that extends upward about a cooking surface on the bottom wall. A handle is joined at one end to the side wall, and a lower portion of the side wall next to the cooking surface and opposite the handle is fo... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6393971 | Roller grill assembly for cooking human food A roller grill assembly for cooking human food has a plurality of roller tubes rotatably mounted to a housing frame. A sealing assembly comprises a bearing member, and an annular sealing member. The bearing has a bore for receiving a roller tube. The bear... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6178877 | Portable roaster A portable roaster having a drum that is rotated either by hand or by a motor and able to roast a variety of items including fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats and seafood depending on the type of roaster drum or drum attachment used.... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6119584 | Griller A griller is provided which includes a case and a grill set mounted within the case. The case has a hollow body and electric heaters internally located with a gear box and a motor. The grill set is driven by the gear box and the case is formed having a re... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5782224 | Grill with rotating rack A first rack is connectable to a second rack to form a rack assembly adapted to hold food between the first rack and the second rack. A base is adapted to provide a source of heat to food placed between the first rack and the second rack. The base include... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5755153 | Meat roasting device A meat roasting device having an automatically rotated barbecue grill mainly comprising: a furnace frame, a barbecue grill, and a driving device, wherein said driving device is fixed on the support plate of the furnace frame, and is engageable with a barb... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5682810 | Brazier for cooking foodstuffs A brazier for cooking foodstuffs includes a support for the foodstuffs that is mounted on a swivelling frame in such a way as to be able to turn around its own axis, in front of a source of heat, when operated by a drive mechanism. The swivelling frame tu... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5660101 | Rotatable cooking apparatus A rotatable cooking apparatus of five main parts: a fire box, a charcoal grill, a rotary transmission system, a cam mechanism, and a food basket. The food basket comprises two grills foldable on top of one another so that food can be secured between them.... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5598769 | Cooking oven A cooking oven has a housing and walls which enclose an oven chamber in which a rotisserie supports food to be cooked. The heat for cooking the food derives from a burner having a plenum and tiles in front of the plenum, with the tiles being exposed to th... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5590584 | Barbecue A barbecue appliance capable of cooking a variety of foods by disposing a rotary grill in which food is held vertically within a cooking chamber between heating members provided therein and rotating the rotary grill between the heating members, so that an... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5567457 | Method for treating feed grains An improved process for treating grain used for animal feeds includes steps of conditioning the grain to soften the grain coats, quickly heating the grain to a temperature just below a temperature sufficient to cause the grains to burst, compressing the h... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5404798 | Apparatus for cooking foods An apparatus for roasting foods comprises a chamber (1) provided with a vertical opening (2), a heat source (3), located internally of the chamber (1), a support (4) rotatable about a vertical axis (Z) adjacent to the opening (2) which support (4) rotates... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5095813 | Apparatus for pressing and baking dough discs A pair of cooperating heating and pressing plates for converting a ball of dough into a flat baked disc, such as a tortilla, are mounted between vertical side frames of a supporting frame structure. The one heating and pressing unit is fixedly mounted at ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5094155 | Continuous cooking grill A continuous cooking grill is provided which includes a heating element for supplying radiant heat to food items passing therebetween along a conveyor which is preferably provided with a series of intercalated rods oriented transversely to the direction o... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4944282 | Grill apparatus A grill apparatus to be used in conjunction with ovens that include a heat source and an upper opening. The grill apparatus is rotably mounted within a support frame that is pivotally mounted to the oven so that it can be brought within the opening and ex... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4838153 | Method and apparatus for forming and baking flat, thin discs of dough A combination pressing and initial baking system is provided for converting balls of dough into thin, flat discs, such as tortillas. A box-like support structure is provided having a portion of its frontal wall open and defining a mounting for a first hea... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4751876 | Method and apparatus for baking thin dough discs A baking oven embodying the method of this invention comprises a plurality of vertically stacked, vertically spaced heated baking plates. Every other one of the baking plates is periodically shifted from a horizontal baking position to an inclined dischar... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4724755 | Apparatus for forming and baking flat, thin discs of dough A combination pressing and baking mechanism is provided for converting balls of dough into thin, flat discs, such as tortillas. The pressing unit comprises a pair of relatively pivotally movable heated pressing plates. The lowermost pressing plate is disp... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4686894 | Continuous cooking grill A cooker for continuous grilling of hamburger patties and the like uses a shiftable grid which intermittently lifts the patties off a stationary grid and effects advancement after each lift-off until a U-shaped path is traversed extending initially throug... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4667589 | Hamburger broiler A double pass, double conveyor broiler apparatus and method for efficiently cooking large numbers of relatively large hamburger patties is disclosed. The apparatus includes two burners and two conveyors, with one conveyor conveying patties past one burner... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4583451 | Apparatus for automatically cooking products made of batter, such as pancakes Products made of batter, such as pancakes, are automatically cooked on a continuous elongated, continuously advanced heated conveyor belt. A dispenser adjacent one end of the belt dispenses individual masses of the batter onto the belt to form the individ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4523520 | Meat processing equipment A continuous meat processing line having a patty-forming machine at the inlet end, a cooking portion, a transfer section, a quick freeze section and a packing section at the outlet end. The cooking portion has a first cooking section adjacent to the patty... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4508025 | Tortilla press and oven unit A compact tortilla press and oven unit. The press delivers formed tortillas to the oven wherein they are toasted on a plurality of rotating oven discs. The tortilla is initially received by a first oven disc upon which a first side of the tortilla is part... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4479422 | Sliding and pivoting invertible grill A base is provided including opposite ends and opposite side guide assemblies extending between the opposite ends. A pair of grill panels are provided and include first and second corresponding remote marginal portions and pivot structure is provided pivo... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4244284 | Meat cooking apparatus Cooking apparatus for preparing meats to suit individual tastes of different consumers. The meat is subjected to electric current heating to cook the meat and to radiant broiling to char its surface. The cooking current passing through the meat is regulat... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4213380 | Cooking machine A cooking machine for making hamburgers which includes a pair of aligned ovens and a conveyor adapted to travel separate spaced hamburger patties over the top of the oven, a dispenser is provided at one end of the conveyor run and intermediate the run, a ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4088360 | Kitchen utensil A culinary article for turning over foods such as eggs, without flipping them, has a spatula section to pick up the food, a curved surface over which the food next slides to partially turn it over, an opposing, coacting curved surface which receives the f... | 05/09/1978 |
| 3993788 | Continuous high-speed cooking and cooling method using pre-heated ingredients and predetermined radiant heating patterns for the production of tortillas and similar products A method and system for continuous high-speed commercial cooking and cooling using pre-heated dough ingredients for making products such as tortillas, provides predetermined specific heating patterns in an infrared cooking sequence which assures consisten... | 11/23/1976 |
