Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350458 | Hanging roaster A hanging roaster combines a “drip” pan, two pan-supports for suspending the pan from a rack (typically the top rack) in an oven, and at least two skewer-supports for supporting a food-carrying skewer spaced above the pan bottom and below the top rack of the ove... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340993 | Skewer holder An improved device holds a skewer over a hot surface such as a grill or an open flame. The device preferably accommodates any type or size of skewer. It allows for skewered food to be rotated for even cooking or searing and prevents the skewered food from sticking t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7222564 | Apparatus for cooking food on skewers A roasting apparatus for cooking skewered food constituted by food and a skewer skewering the food includes a main apparatus body having a wall member forming a cooking space maintained within the food during cooking, a heater provided in such a manner that a heat-e... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7140362 | Outdoor cooking apparatus An outdoor cooking apparatus is provided which comprises: a housing having an open upper end, a closed lower end, and at least one sidewall extending between the upper and lower ends; a pipe having an open upper end and an open lower end; a cover having an opening t... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7124901 | Cooking device for cooking corn A cooking device for cooking sweet corn allows the ears of corn being cooked to be suspended within a microwave oven cavity so that the corn may be cooked in a greatly reduced time compared to conventional cooking methods, while providing even cooking results. The c... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7069842 | Barbecue grill having rotatable tools A barbecue grill device includes a container and a housing disposed on a base, a platter attached to the housing for supporting a heat source, a shaft rotatably attached to the container, and a motor driving member for driving the shaft to rotate relative to the con... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7007593 | Barbecue rack with movable and swivelable spit holders A barbecue rack with movable and swivelable spit holders comprising a hollow rack body in which a barbecue area is formed and under which a supporting base of whole set is disposed; at least one power chain in cooperation with two chain sprockets mounted at one side... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6929001 | Rotating barbecue grill A barbecue grill comprises a gridiron disk, a shaft extending from the gridiron disk so that the shaft becomes substantially perpendicular to the gridiron disk, a bowl having a channel where the shaft is detachably received through the channel, and a motor attached ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918387 | Portable campfire barrier system A portable campfire barrier system for preventing the spread of a campfire beyond an established perimeter that includes a one-piece containment wall secured in a ready-to-use configuration by a plurality of support members. When not deployed in the ready-to-use con... | 07/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6484625 | Rotisserie motor mounting device The rotisserie motor mounting device for releasably connecting a motor housing having a motor therein to a rotisserie is disclosed. The rotisserie motor mounting device has a shaft extending from one of the rotisserie and a free end selectively connectibl... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6382085 | Cooking appliance particularly useful as a multi-function toaster oven A cooking appliance particularly useful as a multi-function toaster oven includes an impaling member in its cooking compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled, and horizontally-extending electrical heaters above and below the impaling member, w... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6354195 | Rotating axle skewer sleeve of a rotisserie oven A rotating axle skewer sleeve in the present invention is provided in a rotisserie oven with the rear end receiving the protruding rod of the motor on one inner side wall of the rotisserie oven. The rotating axle skewer sleeve is provided with a right qua... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6343544 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus includes, positioned in the vicinity of a heat source and installed on a frame, a skewer support, carrying a plurality of bearings distributed about a circle, and in which may be housed, in a removable and freely rotatable manner, skew... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6250211 | Barbecue assembly with laterally movable spit arm A barbecue mechanism according to the present invention includes a lower casing member enclosing the heating medium for the cooking process. A gear driven spit arm is located above the cooking area, and is movable from a rearward position over the cooking... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6170390 | Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience, including a countertop resting box 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 in... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6038965 | Barbecue grill A portable barbecue grill apparatus has multiple functions including barbecuing, baking, roasting, and pan broiling, some of which can be accomplished simultaneously on joined cooking elements. The grill apparatus can have an extendable rear lid having a ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5974952 | Cooking apparatus Cooking apparatus includes apparatus to support food to be cooked. A housing surrounds a portion of the support apparatus and defines a portal through which food may be passed into the housing. A fireplace is disposed in the housing to support a fire that... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5711209 | Barbecue stove A barbecue stove has optionally a grill (27), a cooking lid (26) and/or an open top (4) on a heater section (1). A stove door (15) on a door end (2) of the heater section is sized and shaped for receiving heater means such as wood, coal, charcoal, gas bur... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5533440 | Rotisserie A rotisserie oven includes a plurality of spits spaced one above the other such that the upper spits are staggered slightly forwardly with respect to the lower spits. Each spit is located forward of respective curved heating plates. Fat dripping from rota... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5419249 | Barbecue grill unit A barbecue grill unit having a plurality of elongated food support units extending transversely across the open top portion of the grill body. The food support units are each simultaneously rotatable about their respective longitudinal axes. The grill uni... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5156083 | Smoke-free grill for gas ranges A simple, inexpensive, easy to use, portable grill that is fuel-efficient, eliminates flaming totally and retains the natural flavor of food being grilled is provided. The portable grill is formed by the combination of a food supporting grid placed inside... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5048401 | Barbecue apparatus and method of making the same A barbecue construction using a pair of dual-type truck wheels, one of the pair forming a lower base member and the other of the pair forming an upper firebox member. The lower wheel is disposed on an underlying ground surface with its wheel hub member fa... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4932391 | Grill device A grill device or grill kit, having a base, support post, and a cantilevered support arm, adjustably interconnected for wide accommodation of cooking or grilling situations, outdoors or even indoors in a front-loading stove or fireplace. The support arm, ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4892032 | Cooking spits A portable cooking apparatus has a pair of longitudinally elongated stanchions, a spit rod support and a motor support bracket for supporting a drive motor with its power output shaft aligned with the spit rod. A mounting bracket connects the first spit r... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4407189 | Roast spit A wire cooking rack has a horizontal rectangular supporting frame, with main panels hinged to opposing ends thereof. A locking support bracket is welded to each of the opposite ends of the rectangular frame. These brackets lock and hold the hinged panels,... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4181074 | Rotisserie and brazier The rotisserie and brazier comprises a cabinet being closed on its side walls and top and having a pair of doors hingedly mounted on its fowardmost terminal side, a firebox being a trough-like member being coextensive in width and mounted at the lower rea... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4154154 | Skewered food cooking devices Several forms of skewered food cooking devices are disclosed, each of which provides means for replaceably supporting a plurality of loaded skewers generally cantilever fashion in cooking relation to a heat source, and means for effecting rotation of each... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4112832 | Rotisserie and clockwork motor therefor Stanchions are supported vertically aligned and each carries a vertically adjustable clamp which carries two rollers which support the weight of a rotisserie spit. One clamp has a bracket which supports a clockwork motor. The motor is connected to the spi... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4043260 | Open-fire rotisserie stand A means to support a rotisserie over an outdoor open fire; the rotisserie being hung from a frame by a chain. An adjusting means is provided to raise or lower the rotisserie relative to the fire, proportional to the heat required. Levelling means is inclu... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3999472 | Convertible grilling devices A convertible grilling device of the type heated by solid fuel, in particular by charcoal, is disclosed comprising a stand, an upper frame and a removable substantially box-or parallelepiped-shaped fuel container. Said fuel container has guide pegs engage... | 12/28/1976 |
