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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7487716 | Rotisserie oven A rotisserie oven is provided having a radiating heating system in combination with a convection heating system to prepare raw meat and poultry food product inside of a cooking chamber. A spit assembly carries the food product, and includes components that are detac... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7325484 | Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience 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... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7210403 | Flair-up resistant front loading roasting system A flair-up resistant front loading roasting system for roasting large quantities safely with a reduced potential for grease induced flair-ups during cooking. The system includes a roasting enclosure adapted for receiving meat to be roasted. The roasting enclosure ha... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6837150 | Food cooking rotisserie Enclosed rotisserie including a rear mounted heating element and a power rotated dual rod spit assembly. The spit assembly may also be mounted at various distances from the heating element to decrease cooking times. The open front of the enclosure is from time to ti... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6782805 | Food cooking rotisserie Enclosed rotisserie including a rear mounted heating element and a power rotated dual rod spit assembly. The spit assembly may also be mounted at various distances from the heating element to decrease cooking times. The open front of the enclosure is from time to ti... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6568315 | Rotisserie and spit assembly 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... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6536334 | Spit assembly for rotisserie oven Enclosed rotisserie including a rear mounted heating element and a power rotated dual rod spit assembly. The spit assembly may also be mounted at various distances from the heating element to decrease cooking times. The open front of the enclosure is from... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6422136 | Rotisserie cooking oven 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 straig... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6393972 | Rotisserie oven having tracks for loading a spit assembly 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 straig... | 05/28/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6253665 | Spit basket for rotisserie oven 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 straig... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6250214 | Spit rod assembly 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 straig... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6240838 | Dual spit rotisserie assembly and method of cooking therewith 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 driver spit assembly may be easily inserted and removed straig... | 06/05/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6142064 | Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience 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 straig... | 11/07/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5799569 | Roasting oven spit and mounting structure A spit assembly for a roasting oven includes an oven housing for receiving food items and retaining heat; a heating element mounted to radiate heat within the housing; a first spit mounting plate; a second spit mounting plate substantially parallel to and... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5720217 | Rotisserie apparatus for cooking food items A rotisserie apparatus and method of cooking food items are provided. The rotisserie apparatus includes a housing containing a heat source for supplying heat to an area above the housing. A plurality of spit supports are positioned on the housing, and ext... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5665258 | Vertical electric-heating oven A vertical electric heating oven is provided which includes an oven body incorporating a shell, a reflecting container, a door, a base, and an electric heater, a driver, a rotary rack, and a vertical rack assembly. The electric heater is located verticall... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5639497 | Cooking control system for rotisserie ovens A cooking apparatus for automatically cooking and rotating a food product which comprises: a cooking chamber; a planetary assembly disposed within the cooking chamber which is capable of rotating the food product about the cooking chamber; a heater or bur... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5562022 | Oven system The invention is an oven system for roasting, cooking, baking and regenerating, as well as for grilling foodstuffs by supplying heat into a cooking space of the oven. The oven system includes at least one slide-in frame movable into and out of the cooking... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5473977 | Planetary spit arrangement A planetary gear system for rotating spits in a rotisserie device. The system includes a gearing plate mounted to a wall in the rotisserie. The gearing plate includes a plurality of projections which extend inwardly into the interior of the rotisserie. A ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5471915 | Skewer driver for rotisserie An easy to clean and sanitize skewer driver for driving the horizontally supported skewer in the rotisserie oven for roasting chickens and other food products is formed from an outer and an inner sleeve where the inner sleeve is affixed to a planet gear a... | 12/05/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5184540 | Cooking apparatus with rotisserie and reclamation trap Cooking apparatus that uses a housing with a fireplace to support a fire for cooking food. A spit for supporting food is rotatably connected to the housing and receives heat generated from the fire in the fireplace. The spit may include at least three dri... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5136933 | Rotary orbital rotisserie A rotary orbital rotisserie has a rack structure for skewering chickens and other meat to be barbecued or roasted, with the individual spits of the rotisserie being not only rotational about their own axes, but orbital around the main rotisserie axis as w... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4867051 | Barbeque grill apparatus A barbeque grill apparatus having a container with a curved bottom, two sides connected to the bottom and two ends interconnecting the bottom and the sides. A shaft is rotatably attached to a top portion of the container and a plurality of arms extend rad... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4659890 | Process and apparatus for microwave heating foods The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for heating foods oblong in shape. This apparatus comprises a reheating enclosure with a microwave source and an inclined preferably circular plate rotatably mounted substantially at its center on a driv... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4571474 | Microwave oven rotisserie and stirrer Rotisserie/stirrer for microwave ovens having a generally cylindrical food holding container mounted in an inclined position for rotation about both its own axis and a vertically extending axis. Peripheral gear teeth at the lower end of the container mesh... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4438684 | Kinetic fireplace and spit roaster A kinetic fireplace having a hearth formed by a horizontal grate surrounded by vertical bars and supported by downwardly extending carrying legs which rest on a horizontal carrying plate having a depending axle. The lower end of the axle is coupled to a p... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4421016 | Cooking apparatus A barbecue in which there is a deep box with means in the base to hold burning coals and means to effect continuous turning of a food holding means arranged so that food is held in pieces and is balanced in symmetrical manner about the pivot axis and the ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4366750 | Rotary skewer cooker A cooker of the type having a series of vertically oriented skewers disposed in a circle about a central vertically oriented heating element, the skewers being individually rotatable relative to the heating element. In this rotary skewer cooker environmen... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4286133 | Bi-rotational microwave oven turntable/rotisserie A bi-rotational microwave oven turntable/rotisserie having a turntable which is moved in a closed path within the oven cavity while being concurrently rotated about a central axis of the turntable. A rotisserie device is associated with the turntable and ... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4270444 | Spit roaster A spit roaster includes a ventilating caged-like housing within which there is positioned a horizontal rotatable table. An electric motor is located below the table and is adapted to rotate the same. A conical member is carried centrally of the table and ... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4214516 | Barbecue oven A barbecue oven comprising a barbecue compartment having a door hingedly mounted in a door opening in a front wall of the compartment and spaced from a top and bottom wall thereof. A heating unit is provided in the barbecue compartment and having an elong... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4078478 | Rotisserie device A rotisserie device is provided for use in barbecuing various food items, such as cuts of meat or the like. The device includes an elongated skeletal frame assembly which is mounted so as to rotate about its longitudinal axis over burning coals, electric ... | 03/14/1978 |