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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6073543 | Food roasting apparatus A food roasting apparatus is disclosed, comprising a pot having: a base wall and a cylindrical sidewall contiguous therewith, the base wall and sidewall defining a pot surface, the sidewall surrounding a central pot axis and extending upwardly from the ba... | 06/13/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5964212 | Kettle rotisserie A barbecue rotisserie apparatus comprising a conventional barbecue apparatus and a novel rotisserie apparatus. The rotisserie apparatus comprises a ring having a substantially U-shaped cross section, rollers that are rotatably secured within their axis of... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5910332 | Rotisserie broiler A rotary broiler assembly includes a rotisserie structure rotatable about a fixed axis. The rotisserie structure has a holding device radially spaced from the axis for holding a food item such as chicken thereon. When the rotisserie structure is rotated, ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5483947 | Grill hood An improved hood for a cooking apparatus, such as an outdoor barbecue grill. The hood includes integrally formed hinges on the sides thereof comprising a pin-in-saddle assembly. The hood also includes a stop for limiting the rearward travel of the lid wit... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5410950 | Adjustable rotisserie There is provided an adjustable rotisserie having a fire bowl containing a heat source. An elongated rotatable shaft including a pair of prongs attached thereto for holding the food to be cooked is located above the fire bowl. A frame assembly which may b... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5261388 | Cooking grill A cooking grill for cooking food with heat supplied by a heat source within the grill includes a substantially rectangular box structure which defines an open top chamber, and a lid which is connected to the box structure and is adapted to cover the chamb... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5205207 | Multimodal rotisserie A lower housing defines an elongated heat chamber with side-mounted longitudinally extended linear gas burners which heat the space in the chamber and also edibles mounted on a longitudinal spit which rotates at about the top of the housing. Removable cov... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4960100 | Conveyor oven A versatile conveyor oven effective to product a variety of different cooking conditions therein is described. The oven includes an elongated cabinet defining a cooking chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port with a conveyor extending through the ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4944284 | Portable stove The invention relates to a portable stove and provides for the use of a horizontal platform on which a vertically oriented cylindrical housing is positioned. A plurality of burners are secured adjacent a lower portion of the housing, the burners being con... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4805588 | Over and under radiant broiler oven An oven having at least one and preferably upper and lower burner radiants protected from food splatterings and drippings by transparent tiles coextensive with and separating the burner radiants from the oven chamber, the transparent tiles being of heat r... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4770091 | Rotisserie interlock A rotisserie accessory is provided for use with a cooking appliance having an airflow grill. Locking apparatus prevents rotational operation of a spit portion when the rotisserie accessory is improperly positioned on the cooking appliance.... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4627410 | Barbecue grill A cooking oven which comprises a pair of opposing end walls, a pair of opposing side walls, the side walls disposed inside of the end walls and defining, together with the end walls, a cooking chamber, a supporting frame adapted to support the end walls a... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4574689 | Compact barbecue oven A highly compact oven for preparing barbecued foods on a commercial basis includes a cabinet having a vertical partition wall that divides its interior into an oven chamber and an equipment compartment, and doors which provide access to the oven chamber. ... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4535750 | Broiler oven There is provided a new and useful broiler oven comprising an elongated cooking compartment, first and second rotisserie drive drums, and a dual drive unit, the cooking compartment defined by bottom and rear walls, a front wall including a door, and first... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4483241 | Combination rotisserie-shish kebab accessory A free-standing combination rotisserie and shish kebab accessory is provided which includes a three-walled box having a pair of wire frame members such that the two end walls fold flat for storage when the side wall is removed. A motor driven spit can be ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4469019 | Barbecue grill A barbecue grill comprising a fire bowl, legs for supporting the fire bowl, a cooking grill above the fire bowl rotatable about a generally vertical axis, and a rod which is selectively mountable in a generally horizontal position above the cooking grill ... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4462306 | Adjustable cooking grill An outdoor cooking grill having a bottom grate supported in an iron framework with a food grill of parallel heat conductive bars capable of being raised and lowered relative to the grate. The apparatus includes a curved heat reflective back plate providin... | 07/31/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4409452 | High-frequency heating appliance A cooking appliance including both a resistive heating element and a high-frequency wave source such as a microwave generator in which a metal skewer is easily insertable through a front opening in a heating chamber and in which changes in dimensions in s... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4403595 | Barbecue grill A barbecue grill using a longitudinally extended cage of metal strips for retaining combustible material during combustion and connected to supports for carrying rotatable spits at a plurality of positions around the periphery of the cage.... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4300523 | Barbecue oven An oven that is particularly suited for preparing barbecued foods with minimal consumption of wood includes a housing that encloses an oven chamber and an apertured firebox that extends into the oven chamber from one of the housing walls. The firebox is c... | 11/17/1981 |
