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A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| 7378617 | Heating systems and methods for a cooking appliance A heating system for a cooking appliance includes a first upper heating element and a second upper heating element positioned within a cooking cavity defined by a cabinet of the cooking appliance. The cooking cavity is configured to support a food item therein durin... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372000 | Air control for a brick oven A food cooking oven has a front door, a back wall opposite the front door, and two side walls connecting the front door to the back wall. The oven also has a rear divider parallel to and spaced apart from the back wall, the rear divider running between the side wall... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7342202 | Electric grill An electric cooking assembly includes a main body portion that defines a cooking area. First and second cooking surfaces are contained within the cooking area. A first electric heating element arranged to provide heat to at least a portion of the first cooking surfa... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339137 | Electric grilling appliance A food heating appliance is disclosed that comprises a chamber portion and a lid portion that defines a heating chamber. The chamber portion has a perimeter wall extending about the heating chamber and an upper opening into the heating chamber. The perimeter wall is... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7279659 | Non-food warmer appliance A non-food warmer apparatus includes an enclosure having sides, a top, and a bottom defining a chamber. A drawer structure has a support member to support objects. The drawer structure is coupled to the enclosure for movement between a retracted position to warm the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7223944 | Oven temperature control system An oven temperature control system for an oven cell having a top heating element with two separate heating conductors in a top portion of the oven cell, a bottom heating element with two separate heating conductors in a bottom portion of the oven cell, and a convect... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220945 | Oven An oven includes a main body, a toast tray, a baking pan, a door, a control panel, a bottom base and a shaft. In using, just put toasts to be baked on the toast tray and then, put the toast tray in an upper chamber of the main body and turn a change-over switch on t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7185289 | Device and method for changing languages on a display A device having a display unit for displaying a first screen for changing a display language and a second screen having an optional item for displaying a language change screen wherein the optional item is displayed in a predetermined language. ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7166821 | Radiant convection warming drawer A warming drawer has a cabinet defining a cavity and a tray that slides into and out of the cavity. An infrared heating lamp is positioned within the cabinet to heat the cavity, and a fan is supported by the cabinet and is configured to circulate air from the cavity... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7129446 | Reflow device A device is provided to heat the whole heated surface of a carried member carried intermittently with a temperature change over time maintained constant. The device controls the driving of a belt-conveyer so that a heater moves in a carrying direction at a carry tim... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122765 | Electric oven A self-supporting removable box-like liner for use in an electric oven that has a heating element supported in a plane and extending across a cooking chamber from one said side wall to the other. The liner has an open the front, a pair of liner side walls and a back... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7102106 | Domestic appliances A kettle is described having a pair of heating elements each connected to a cable with a plug at its end. The two plugs can be inserted into two separate sockets of a wall plug so that each heating element separately receives power from the sockets. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094991 | Electric food warming system and method A device is disclosed for warming tortillas and other foods. The device operates with a standard electric alternating current ranging from 110 to 120 volts in the US and 220v–240v in other countries. This appliance is to be used in homes or in businesses for the p... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7066731 | Method for conditioning/heat treatment A method for heat treatment of printing plates includes arranging a plurality of printing plates into a stack, interspersing a plurality of thermally conductive plates at a plurality of levels in the stack, and placing the stack of plurality of printing plates with ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7060943 | Cooking apparatus having heaters A cooking apparatus having heaters and a cooking chamber defined in the cooking apparatus, the heaters are provided in the cooking chamber, and two or more buttons are provided representing different cooking temperatures. A temperature of the cooking chamber is set ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7041940 | Power management systems and methods A cooking platform includes at least one surface heating element having a first power consumption level and an oven located under the surface heating element. The oven includes a first heating element having a second power consumption level and a second heating elem... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038175 | Method and apparatus for a self-cleaning oven An oven assembly that includes a first oven cavity including a self-cleaning feature, a first pair of opposing walls, and a second pair of opposing walls, wherein the walls are coupled together to define a first volume within the first oven cavity, and a second oven... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036424 | High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy fr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7019265 | Turntable incorporating heating means and oven incorporating the same A turntable (19) for an oven comprising a surface for heating a food item (27, 75) placed on the turntable (19), wherein the turntable (19) is provided with integral heating means (29). The turntable may be incorporated into an ove... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012220 | Alpha-numeric data entry and display for electronic oven control system A cooking appliance employing rapid cook technology includes an electronic oven control system employing an alpha-numeric data entry and display arrangement. The cooking appliance includes a display which incorporates a series of vertically spaced information displa... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000433 | Device for heating plates of glass A device for heating plates of glass (3) which are hardened or deformed, includes two ceramic heating plates (1) between which a plate of glass (3) is arranged. Compensation plates (20) are associated with the heating plates (1) at... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998578 | Baking system for plasma display panel and layout method for said system A baking system for a plasma display panel which comprises a clean room 1 and a baking furnace having an upper passage 11 for conveying a plasma display panel glass substrate 5 during baking from an inlet 15 of the furnace 3, and a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6984125 | Apparatus for manufacturing electronic device, method of manufacturing electronic device, and program for manufacturing electronic device A reflow process is provided for multiple units which improves productivity. A reflow furnace is moved along a transport direction of a tape substrate and is fixed at a position matching the product pitch of a circuit substrate. Any of a plurality of heating blocks ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6949720 | Bottom electric heating element system for ovens A bottom electric heating element for an oven wherein the electric heating element is positioned in a recessed portion in the oven bottom and has at least one corrugated ribbon of conductive material partially embedded in an insulating base. A glass panel is positio... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6936794 | Apparatus for controlling the drying of previously baked goods A merchandiser for displaying and warming previously baked dough products, such as a filled pastry shell or other baked dough product, under controlled drying conditions, including an enclosure having one or more wall members that define an interior space, with at l... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6922033 | Barbeque cover support device A cooking apparatus for controlling the opening of a cover over a barbecue grill includes a motor for opening and closing the cover over the barbecue grill, with the motor connected to the cover by a coupling rod. The cooking apparatus includes, in one embodiment, a... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917017 | Counter-top cooker having multiple heating elements A counter-top cooker includes a base, a cooking chamber having a top end and a bottom end supported on the base, and a power head attached to the top end of the cooking chamber. The power head includes a heating element and a fan for directing airflow over the heati... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917018 | Electric oven with reconfigurable heating elements A food processing apparatus including a main housing, a heating compartment, first heating means and second heating means, the heating compartment being enclosed within the main housing, the first heating means being generally disposed proximal to the peripheral sur... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6841760 | Multiple current supply control system for a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes an oven cavity, an electric heating system having a plurality of electric heat loads for heating the oven cavity, and a controller. The controller includes a memory module having stored therein at least first and second control algorithm... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6818869 | Multiple panel oven having individual controls for combined conductive and radiant heating panels A multiple panel cooking oven having individual controls for combined conductive and radiant heating. Each panel comprises an upper heating element for conductive heating and a lower heating element for radiant heating to obtain uniform baking within a zone between ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6768085 | Medical solution warming system and method of heating and maintaining medical solutions at desired temperatures A temperature controlled system according to the present invention includes a housing with a compartment defined therein that includes a heating assembly with a generally ‘U’-shaped heating plate and corresponding heater. The heating plate is configured to evenl... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6730882 | Child-safe door latching system for a cooking appliance A cooking appliance, such as a range, includes a cabinet within which is arranged an oven cavity that is adapted to be selectively closed by a pivotable door. A latching mechanism is provided to interconnect the door and the cabinet. The latching mechanism is movabl... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727478 | Multi rack oven and methods for operating same An oven includes an oven cavity, at least one heat source disposed in the cavity, and an oven controller operationally coupled to the heat source. The oven controller is configured to accept data regarding a number of racks and control the at least one heat source b... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6692576 | Wafer support system A wafer support system comprising a segmented susceptor having top and bottom sections and gas flow passages therethrough. A plurality of spacers projecting from a recess formed in the top section of the susceptor support a wafer in spaced relationship wi... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6639187 | Toaster with movable food support and movable doors with windows A vertical toaster comprising a housing, heating elements, a food support and a drive. The heating elements are connected to the housing and comprise at least one calrod. The calrod comprises an electric wire surrounded by heat conductive electrical insul... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6607766 | Cooked food staging device and method A cooked food staging device and method is provided. The cooked food staging device allows previously cooked food items, particularly sandwich fillings such as hamburger patties, fish fillets, biscuits, Canadian bacon, pork sausage, eggs, chicken patties,... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6545251 | Cooking oven A cooking oven comprises a cavity having a separating and insulating plate which can be inserted horizontally in the cavity in order to split it in two sub-cavities. Each sub-cavity has heating elements on its side walls. The oven sub-cavities can be sing... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6541738 | Portable food container with incorporated heaters A portable food container with incorporated heaters including a container portion. The container portion includes a first cover member hingeably coupled with the back wall for covering the open upper end. The container portion includes a second cover memb... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6524100 | Facility for the thermal treatment of workpieces A facility for the thermal treatment of workpieces has a processing or heating chamber and at least one transport device, extending essentially completely through the processing or heating chamber, with which the workpieces to be treated can be transporte... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6506994 | Low profile thick film heaters in multi-slot bake chamber A heating chamber assembly for heating or maintaining the temperature of at least one wafer, employs thick film heater plates stacked at an appropriate distance to form a slot between each pair of adjacent heater plate surfaces. The heating chamber assemb... | 01/14/2003 |
