Wagon Patents (Class 126/268)
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Patent number: 11572172Abstract: A galley cart has a rear wall with an inlet port and an outlet port. A first divider has a first edge, wherein a first distance is defined between the first edge and a front wall. A second divider has a second edge, wherein a second distance is defined between the second edge and the front wall. The second distance is less than the first distance for control of the flow of cooling air.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael J. Burgess, James P. Schalla
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Patent number: 11253098Abstract: A steaming system is for steaming food. The steaming system including a base component adapted for receiving fluid therein, the base component being adapted to cooperate with a steam generating apparatus configured to heat up said fluid to produce steam. The steaming system also includes at least one steaming component includes a steaming compartment adapted to contain food to be steamed, the at least one steaming component being operatively mounted on the base component and being in fluid communication therewith. The steaming system is operable in a steaming configuration where the components are stacked onto one another to allow circulation of steam from the base component to the steaming compartment. The steaming system is further operable in a storage configuration where the base component is contained within the steaming compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: LES PROMOTIONS ATLANTIQUES INC.Inventors: Patrick Dion, Mason Ho
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Patent number: 10604055Abstract: A motor vehicle (1) having a driver's position (2), having a device (3) adjacent thereto for processing, in particular for assembling, food, and having an oven device (4) for heating foods is designed so that at least the device (3) for processing, in particular assembling, foods is arranged in a section (6) which is separate from the driver's position (2) and which has at least one access option (8) for the driver.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Zume Pizza, Inc.Inventor: Joachim Eismann
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Publication number: 20140338655Abstract: A universal portable kitchen package is provided for use with aid relief in a disaster zone. A self-sufficient kitchen package includes: a portable kitchen unit that has a sink attached to a drainage hose, a storage space and a workspace; an external firebox; an external water filtration system; a survival kit; a set of basic kitchen utensils and other additional elements which would be needed for survival of a family of 4-6 persons in a distress zone or inside small housing/infrastructure. The portable kitchen unit comprises three compartments: a utility compartment under the sink area, a food compartment and a supply compartment under the countertop workspace. The portable kitchen unit is disposed on detachable wheels. Undercarriage height provides maximum clearance when the portable kitchen unit is transported on the ground. A push-bar can be provided to aid in the pushing of the kitchen unit, and the bar can also act as a towel rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventor: Mark DOYLE
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Patent number: 8820313Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a trailer that can be stored compactly for transport to and from tailgating events. The custom tailgating and team entertainment trailer can be transported to a sporting event where tailgating is promoted, or hauled behind the family car to a children's team event. The customized trailer is formed from a steel frame shaped similar to a conventional 4×6 utility trailer upon which various kitchen equipment and appliance are supported and provides a 2000 pound gross vehicle weight rating for easy mobility and towing from a standard 1?? hitch ball. A flat upper panel encloses the equipment when stored, and provides a horizontal support surface when deployed. A event grill is rollably deployed from behind a door on the trailers first side and, when extended, provides a five foot wide, four burner grilling surface provided with cooking fuel from pair of LP propane tanks mounted to a tank rack positioned for easy accessability and control at the trailer's front end.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Inventor: Eugene Lutes
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Publication number: 20130319399Abstract: A mobile kitchen comprises a housing disposed atop one or more wheel axles and a plurality of appliances disposed within the housing. Each appliance is heated by combustion of a distillate fuel. One or more air channels are disposed about each of the appliances, such that each air channel substantially isolates excess heat from combustion of the distillate fuel from a workspace within the housing. One or more first air blowers are associated with the air channels, and each is adapted to force air through the air channels and vent the excess heat to the exterior of the housing. One or more second air blowers are coupled to the housing, and each second air blower is adapted to vent a predetermined volume of air from within the workspace at least once per minute.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Robert S. Babington, Victor Worsley, Luther Barnes, Larry Viverette, Ramiro Andrade, Juan C. Lemus
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Patent number: 8499755Abstract: A mobile kitchen comprises a housing disposed atop one or more wheel axles and a plurality of appliances disposed within the housing. Each appliance is heated by combustion of a distillate fuel. One or more air channels are disposed about each of the appliances, such that each air channel substantially isolates excess heat from combustion of the distillate fuel from a workspace within the housing. One or more first air blowers are associated with the air channels, and each is adapted to force air through the air channels and vent the excess heat to the exterior of the housing. One or more second air blowers are coupled to the housing, and each second air blower is adapted to vent a predetermined volume of air from within the workspace at least once per minute.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Babington EnterprisesInventors: Robert S. Babington, Juan C. Lemus, Ramiro Andrade, Larry Viverette, Luther Barnes, Victor Worsley
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Patent number: 7836876Abstract: An apparatus for transporting and storing cooked food and one-course meals includes a box-shaped, upright container with wheels and at least one pivoting front door. The container can be closed by the front door in an air-tight manner. The container has at least one air valve toward the outside that can be closed and opened, in addition to a device for measuring and storing and displaying the temperature and pressure inside the closed container, so that temperature and pressure can be read from outside of the container. Data can be read by a personal computer and presented in the form of diagrams, as a function of time, over a period of at least 14 days. The cooked food is, initially, cooled at a temperature of between 2° C. and 4° C., and is then exposed to a vacuum for enabling the cooked food to be kept fresh for up to 14 days.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Technikus AGInventor: Walter Schellenberg
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Patent number: 7832780Abstract: The present invention features a portable kitchen apparatus for attaching to a vehicle comprising a foldable countertop having a sink basin hole, a stove hole, a sink basin, a stove, and a flame protector. The portable kitchen apparatus may be used for outdoor cooking and/or cleaning while camping.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Inventor: Timothy A. Ramseyer
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Patent number: 7263990Abstract: A mobile cooking apparatus is configurable and automatically controlled to regulate the cooking temperature. The cooking apparatus is configurable as to fuel source (liquid propane or charcoal), and the temperature control is adaptable to the selected fuel. Additionally, smoke flavor may be optionally used, and various adjuncts such as a rotisserie, grill and deep fryer may be included.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventor: Philip R. Lenhart
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Patent number: 6953336Abstract: A gas stove with a burner and gas container is configured such that the gas container is thermally conductively connected with a burner part that is heated during operation. The thermally conductive connection is achieved via a thermally conductive housing that accommodates the gas container. This ensures a reliable burner operation despite an endothermic gas expansion in the gas container.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Karl Heinz Forytta, Frank Drenkow, Johannes Gretencord, Burkhard Krüper, Jozef Ninc, Erny Huberty, Renate Reddigau, Uwe Reddigau
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Patent number: 6813995Abstract: A draft chimney for a convection based apparatus. The draft chimney comprises a flue at least partially defining a path of convection airflow through at least a portion of the interior of a cabinet. The flue passes convection airflow to the exterior of the cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Inventor: Jimmy A. Sikes
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Patent number: 6672301Abstract: Apparatus for keeping hot and for transporting prepared dishes, in particular pizzas, from the producer to the consumer, using a motor vehicle equipped with a thermally insulated container, which in its lower portion is provided with a heat exchanger using which the heat supplied by an external source is transmitted to the air in the container by heat conduction and radiation, characterised in that the container is laid out as an essentially square box at the bottom of which the heat exchanger is incorporated. One of the four lateral walls of the box is linked to the box, forming a door which is sealed and gives access to the container. The other three lateral walls and the top cover of the box are laid out as double walls enclosing air interspaces, which on their sides are all mutually interconnected and towards the front, towards the access door, are connected to the inner chamber of the container.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Inventors: Roberto Delzanno, Lorenzo Delzanno
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Patent number: 6591831Abstract: A portable and collapsible chafing system includes a frame forming a well configured to hold a chafing container. Underlying the frame is a heating device holder in the form of a platform pivotally connected to the frame. The chafing system includes legs pivotally connected to the frame for movement between a first collapsed position and a second position in which legs extend from and elevate the frame. Wheels are associated with each leg to render the system mobile.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Inventor: Patrick Allen Reynolds
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Patent number: 6557547Abstract: A portable cooking or barbequing apparatus includes a support frame having a front end with a tow hitch mechanism and ground engaging wheels mounted on opposite sides of the frame. A main housing is mounted on the frame and has vertically extending side walls and an open top. A plurality of smaller housing, each containing a gas burner, are fixedly mounted in the main housing. These smaller housings each have a bottom, vertically extending opposite side walls and opposite end walls connecting the side walls. A gas supply system provides fuel gas to the burners and a burner control system operates the gas burners and controls the flow of fuel gas to the burners. A main lid is preferably pivotally mounted on the main housing to cover its open top.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Move Media Inc.Inventor: Ian Joseph MacIntosh
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Publication number: 20020043259Abstract: A raisable and lowerable platform that houses a removable charcoal or gas grill and a removable cooler chest, with a storage compartment between the two, a telescoping flagpole mounted to the platform to display team colors, and a fold down table attached on both ends of the platform to provide more cooking area. In the preferred embodiment to date the platform is connected to a wheeled scissors lift system that is used to raise and lower the platform. The apparatus is carried and transported via a rollered receiver hitch assembly that is an integral part of the scissors lift system and that is conventionally mountable on a transport vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventor: Daniel A. Brennan
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Patent number: 6354286Abstract: A barbeque grill attachment assembly adapted and structured to secure a barbeque grill to the rear of a vehicle so that the grill may be used without detachment from the vehicle is disclosed. The grill assembly permits the barbeque grill to swing in a horizontal arc from its operational position farthest from the rear of the vehicle to a stowed position adjacent the rear of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Inventor: Bob Davis
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Patent number: 6293272Abstract: This invention describes a grill cabinet with a small footprint when stored. The cabinet holds at least one swing-out shelves that contains a cooking burner that can be used to cook warm foods, and at least one standard pull-out drawer which can hold cooking supplies or for preparing foods. A smoker oven can be added in the base of the cabinet. The cabinet has an area that can hold a small bottle of LP gas, valves and gas supply lines, as well as the smoker.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Inventor: Uwe Harneit
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Patent number: 6267111Abstract: My invention, the “Portable Self-Contained Mobile Vending Unit,” revolutionizes the single chafing dish equipment used by caterers as well as the small steam table used by food vendors in a mobile vending “hot cart.” Caterers as well as mobile food vendors can offer their customers a complete professional looking buffet style set-up of foods, indoor or outdoor, with a minimal amount of set-up. Another benefit is that the equipment is lightweight as well as durable, and requires no maintenance. The expansion of the standard style mobile vending “hot cart” from one or two full chafing dish compartments to as many as seven additional full size portable steam pans, offers a food operator endless potential. Additionally, the self-contained style saves the food caterer from setting up a separate table to accommodate his separate chafing dishes.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Inventor: William Hendricks Burton
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Patent number: 5640949Abstract: A portable barbecue grill assembly can be readily attached to the trailer receiver hitch of a motor vehicle and cantilevered therefrom to allow the assembly to be taken freely anywhere. The apparatus includes a principal support arm projecting horizontally outwardly from the rear of the vehicle and an upturned portion, to which an ash saucer is attached, and bolts therethrough anchor a kettle-type barbecue grill having a removable dome-shaped cover. Two food preparation and serving tables are attached to table supporting arms connected to the principal supporting arm below the ash saucer. The table tops, table supporting arms, and ash saucer are readily attachable and detachable by means of snap fastener pins.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Inventor: Anthony S. Smith
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Patent number: 5505122Abstract: Container for transporting warm foodstuffs with a first closable space (1) for the foodstuffs for transporting, a second closable space (2) in thermal contact with a heat source (5), and means (3) for transporting air from said second space to said first space. Container wherein the first space and the second space are mutually adjacent and are mutually separated by an air-permeable partition (4), and the means for transporting air can comprise a fan (3). The heat source comprises for instance a heat exchanger (5) provided with a supply conduit (6) and a discharge conduit (7) for a heat transporting medium, in particular a radiator (5) accommodated in the second space and/or an electrical heating element or a combustion heater (10), in particular a combustion heater operating on motor fuel.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1993Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Inventor: Smit Gerrit
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Patent number: 4924846Abstract: The barbecue grill has a fabric-covered panel for concealing the fuel container. The fabric is stretched across a frame and held in place by pressing the fabric into a longitudinally extending groove to form a convolution in the fabric into which a spline is pressed to hold the fabric in place. By removal of the spline, the fabric panel can be removed and replaced to allow the user to decoratively coordinate the appearance of the barbecue grill with outdoor lawn furniture or the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1989Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: The Thermos Company, Inc.Inventors: Dale Peacock, Doyle Raymer
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Patent number: 4848316Abstract: A trailer and a trailer adapter for removably supporting a grill of the type having a generally rectangular firebox with opposing longer walls, transverse shorter walls, and a bed extending to form a bottom of the firebox. The trailer adapter has four connected panels also having a generally rectangular configuration with two opposing longer panels and transversely opposing shorter panels. The opposing longer panels and one shorter panel removably support the grill. The trailer has frame members supportively extending below the four panels of the trailer adapter. Mechanical fasteners releasably fasten the trailer adapter panels to the trailer frame so that the adapter may also be disengaged from the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1988Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: Belson Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Frank W. Beller
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Patent number: 4718399Abstract: The invention provides an adjustable wagon for supporting a range of sizes of barbeques, the wagon includes a base and first and second end structures for attachment to the base at selected locations to extend upwardly in parallel from the base. The end structures can be spaced selected distances from one another according to the size of barbeque to be supported, and they include supports for receiving the barbeque between the end structures so that the barbeque becomes a structural element of the total assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1986Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Assignee: B. D. Wait Co. LimitedInventor: Charles G. Shepherd
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Patent number: 4706817Abstract: A portable food holding device is described comprising a table section with foldable legs and a cover attached thereto, adapted to maintain contained food in either a chilled or heated condition. When not in use the legs and cover may be folded to a collapsed position to form a compact unit which may be readily transported or stored. Means are disclosed for heating or cooling the contents of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1986Date of Patent: November 17, 1987Inventor: Glen Greathouse
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Patent number: 4648382Abstract: A device for steam cooking food comprising a closed chamber for containing said food and having an access door for insertion and removal of the food. The chamber includes a floor having a plurality of vents therein. A reservoir for containing liquid for producing steam is positioned beneath the vents and transmits steam in one direction, said steam in said chamber producing a condensate containing contaminates from said food, said condensate being transferred through at least one group of said vents to the reservoir. A pan is located beneath said one group of said vents for catching said contaminated condensate.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1983Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Assignee: Daleco, Inc.Inventor: Dale E. Greenbacker
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Patent number: 4346756Abstract: A cabinet type enclosure, for refrigerating a plurality of food items on a plurality of specially configured meal trays has a plurality of thin, generally horizontal, fixedly mounted heater shelf members extending into the enclosed space from one side wall thereof. One or more covered containers of food to be heated are positioned on one side of the trays and are mounted on the trays slightly above the top surface of the tray and with their bottom surfaces in contact with heater plates on the heater shelf members. The meal trays have integral transverse abutment means which cooperate with portions of a container for hot food placed on the tray adjacent the abutment means for preventing longitudinal movement of the hot food container past the transverse abutment means by frictional contact of the container with the heater shelf as the tray is moved into or out of the enclosure and relative to the heater shelf along tray guides.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1980Date of Patent: August 31, 1982Assignee: UOP Inc.Inventors: Malcolm J. Dodd, Joseph A. Juhas
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Patent number: 4093041Abstract: A food serving system for delivering prepared meals to locations remote from the point of preparation which includes a mobile cart having its own low voltage rechargeable power pack that may be utilized to make the cart self powered. The cart has a tier of shelves for carrying removable, generally flat, individual, food serving trays. Each shelf is provided with one or more thermally isolated heat transfer devices which may be energized when a tray is placed on the shelf in the cart. The heat transfer devices are intended to maintain the food in selected dishes and bowls at the desired serving temperature for extended periods without affecting the temperature of the foods and beverages in other dishes, bowls and cups on the trays, so that the food remains at the proper serving temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1976Date of Patent: June 6, 1978Assignee: Sweetheart Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Paul Davis, David Schneider
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Patent number: 4030476Abstract: A cabinet that maintains heated food at a constant temperature by circulating heated air including means for controlling moisture in the circulating air. A top mounted blower forces the heated air through a louvered panel over pans of food; the louvers are graduated to assure even distribution of air. A water reservoir is employed which includes baffling to prevent water from being spilled when the reservoir is moved, the baffling also permits control over the amount of moisture absorbed by the circulating air.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1976Date of Patent: June 21, 1977Assignee: Bevles Co., Inc.Inventor: Lester R. Hock
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Patent number: 3997028Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for dispensing and serving hot and cold foods comprising a cabinet having either one or a plurality of compartments within the cabinet for holding food, heat exchange means mounted in the compartments of the cabinet and an elevator in each compartment for raising or lowering food out of or into each compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1975Date of Patent: December 14, 1976Assignee: Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc.Inventor: Euphemia Lopez
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Patent number: 3991739Abstract: A portable food preparation apparatus including deep stainless steel cooking pans on a support and means provided on the cooking pan bottoms to distribute heat and alleviate warping of the stainless steel pans.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1975Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Inventor: John R. Hoffman, Jr.