Abstract: A barbecue device includes a support unit with opposite first and second connecting rods that interconnect U-shaped first and second support members, and a cook unit supported removably on horizontal bars of the support members. The support unit is turnable upside-down, and confines a receiving space which opens upwardly when turned upside-down for receiving the cook unit therein. A looped retainer frame is pivoted to the second connecting rod, and engages releasably the first connecting rod. The retainer frame is turnable away from and toward the horizontal bars for moving between an open position, in which the cook unit can be placed in the receiving space, and a closed position, in which the retainer frame engages releasably the first connecting rod for retaining the cook unit in the receiving space.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly includes aside rack mounted foldably on a main frame, which has a mounting seat formed with an insert hole for access to a slide passage and installed with a resilient locking pin and an operating shaft coupled to the locking pin. The side rack has an insert rod extending slidably into the slide passage and formed with an engaging groove for engaging the locking pin so as to retain the side rack at a horizontal unfolded position. The insert rod extends through a side hole portion of the insert hole when in the unfolded position. The operating shaft is operable against restoring action of the locking pin so as to disengage the locking pin from the insert rod. The insert rod is slidable outwardly and is turnable downwardly to extend through a bottom hole portion of the insert hole when disengaged from the locking pin.

Abstract: A barbecue device includes front and rear leg members disposed under and pivoted to a support plate. The leg members are pivotable relative to the support plate for moving between a first position, in which lower ends of the leg members are moved away from each other, and a second position, in which the lower ends of the leg members are moved toward each other. A cook unit is disposed removably on the support plate. The support plate and the leg members cooperatively define an accommodating space thereamong for receiving the cook unit when the cook unit is removed from the support plate. A retaining unit is mounted on one of the leg members, and engages releasably the other one of the leg members for retaining the leg members at the second position.

Abstract: In an electric toaster, a power switch unit is switched by a actuator provided on a support seat, which is movable together with a carriage, from an OFF-mode, where power to an electric heating unit is cut-off, to an ON-mode, where power is supplied to the heating unit, when the carriage is moved from an upper limit position to a lower limit position. A control unit energizes an electromagnet when the switch unit is switched to the ON-mode to attract a magnetically-attracted plate on the seat so that, once a force to move the carriage to the lower limit position is relieved, a biasing device biases the carriage to move from the lower limit position to a toasting position, thereby holding the seat in a lower retaining position against biasing action of a biasing member and thereby holding the carriage in the toasting position.

Abstract: An electric toaster includes a power switch unit driven by an electromagnet, for holding a spring-loaded carriage mounted in a toasting compartment when the carriage is moved from an upper position to a lower position, so as to switch from an OFF-mode, where the electromagnet is disposed in a deactivated position, to an ON-mode, where the electromagnet is disposed in an activated position. A control unit enables the electromagnet to be excited when the carriage is moved from the upper position to the lower position so as to attract the carriage such that the electromagnet subsequently moves with the carriage from the deactivated position to the activated position.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly includes a grill member disposed in a cooking base. The cooking base has left and right side walls extending upwardly from a bottom wall. Atop cover is disposed on a top side of the cooking base for covering the cooking base. A side rack has one end portion pivoted to one of the left and right side walls of the cooking base. The side rack is turnable inwardly into the cooking base for moving to a folded position, and is further turnable outwardly from the cooking base for moving to an unfolded position. A fastening unit fastens releasably the top cover and the cooking base when the side rack is disposed at the folded position.

Abstract: A brewing apparatus for an electric coffee maker includes a plunger unit and a sleeve unit, which can be driven by a driving unit to move horizontally on a machine base. When an unsealed chamber is defined among a coffee-discharging unit, the plunger unit and the sleeve unit, ground coffee beans can be fed into the unsealed chamber. Subsequently, a sealed chamber is defined among the coffee-discharging unit, the plunger unit and the sleeve unit such that the ground coffee beans are received within the sealed chamber, thereby permitting flow of hot water into the sealed chamber. Finally, the plunger unit and the sleeve unit are separated from the coffee discharging unit, thereby permitting dropping of consumed ground coffee from a space between the coffee-discharging unit and the assembly of the plunger unit and the sleeve unit.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly includes a grill member disposed in a cooking base. The cooking base has left and right side walls extending upwardly from a bottom wall. Atop cover is disposed on a top side of the cooking base for covering the cooking base. A side rack has one end portion pivoted to one of the left and right side walls of the cooking base. The side rack is turnable inwardly into the cooking base for moving to a folded position, and is further turnable outwardly from the cooking base for moving to an unfolded position. A fastening unit fastens releasably the top cover and the cooking base when the side rack is disposed at the folded position.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly includes aside rack mounted foldably on a main frame, which has a mounting seat formed with an insert hole for access to a slide passage and installed with a resilient locking pin and an operating shaft coupled to the locking pin. The side rack has an insert rod extending slidably into the slide passage and formed with an engaging groove for engaging the locking pin so as to retain the side rack at a horizontal unfolded position. The insert rod extends through a side hole portion of the insert hole when in the unfolded position. The operating shaft is operable against restoring action of the locking pin so as to disengage the locking pin from the insert rod. The insert rod is slidable outwardly and is turnable downwardly to extend through a bottom hole portion of the insert hole when disengaged from the locking pin.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly includes a cook unit and a casing. The cook unit has a cooking base, a grill member disposed in the cooking base, a top cover, and a handle formed on the top cover. The casing includes front and rear casing parts that have first edges hinged to each other, and second edges fastened releasably to each other by a pair of fastening units. The casing is formed with two handle openings at the second edges, and is mounted with a wheel unit and a pull member above the wheel unit. The casing confines a receiving space for receiving the cook unit. The handle on the cook unit is extendible through the handle openings. The pull member is operable for pulling the casing to move along a ground surface by virtue of rolling contact of the wheel unit with the ground surface. The casing is adapted to be disposed uprightly on a ground surface for supporting the cook unit thereon.

Abstract: A grill device includes a horizontal upper grill which is superposed on a lower grill unit and which has an upper cooking member and an insulated terminal-mounting seat. The terminal-mounting seat has first and second terminals electrically coupled with the upper cooking member and a ground terminal hole. A spring-biased blocking plate is mounted on the terminal-mounting seat in such a manner to deny access into the ground terminal hole in the terminal-mounting seat when the upper grill unit is separated from the lower grill unit. A push plate with a through hole is fixed on the lower grill unit, and pushes the blocking plate away from the ground terminal hole when the upper grill unit is superposed on the lower grill unit, thereby establishing spatial communication between the through hole in the push plate and the ground terminal hole in the terminal-mounting seat.

Abstract: A brewing apparatus for an electric coffee maker includes a sleeve unit and a plunger unit disposed horizontally and movably within a base. Firstly, when a large chamber is defined within the sleeve unit between the plunger unit and a water-feeding unit, ground coffee beans can be fed into the large chamber via an opening in the sleeve unit. Subsequently, when the sleeve unit and the plunger clamp the ground coffee beans, hot water can be fed into a small chamber defined within the sleeve unit between the plunger unit and the water-feeding unit, thereby resulting in consumed ground coffee and brewed coffee that exits from the plunger unit. Finally, when the sleeve unit is separated from the plunger unit, the consumed ground coffee drops from a space defined between the sleeve unit and the plunger unit.

Abstract: A grill device includes two independently controllable cooking sets confining two isolate cooking spaces such that two different meat pieces can be grilled therein under different cooking temperatures at the same time. Each of the cooking sets has a cooking plate provided with first and second grill ribs alternately disposed thereon. The first grill rib has a horizontal flat portion and a curved portion extending curvedly and downwardly from the flat portion. The second grill rib has a horizontal flat portion, and a curved portion extending curvedly and upwardly from the flat portion. The curved portion of the second grill rib has an elevation higher than those of the flat portions of the first and second ribs to prevent sliding out a meat piece from the cooking plate when the meat piece is disposed on the flat portions of the first and second grill ribs.