Abstract: A gas burner element for a barbecue grill which can be utilized in a wide variety of barbecue grill base portions. The burner element has leg members which extend from the element in the direction of the base floor so that the burner element is supported solidly above the floor and the gas intake member is in communication with the gas supply pipe irrespective of the placement of the foot pads on the floor. In a preferred manner, the leg members are pivotally and extendably attached to the burner element.

Abstract: A heating apparatus is disclosed wherein a combustion chamber which contains the fuel to be burned is located adjacent to an air heating chamber. Conduit means communicate from the air heating chamber to the combustion chamber for the purpose of leading air, which has been heated within the air heating chamber, into the combustion chamber. Blower means draw ambient air from the space surrounding the heater into the air heating chamber where it is blown through the conduit means into the combustion chamber to promote efficient combustion of the fuel.

Abstract: A passive type of space heater having a vertical air heating duct located at the rear of the combustion chamber and a flue duct extending through the air heating duct with its inlet located so as to draw the flue gases from the combustion chamber around the surfaces of the air heating duct. Air for combustion is supplied to the top of the combustion chamber by an air supply duct which extends inside of the flue duct and has orifices to provide air in the flue duct for secondary combustion of the flue gases passing through the flue duct. The air supply duct also has an ejector to draw a portion of the flue gases into the air supply duct for recirculation to the combustion chamber for tertiary combustion. A separate air supply duct is provided for supplying air for combustion during start-up.

Abstract: A gas burner for cookers the essential feature of which is the enlargement of the body of the burner to form a flat plate equivalent to a real hotplate the inside of which is heated by the flame in such a way that the flame heats the plate by conduction, and further, the heat reaches this hotplate from the central area of the flame and from the point where combustion originates.

Abstract: An airtight steel stove having a dripless top or rear flue collar and cover plate assembly is disclosed. The stove is provided with similar openings in a top wall and a rear wall. Interchangeable flue collar and cover plate assemblies allow the stove to be used either as a top flue or rear flue type by placing the flue collar and cover plate assemblies as desired. The flue collar has an inside diameter sized to receive a stove pipe therewithin. This eliminates drippage of creosote and other similar products of combustion onto the outside of the stove. Instead, such materials are returned to the interior of the stove.

Abstract: A range has a grate overlying a burner, the grate having radial arms provided with downwardly extending projections near their ends and those projections are releasably held by spring clips mounted in openings in the range top. The spring clips thus hold the grate in place and prevent rattling when the range is used in a trailer or other vehicle.

Abstract: A solid fuel stove is disclosed having a hinged door adapted for loading of aggregate solid fuel in the form of lumps or chunks, such as coal, and a second hinged door located at the side or end of the stove, adapted for loading of elongated sections of long solid fuel, such as sections of wood. The stove further includes a third hinged door for cleaning out ashes, and a scoop-shaped baffle for restricting the flow of flue gases and diversion of unburned gases back into the combustion zone. Cast iron liners confine the burning area and protect the stove walls, and oval collar sections connect the upper back section of the stove with a conventional smoke pipe for exhausting the products of combustion.

Abstract: An improved wood burning stove for providing heated air to a room or similar area includes an enclosed fire chamber, a hearth at the bottom of the fire chamber, draft inlet means at the front of the fire chamber and a flue at the rear of the fire chamber. Within the fire chamber is an enclosed air chamber having lower and upper portions; the lower portion communicates at the bottom of the stove with the ambient air and extends upwardly adjacent the rear wall of the fire chamber to a point below the flue, where it joins with the upper portion. The upper portion of the air chamber extends upwardly toward the front of the fire chamber at an acute angle with the horizontal, preferably between five and twenty-five degrees; at the forward end of the upper portion the air chamber communicates with one or more air pipes which extend to the front of the stove and there open to the ambient air.

Abstract: A barbecue mountable in a wall recess as a folded unit having a thickness less than the corresponding dimension of the wall. The barbecue includes a cooking assembly and a sliding hinge mechanism which attaches the assembly to the wall and allows the assembly to be unfolded and moved away from the wall to a position of use. A carrier frame of the cooking assembly supports a removable fuel pan and is fitted with folding parts which carry a detachable rack above the pan.

Abstract: A grill such as a Hibachi or barbecue grill has a cover or lid hinged thereto and means for selectively closing the lid over the grill at a desired angle with respect thereto, to protect against wind and regulate the cooking rate.

Abstract: A combination lighter constructed of a conventional, flame producing lighter integrated with a solar lighting device as a single unit or lighter. The solar lighter may include a tubular structure having a solar lens for focusing the solar rays onto an object to be lit that is positioned within the tubular structure. The tubular structure may include an aperture for viewing the position of the object so as to permit positioning it at the focal point of the lens and for ventilation purposes.

Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) disclosed functions as a grate for an enclosed stove and includes a front hearth section (14) of an upwardly opening U-shape including tubing for carrying a fluid to be heated. An open end of the front hearth section allows an associated stove to be stroked through a front door opening thereof as well as through a top opening of the stove. A rear flue section (20) of the heat exchanger includes tubing for carrying fluid to provide preheating thereof by flue gases prior to passage to the hearth section. Inlet and outlet tubes (24, 26) of the heat exchanger respectively supply the fluid to be heated to the flue section and receive the heated fluid from the hearth section. A central connector tube (28) preferably extends between the flue and hearth sections with grate tubes (30) of the hearth section extending from the connector tube to define the U-shape thereof and with a pair of the outlet tubes communicated with upper ends of the grate tubes.

Abstract: A wood burning stove is formed with double front and rear side walls of heat conductive metal interconnected by heat conductive spacer fins and providing air passageways by which room air is heated by conduction from the walls which are heated by the burning of wood deposited on a firebox grate made up of spaced bricks supported by metal holders secured in heat conducting relation to said inner side walls. The rear side air passageway is divided into central and outer vertical sections the central one of which is closed at the bottom end and communicates with the atmosphere through an opening in the outer wall intermediate its vertical ends and with the stove interior above the firebox and below the grate through openings in the inner wall intermediate its vertical ends and adjacent its bottom end, respectively.

Abstract: A stove, steam cooking and heating system is provided that includes a means for supplying water to a collector wherein the collector is arranged in a suitable location such as a heat source such as a fireplace, campfire or the like so that the water is converted to steam which can be used for any desired purpose, as for example, the steam can be used for cooking foodstuffs, heating purposes and the like.

Abstract: A foot pedal is mounted on a control lever operatively connected to a hydrostatic transmission mechanism for a vehicle, for controlling forward and rearward movement of the vehicle. A damping member, operatively associated with the control lever, frictionally engages the pedal to restrain movement of the pedal and control lever, which movement may be caused by heavy vibration of the vehicle during travel over uneven terrain.

Abstract: A cooking range has a pair of side panels as its main structural members. A range top, back panel, bottom member and oven frame are all secured to the side panels and a heat insulated oven shell having an open front is supported at its forward end by the oven frame and by spaced brackets engaging the back panel. Heat conductive contact between the oven shell and oven frame, between the oven frame and side panels and between inner and outer walls of the side panels is minimized by forming upstanding pads on one of each of the pairs of members and through which suitable fastening means extend. The pads are of small area and are the only portions of the members that are in direct contact.

Abstract: A tunnel oven includes a framework forming an elongated cooking tunnel with an entrance at one end for ingress of products to be heated in the tunnel during traverse through the tunnel and an exit at the opposite end for egress of heated products. A conveyor of either in-line type with over-and-under reaches or a return type with coplanar reaches conveys products from the entrance to the exit. The tunnel floor is a plate constituting a hearth. Infrared radiant heater panels along the tunnel length above and below the hearth provide heat. Pairs of thermocouples arranged in two sets, each set having an upper and lower thermocouple, to provide sensing of the temperatures of the hearth and the upper heating elements.

Abstract: A rocker arm and a method of making the same are provided. In one form, the rocker arm is of the wrap-around type in which a metal sheet is appropriately symmetrically shaped and is then bent back on itself on the line of symmetry at which one end of the rocker arm body is formed. The two halves are then affixed together by projection welding or the like. The rocker arm has two diverging, downwardly-extending walls formed at the one end of the body with a separate socket member then resistance welded to the walls. The socket member has a central oil opening which supplies oil to a push rod from an oil passage in the rocker arm body. This passage, in turn, communicates with an oil supply passage in a shaft on which the rocker arm is rotatably supported through a hole in a bearing sleeve carried by the rocker arm body. A second, separate passage communicates with the other end of the rocker arm and with the oil supply passage in the shaft through a separate hole in the bearing sleeve.

Abstract: A transmission of the multispeed reversible type, shiftable under load (i.e. having continuously engaging gears establishing the several speeds) comprising a one-piece housing formed with a window large enough to permit the various speed-determining gears and clutches to be introduced and closed by a cover in which the input shaft is journaled. The speed-determining gears and clutches are mounted for rotation upon fixed shafts which are held against rotation and span opposite walls of the housing. Each of the fixed shafts has a flange on one end thereof which is bolted to the housing upon insertion of the shaft through an opening on the side of the housing provided with the flange.

Abstract: A derailleur for a bicycle, which comprises four members, including a fitting member, two linkage members and a movable member, all movable with respect to each other. Between two of the members there is a device for positioning cages having chain-guide pulleys mounted on the movable member, whereby the derailleur enables the cages to be properly positioned and kept in the position at each speed-change stage of the bicycle so that an accurate and light speed-change operation may be performed.