Abstract: A portable cook stove includes a bowl-like grate supported by a column forming a cavity for supplying air to the grate and for receiving ashes falling through the grate. The column is supported on a tray for receiving and retaining ashes removed from the cavity to reduce the likelihood of a fire from hot coals in the ashes.

Abstract: A collapsible camping range for use in a camping environment. The camping range can utilize a collapsible wall structure that facilitates portability. In addition, a multi-purpose cover to the camping range can be utilized to serve as a cover for the oven, a griddle for the cooking of food, a wash basin or basin for boiling water, and a receptacle in which the other parts of the camping range can be stowed. The camping range can be fabricated with oven walls that allow the oven chamber to be expanded for the cooking of large foods, such as for use as a pig roaster. Removable fuel containers can be utilized to facilitate the portability of the camping range as well as in a plurality of positions for heating purposes.

Abstract: An oven device (4) is adapted for use with a source of heat (24), such as a camp stove, and a cooking utensil (6), such as a covered (12) pot or pan (8), positioned over and separated from the heat source by a heat shield (20). The oven device includes a high temperature flexible, foldable convection dome, such as one made of aluminized fiberglass, having a vertically oriented sidewall (34) and a top (36). The top has a central vent opening (40). The convection dome is supported on the lid covering the pan by a number of radially extending pockets (42). The material from which the convention dome is made of is flexible enough to permit the convection dome to be folded up into a compact rectangular configuration but stiff enough to allow the pockets to support the convection dome above the lid of the pan with the sidewalls of the convection dome spaced apart from the sides of the pan.

Abstract: An orchard heater burns wood or other biomass pellets substantially without the production of soot or smudge. The heater assembly includes demountable, telescoping components including a combustion chamber, a chimney, a firebox, and a hopper. Combination air- and fuel-flow control means control the combustion process. An oven or a grill attachment may be included in the assembly for cooking purposes, if so desired.

Abstract: The device for mounting a cooking apparatus of the present invention on a wall and the like in a kitchen comprises a wall fixing member to be fixedly mounted on the wall and provided with reinforcing members projecting forward; a supporting member rotatable up-and downwardly and provided with grooves in which the legs of the cooking apparatus are to be put; and a stopper member for preventing the legs of the cooking apparatus from coming off the grooves of the supporting member in case that the cooking apparatus is supported by said supporting member. Accordingly, the cooking apparatus can be easily mounted on the wall and the like in the kitchen without any extra members to be mounted on the cooking apparatus, so that a cooking apparatus of such a type originally used by being placed on a cooking counter and the like can be easily mounted on a wall in a kitchen.

Abstract: A countertop oven particularly well suited for preparing convenience foods, such as frozen dinners and hot sandwiches is provided. The oven includes at least one heating and serving tray with heat resistant handles, the tray sliding into slots in the oven side-walls with the handles on the outside so that the heating and serving tray may be removed from the oven and placed directly on a table for serving. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the oven includes two pairs of slots for receiving two heating and serving trays and includes three heating elements. This heating configuration permits cooking on the two trays in about sixty percent of the time compared to conventional countertop ovens.

Abstract: An apparatus which would include a four wall closed structure having a rack on its floor portion in order to accommodate the food to be cooked or smoked. There is further provided a removable top which would have a recessed container means for housing coals or the like as a source of heat, with the recessed pan intruding into the interior of the apparatus. Positioned above the recessed pan means is a grill means hingedly attached to the top portion of the apparatus for placing meat or the like thereupon. The apparatus further comprises a means to smoke the meat while it undergoes baking, and a drain means for draining excess drippings during the cooking process. It also has members for supporting the top portion when the top portion has been removed for tending to the meat within the apparatus without the top portion having to be placed upon the ground or the like.

Abstract: An adjustable welding furnace includes a gimbal-mounted furnace housing within which a workpiece may be preheated and subsequently welded. A removable cover is mounted over an access opening in the housing for pivotal movement along either of two edges of the opening. A rotatable spit assembly, which may be mounted in any of several positions on the housing, suspends the workpiece within the housing for rotation independent of pivotal movement of the housing. A drawer-mounted heating assembly may be easily removed from the housing for servicing.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tabletop-microwave oven combination wherein the microwave oven is provided with a cabinet having an opening at the top in which a horizontally sliding door is mounted. The tabletop also includes an opening in the control portion thereof adapted to receive the microwave oven and a pedestal or body surrounding the oven which is inserted in the opening. The door of the oven when moved horizontally to open the oven, slides in a slot within the tabletop or moves in a space just below the tabletop. The oven contains a tray designed to hold a utensil containing food and means are provided within the oven to lift the tray to a position astride of the oven when the door is open.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multi-piece potable oven having a base plate, an oven body, a cover, and any of a skillet, "mess tray", steamer, or funnel lid. The base plate has a circular bottom portion and an upwardly extending frusto-conical opening at the center. The oven body has an upwardly extending cylindrical sidewall and a substantially flat bottom with an upwardly extending frusto-conical opening at the center thereof which is adapted to fit on the upwardly extending frusto-conical opening of the base plate. The skillet is placed over the oven body for frying or broiling. The "mess tray" is placed over the oven body when additional space is desired for baking, roasting, and general heating. The steamer is placed over the oven body when vegetables or seafood are to be steamed. The funnel lid covers the upwardly extending frusto-conical opening at the center of the oven body when the portable oven is used for steaming or popping corn.

Abstract: A microwave oven is disclosed which is especially useful for rapidly reconstituting frozen food products. The oven includes a microwave cavity having a bottom hatch which is movable between an open position at which food to be heated or cooked can be loaded onto the hatch from outside the oven, and a closed position whereat the food is disposed within the cavity for heating or cooking by electromagnetic energy. The hatch can be manually closed and, after a preset cooking time, automatically opened by gravity. Also disclosed is a heat shield assembly mounted for movement relative to the bottom of the cavity, so that when the hatch is in its open position and electric (IR) heat is provided to supplement microwave heating in the cavity, the assembly covers the bottom of the cavity to prevent heat from radiating below the cavity when the food is supported on or removed from the movable hatch.

Abstract: A microwave oven is disclosed which is especially useful for rapidly reconstituting frozen food products. The oven includes a microwave cavity having a bottom hatch which is movable between an open position at which food to be heated or cooked can be loaded onto the hatch from outside the oven, and a closed position whereat the food is disposed within the cavity for heating or cooking by electromagnetic energy. The hatch can be manually closed and, after a preset cooking time, automatically opened by gravity. Also disclosed is a heat shield assembly mounted for movement relative to the bottom of the cavity, so that when the hatch is in its open position and electric (IR) heat is provided to supplement microwave heating in the cavity, the assembly covers the bottom of the cavity to prevent heat from radiating below the cavity when the food is supported on or removed from the movable hatch.

Abstract: A low temperature gas-fired or electrically heated oven and warming unit for domestic purposes having a chamber enclosed by walls and a door at the front. The chamber is variable in volume, for example by being vertically extensible by having overlapping, relatively movable wall portions at the side and back and a door which automatically adjusts to the volume of the chamber for example by being of the tambour or roller shutter type. The unit can be fixed by the top section under a kitchen wall unit and extended downwards for use. Removable, lazy-tongs linkages at the sides of the unit control the extension of the chamber and are jointly operated by a single adjustment control. Shelf supports on the linkages move to alter the spacing of the shelves as the chamber volume is varied.