Abstract: A solid fuel cooking range is described herein. Embodiments enable the user to cook food on an upper grill while simultaneously heating a separate dish in a lower oven. In certain embodiments, heat may be applied to the oven from both the top and bottom. Heat and airflow may be controlled using a shroud which does not enclose the sides of the upper cooking area and separate end plates. Embodiments may be portable and lightweight which enables the solid fuel cooking range to be used while traveling and in emergency situations.

Abstract: A cooker includes a cooking chamber having a first end and a second opposite end. A firepot is located at the bottom of the cooking chamber near the first end. The firepot receives and burns fuel to heat the cooking chamber. An exhaust stack is mounted near the second end of the cooking chamber. A heat management plate divides the cooking chamber into a lower fire pit portion and an upper cooking portion. The heat plate has an array of hot gas convection openings that extend between a first location which is spaced away from the firewall and a second location that is adjacent to the stack wall. The open area presented by the openings increases between the first location and the second location. An optional adjustable gate may also be present in the heat management plate between the firewall and the first location.

Abstract: A carbon fuel combustion process, employing an air gas separation unit, a combustion unit operating either with air or with an oxidizer leaner in nitrogen than air, coming from the air gas separation unit, and a unit for compressing and/or purifying the CO2 coming from the combustion flue gas, wherein the power consumed by the air gas separation unit and/or the flow of oxygen produced by the air gas separation unit and/or the capture of the CO2 coming from the combustion flue gas are variable over time is presented.

Abstract: A combustion chamber, having an upper part and a lower part, may include an annular constriction, in combination with the combustion chamber, to aid in directing partially combusted gases such as carbon monoxide away from the periphery of the combustion chamber back toward its center, and into the flame front. The annular constriction may also impede the flow of partially combusted gases located at the periphery, thus increasing the time these gases spend within the combustion chamber and increasing the likelihood that any products of incomplete combustion will undergo combustion. The combustion chamber may further comprise a dual burner cooktop for directing combustion gases and exhaust to multiple cooking vessels. In further embodiments, the combustion chamber may be made of, lined, or clad with a metal alloy comprising iron, chromium, and aluminum.

Abstract: A simultaneous multiple cooking mode barbecue grill that includes a first cooking mode unit configured to prepare food in a first cooking mode, a second cooking mode unit configured to prepare food in a second cooking mode, and a supporting structure that supports the first cooking mode unit and the second cooking mode unit so that the first and second cooking mode units can be moved securely and operated simultaneously to prepare food using multiple cooking modes.

Abstract: A portable freestanding stove designed to combust organic material pieces, having open combustion chamber (1) surrounded with sidewall (2) composed of one inverted truncated upper sheet metal cone (6) of combustion chamber (1) and surrounding thereof circumferential sheet metal ring (7) of combustion chamber (1). Positioned under upper cone (6) is second inverted truncated lower sheet metal cone (8) of air draft. Both truncated cones (6, 8) are rigidly positioned, one relative to the other, with axial gap (h) determined by means of circumferential sheet metal ring (7), rigidly connected to them and positioned at external circumference thereof. The lower part of upper cone (6) connects to grate (3), under which sheet metal ash pan (4) is positioned. Circumferential sheet metal ring (7) of stove rests on supporting structure (5).

Abstract: Devices and methods for accelerating the combustion of non-gas cooking fuels used in barbequing. The devices include a starting fuel for preparing, or starting, a cooking fuel, such as charcoal briquettes, for use to cook food. The starting fuel is contained in a kindling chamber beneath an upper chamber containing the cooking fuel. A powered air delivery mechanism may provide an airflow to the fuels to increase combustion and heating thereof. In some embodiments, the device is a breach-loading device. In some embodiments, the air delivery mechanism is battery-powered. The device may be configured to provide, and/or may be automated to provide, different operating states responsive to the degree of ignition and/or combustion of the fuels in the device. In some embodiments, the device is adapted to automatically be transitioned between forced-air and natural-draft operating states, which may be controlled responsive to sensed operating parameters of the device.

Abstract: An outdoor cooking apparatus includes a main burner section and an auxiliary burner section connectable thereto. A user can cook outdoors with either a single burner arrangement using the main burner section or a double burner arrangement using the main burner section and the auxiliary burner section connected thereto. Upon assembly, the burner sections each provide a burner element that are at respective differing elevational positions, the main burner section providing a burner element at a higher elevation and the auxiliary burner element providing a burner at a lower elevational position. The two burner sections are removably connectable so that the auxiliary burner section can be either connected to or disconnected from the main burner section as selected by a user.

Abstract: A new wax composition for use in the ink industry, which composition is prepared from: (a) 40% to 90% of solvent having a boiling point within the range of about 100.degree. to 550.degree. C., said solvent being selected from the group consisting of aromatic and aliphatic solvents, (b) 10% to 40% of wax having an average particle size within the range of about 1 to about 300 microns, (c) 5% to 40% of polymeric pour point depressant, and optionally dependant on the characteristics required, 4% to 40% of a resin material which is soluble in aromatic and aliphatic solvents.

Abstract: A biomass stove has an outer chamber formed by a continuous side wall which is connected to a bottom wall. An air inlet is formed in the bottom wall for allowing introduction of air into the interior of the outer chamber. A fuel basket, also formed as a continuous side wall attached to a bottom wall, is located within the outer chamber. In the fuel basket, near the bottom of the fuel basket, a grate is positioned. First and second reflecting members are positioned below the grate within the fuel basket. Air inlets are located along the bottom periphery of the fuel basket with primary air flowing up through the air inlets and over the reflecting members and through the grate into a fuel supply which can be located within the fuel basket on the grate. One or more of the primary stoves can be suspended in a support housing to form an appropriate multi-burner stove.

Abstract: A portable charcoal-heated cooking system for mounting to the coaming of a pick-up truck bed has a steam chamber and a grill chamber, each partly defined by a multiple flat-plate-reflection housing structure that in the grill chamber evens-out radiant heating between the grill edges and central portion. The housing structure also reduces volume necessary for a given cooking requirement. Rain shedding and liquid drainage provisions keep the system ready for use.

Abstract: A portable cooking device comprising a housing having two cooking sections hinged together along a respective side wall whereby the sections may be disposed side by side with their open ends facing upwardly and displaceable to be juxtaposed with their open ends facing one another. Each section has a bottom wall, opposed side walls and opposed end walls. One of the cooking sections has a heat generating element secured therein beneath a heat transmitting support frame. The other concave section has a gas burner assembly supportable on the bottom wall thereof below a further heat transmitting support frame. The assembly has an open top end pan with a gas burner element disposed substantially centrally therein. A flame shield is disposed over the burner. A secondary heat deflection support plate maintains the pan spaced from the bottom wall and the side and end walls. The pan is also ventilated by vent openings provided in the side and end walls of the cooking section.

Abstract: A solid fuel burning heating apparatus, used as a parlor stove, is also used for cooking. The stove is provided with a self-clearing top smoke chamber having a top cover over an aperture. A cooking tray is supported in the aperture when the stove is operating. The tray has a surface for holding coals and an opening communicating between the aperture and the interior of the stove. A perforate cooking surface is supported above the tray.

Abstract: A heater usable for indoor and outdoor use including a body having an upper and a lower portion. The two portions are separated by a grate adapted to support a solid fuel within the upper portion. The lower portion is operable to receive a receptacle for a lighted semi-solid fuel. The heater can be used in two modes, in a high heat output mode in which the solid fuel is first lit by the semi-solid fuel that is then removed or in a lower heat output mode in which the upper solid fuel is dispensed with and the heat is given off by the lower portion semi-solid fuel receptacle only. The upper portion of the heater is selectively closed or opened by a lid to allow heating operation or to provide damping operation when the lid is in its lowered position.

Abstract: A portable cooking unit of the type having dished fuel trays pivotally joined to a central frame for movement between raised fuel lighting positions and lowered cooking positions, and having removable grills comprises improved support means for supporting the grills releasably.Bails, which are attached to the fuel trays for supporting them in their lowered positions, have indented medial portions allowing a user's hand to be placed under them for moving the fuel trays to their raised positions when they are hot. The bails are movable between carrying positions for carrying the cooking unit and support positions for supporting the fuel trays when cooking, by means of inwardly facing extensions located at their extremities. The extensions fit rotatably in bores located in the fuel trays allowing the bails to be moved over camming surfaces into detents which retain them in their support positions.

Abstract: A portable cooking unit for use with charcoal or similar fuel comprises dished fuel trays open at both ends and joined pivotally to a frame for movement between a raised substantially vertical portion, in which they are adjacent one another, and a lowered substantially horizontal cooking position. Perforate grills are positionable in grill support means located in the fuel trays to retain fuel in the fuel trays for lighting when the fuel trays are in their raised position, and to cook on when the fuel trays are in their lowered position. A top damper is positionable over the upper open end of the fuel trays when they are in their raised position to smother the fuel when cooking is finished.

Abstract: A portable forced draft solid fuel burning cooker in which a duct defining base supports a centrally disposed electrically operated blower unit. Two heater units that use fuel such as briquets, acorn, small pieces of wood, twigs and the like are supported from the base on opposite sides of the blower unit. First and second manually operated dampers are provided in the base to selectively permit a desired volume of air from the blower to flow to either the first or second heater unit, or concurrently to both units. Individual cooking utensils may be heated to different temperatures on the first and second heater units if desired, by controlling the volume of air flowing to each of the heater units. A heat conducting grill may be extended across both heater units, and utilized to cook pancakes and the like.