Abstract: The present invention provides a watersports board rack for attaching to a support member (e.g., hanging down from an overhead support tower) of a boat. The rack may have a low profile, superior padding and an increased contact area compared to current rack systems, as well as at least one strap for securing the board against the padding and a coupler for attaching to the overhead support member. The rack may thus be operable to securely hold up to two watersports boards (e.g., two wakesurf boards) without the usual wear and tear (e.g., dents and scrapes) that occurs from regular contact with the tines of current rack systems. The rack may thus increase the boat's capacity to securely store watersports boards while the boat is in motion, and due to the low profile, the rack will not substantially reduce headroom or require removal from a folding tower before folding the tower down for transporting and storing the boat.

Abstract: A drop-in cooking device for installation into an opening in a fixture, including a housing configured to be mounted in the opening in the fixture, a heating element positioned in the housing, and a cover attachable to the housing adjacent the heating element, the cover comprising a thermally insulating material and having a collapsible portion, wherein the collapsible portion of the cover has a working configuration in which the cover has a first height and a storage configuration in which the cover has a second height, the second height being less than the first height.

Abstract: A device and system for increasing the safety of portable stoves or stoves used in unstable conditions. The device includes at least one support member and at least one retaining member slidably disposed on the support member. The retaining member has an anchoring mechanism movably disposed on it that is used to lock it into place with respect to the support member. The retaining member contacts the sides of a pot or other cooking vessel when in an active position and may be moved into a stowed position.

Abstract: A system for improving the safety of a stove by preventing unwanted movement of cooking vessels in use on the stove. The system includes independently extendable posts that are adjacent to the cooking areas of the stove. The extendable posts may be retracted to a position wherein the top surface of the post is at or below the surface of the stove so as to enable easy cleaning and provide an attractive appearance. The posts are easily moved between their extended and retracted positions and are biased upwardly.

Abstract: A leg is adapted to be inserted into a standard removable hitch receiver. The leg has spaced vertical plates. Forward and rearward horizontally spaced lower pivot apertures are provided. A plurality of positioning apertures are provided in an arcuate pattern. A pivoting grill platform has associated plates. Forward and rearward horizontally spaced upper pivot apertures are provided. A coupling assembly includes a pivoting support arm and a pivoting leveling arm. Each arm has an upper aperture and bolt coupling upper pivot apertures of the grill. Each arm has a lower aperture and bolt coupling the pivot apertures of the vertical plates of the leg. A removable self locking pin is positionable through the locking aperture and a preselected one of the plurality of positioning apertures.

Abstract: Hood, in particular associable to a cooking oven for professional kitchen applications, comprising a catalytic converter, a fan adapted to extract gases, fumes and vapors from the cooking cavity of said oven, a first intake aperture adapted to enable said gases to flow from the interior of the cooking cavity of said oven into said extractor hood, a third aperture adapted to enable said gases to be exhausted from the interior of said extractor hood into the outside ambient, a channel connecting said intake aperture with said exhaust aperture, and within which there are arranged said catalytic converter and said fan, as well as a condenser for condensing the water vapor and condensable fats contained in the gas flowing through said channel; in said channel there is provided a second intake aperture adapted to take in air from the ambient surrounding the oven.

Abstract: The invention aims at reducing the beating noise generated from motors of equipments placed in a galley unit of an aircraft. A galley unit 1 of an aircraft includes a cabinet 10 formed of honeycomb panels and the like. The cabinet 10 has a counter 50 for cooking, and a compartment 20 formed under the counter 50 for storing service carts 30. A plurality of ovens 100 for heating warm dishes are provided above the counter 50. Each oven 100 has a fan motor for making the inner heat even. If all the fan motors of the ovens are driven at the same rotation frequency, a beating noise will be generated from the motor and amplified through the compartment 20. Therefore, the rotation frequencies of the fan motors are slightly varied.

Abstract: A pot stabilizing apparatus includes a tubular member that includes a lower loop and an upper loop. Each of the lower and upper loops has a substantially annular shape. The upper and lower loops have a substantially same size. A peripheral wall is attached to and extends between the upper and lower loops. A coupler is attached to the lower loop and is configured to releasably attach the lower loop to a surface heating unit. A pot is positioned in the tubular member when the lower loop is attached to the surface heating unit.

Abstract: A system for improving the safety of a stove by preventing unwanted movement of cooking vessels in use on the stove. The system includes independently extendable posts that are adjacent to the cooking areas of the stove. The extendable posts may be retracted to a position wherein the top surface of the post is at or below the surface of the stove so as to enable easy cleaning and provide an attractive appearance. The posts are easily moved between their extended and retracted positions and are biased upwardly.

Abstract: A portable outdoor cooker particularly adapted for boats and convertible for grill, griddle, steam and roast cooking. A cooker unit having an open top and a propane gas log interiorly positioned and attached to a propane supply is provided. Various racks and pans and covers are mounted on the cooker providing the ability to grill, griddle, steam or roast. The cooker has removable or retractable legs for mounting on boat rails.

Abstract: Methods and devices for securing the bottom of an item of cookware to the burner of a stove top by use of magnetism. The magnet(s) may be permanent magnets or electromagnets. The cookware may comprise a permanent magnet disposed on or in the base of the cookware. The burner comprises a magnetic material such as steel or iron. The magnetic material may be in the grate of the cook top, in the electric coil of an electric burner, in the surface of a vitroceramic or smooth-top stove top, or other component of the cook top in close proximity to the bottom of the cookware when it is on the cooking surface. The magnetic source prevents the cookware from being accidentally knocked off the cook top.

Abstract: A portable cook stove is provided with a cooking pot support having upstanding peripheral tabs at a peripheral portion thereof. When a cooking pot having an effective pot diameter at or less than an effective inner diameter of the tabs is employed, the cooking pot support can be oriented so that the upstanding peripheral tabs are directed upwardly creating a guard against slippage of the cooking pot with respect to the cooking pot support. Conversely, when a cooking pot having an effective pot diameter greater than the effective inner diameter of the tabs is employed, the cooking pot support can be oriented so that the peripheral tabs are directed downwardly and do not create an obstruction to using the larger cooking pot.

Abstract: An adjustment device, particularly for adjusting the levelness of a surface or of an electric appliance, such as for example a set of burners of a cooker for watercraft, comprising two side panels provided with two pivots for pivoting to a fixed support. The pair of pivots is slidingly located in a longitudinal seat and interacts with means for varying the position of the pivots which can be activated by the user.

Abstract: The subject device is an energy savings ring for cooking utensils placed on a stove burner with the subject device being a perimeter ring-like member or other generally perimeter member adapted to surround all or part of the outer circumference of the cooking utensil so that part of the outer circumference of the cooking utensil is surrounded by the inner circumferential wall of the perimeter member with the perimeter member being structured to receive heat from the stove burner on its lower surface, and then transfer such heat upwardly into the inner circumferential surface of the perimeter member to be transferred in turn to the outer circumferential surface of the cooking utensil.

Abstract: A support system for attaching a cooking apparatus to a vehicle is disclosed. The support system includes a support defining an axis between first and second ends. The first end of the support is configured for attachment to the vehicle. The support system further includes a member connected toward the second end of and extending upwardly from the support. Moreover, the support system includes an apparatus for connecting the cooking apparatus toward a free upper end of the member extending upwardly from the support. Such apparatus includes a mechanism for permitting the cooking apparatus to be pivoted to effect leveling of a cooking surface on the cooking apparatus.

Abstract: A mounting system for detachably mounting an item (10) to a base. The mounting system includes a first engaging portion on the item (10) and a second engaging portion on the base. The first engaging portion includes a first flange portion (24) adapted to engage with a second flange portion (50) on the second engaging portion. The item includes a locking member (28) which is moveable between a first position in which it engages with the second flange portion (50) and prevents detachment of the item (10) from the base and a second position in which the locking member (28) does not engage with the second flange portion (50) and the item (10) is removable from the base.

Abstract: A portable stove that is especially useful for marine and recreational vehicle use in that the cooking vessel (pot or pan) holding the food or liquid is gimbaled to swing about perpendicular axes to remain upright despite substantial rolling or pitching of the marine vehicle and the movement of the recreational vehicle to prevent the spilling of the contents of the cooking vessel. The portable stove generally comprises a gimbal ring having two sets of gimbals or bearings therearound, a frame associated with one set of gimbals or bearings for pivotally supporting the gimbal ring, a hanger assembly associated with the other set of the gimbals or bearings and being pivotally supported by the gimbal ring, a fuel supply tank positioned within a basket formed in the hanger assembly, a burner assembly connected with the fuel supply tank, and a pedestal within the vehicle, associated with the frame for normally maintaining the frame in a vertical position.

Abstract: An adjustment device, particularly for adjusting the levelness of a surface or of an electric appliance, such as for example a set of burners of a cooker for watercraft, comprising two side panels provided with two pivots for pivoting to a fixed support. The pair of pivots is slidingly located in a longitudinal seat and interacts with means for varying the position of the pivots which can be activated by the user.

Abstract: A water heater is restrained against movement, such as during an earthquake, by a restraining system. The restraining system includes a pair of adjustable straps, which accommodate water heaters of various sizes. One end of each strap is securely attached to a supporting surface, such as a wall. The other end of the straps contain a plurality of slots configured to receive a connector. A connector is positioned in a desired slot or slots in each strap such that when the straps are placed around the water heater, the connectors are positioned proximate to each other. An adjustable fastener such as a bolt is inserted through an aperture in each connector to adjustably fasten the connectors together. The adjustable connector allows fine adjustment of the tension of straps around the water heater.

Abstract: A supporting device used to securely mount a selectively removable portable stove and a fuel tank to a planar supporting structure without the use of hand tools. A base which includes an upper surface, lower surface, stove receiving region and tank receiving region has positioned above the stove receiving region a stove mounting plate. The stove mounting plate is positioned a fixed distance above the upper surface of the base. The spacing insulates the base from the heat of the stove.

Abstract: A new and improved device for retaining utensils on a stove top. The device includes an electromagnet spaced a predetermined distance below the stove burner or attached thereto. In a first embodiment, the electromagnet may be electrically connected to a control knob on a gas stove which is likewise connected to an electronic ignition system. Accordingly, activating the burner will simultaneously activate the magnet allowing a pot or pan to be magnetically secured thereto. In a second embodiment, the electromagnet is electrically connected to a control knob on an electric stove which activates the burner. Therefore, the electromagnet will be activated simultaneously with the burner to magnetically secure a pot or pan thereto. Either embodiment may include a separate switch means for selectively interrupting power to each of the magnets allowing a user to periodically manipulate the pot or pan.

Abstract: A safety device for a portable stove having a bottom portion, a mounting apparatus for removably securing the portable stove to a substrate of a vehicle, wherein the portable stove having a generally rectangular bottom portion, and a box-shaped frame with a rear side and sidewalls, and at least one burner mounted in the box-shaped frame; a safety/fastening means operably connected between the portable stove and substrate for removably fastening the portable stove and the substrate together and preventing the portable stove from sliding off the substrate; and the safety/fastening means being selected from the group consisting of suction cups, tangs, magnets and combinations thereof.

Abstract: In a kitchen appliance including a refrigerator and a cooker 7 and being intended and suitable for installation in camping vehicles, boats and the like, the cooker 7 is fixedly mounted on the upper side of the refrigerator including at least one gas burner 8 and the relating fittings 12, while the cover plate 13 of the cooker 7 can be assembled and disassembled. The burner 8 and the thermosensors 26 of the cooker 7 are movable in height in limited manner for bearing on a relating opening in the cover plate 13 from bottom and for being connected or screwed, respectively, to a burner head to be put thereon from top. The construction permits simple and quick installation and removal of the refrigerator together with the cooker 7.

Abstract: A safety device for a cooking range having at least one burner grid with supporting radial bars include an open-top receiving member and a plurality of circumferentially spaced anchoring members extending outwardly from the receiving member. Each anchoring member has a pair of spaced legs adapted to straddle one of the radial bars, so that the receiving member is prevented from a lateral and rotational displacement.

Abstract: The invention in the present application is for a cookware safety system that includes a safety ring that depends from the bottom of a conventional cooking utensil. The safety ring includes a plurality of chair members that are annularly spaced apart to form a ring that depends from the bottom of the cooking utensil. In one embodiment, the chair members are mounted directly to the bottom of the cooking utensil. The chair members are annularly spaced, using as a point of origin, a centerline of a handle to a cooking utensil. The spacing is such that the chair members will fit a three, four, six or eight-pronged gas stove top burner. The cookware safety system also includes a lid retainer that includes tabs mounted to the side of the sidewall of the cooking utensil and pins that are either mounted directly to the lid of the cooking utensil or a lid retainer. A trivet is also provided and includes at least one annularly extending channel that is adapted to receive the safety ring of the cooking utensil.

Abstract: The apparatus is multifunctional in that it can be transported, readily and safely, from place to place by means of a vehicle. The transportable barbecue apparatus is detachably attachable to a land vehicle having connection means at the rear thereof, such as a receiver hitch on the rear bumper. The apparatus comprises a barbecue cooker and an support arm, most preferably an articulated support arm, having an inner end portion whereby the arm can be detachably secured at its inner end portion to the connection means so that the apparatus is held above ground level at the rear of the vehicle. Preferably, when the arm is detachably secured in this manner, the arm projects rearwardly from the vehicle in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the rear bumper. The apparatus, supported by the arm, can be utilized with a stand whereby it becomes a stand alone barbecue cooker.

Abstract: A campstove is provided with an adjustable grate legs for supporting a cooking utensil. The grate legs are movable between a compact, storage position and an extended position in which they provide a relatively stable support for a pan or a pot. The campstove includes a base, a fuel tube which extends upwardly from the base, and a burner mounted on the top of the fuel tube. A burner bowl is rotatably mounted on the fuel tube for rotation relative to the base. Each of the grate legs includes a bottom portion which is rotatably mounted in the base, an intermediate portion which extends below the burner bowl away from the axis of rotation of the leg, and a top portion which extends above the bowl toward the axis of rotation. Abutments on the burner bowl are engageable with each of the legs for rotating the legs when the burner bowl is rotated relative to the base.

Abstract: A safety device for a cooking range having at least one burner gird with supporting radial bars include an open-top receiving member and a plurality of circumferentially spaced anchoring members extending outwardly from the receiving member. Each anchoring member has a pair of spaced legs adapted to straddle one of the radial bars, so that the receiving member is prevented from a lateral and rotational displacement.

Abstract: An improved outdoor cooking device is provided, which consists of a barbeque grill. A base is for supporting the barbeque grill. Components are for mounting the support base to a structure in a level stabilized manner, so that the barbeque grill cannot be knocked over when in use.

Abstract: A mounting apparatus for removably securing a portable stove to a fixture of a motor vehicle or boat includes a portable stove having a generally rectangular box shaped frame, a fileting board having a flat, generally rectangular upper surface portion and at least one side wall portion extending upward from one edge of the surface portion of the board. A first fastening means operably connects between the stove and the fileting board for removably fastening the stove and board together and preventing said stove from sliding off of the fileting board. The first fastening means includes a pair of elongated tang members each having one end fastened to the stove and another end extending through one of two apertures in the one side wall portion. A second fastening means operably connects between the fileting board and the boat fixture for removably securing said board to the fixture.

Abstract: Safety apparatus for a stove-top burner, especially for a side cooker apparatus for a gas-fired grill. The safety apparatus is a barrier at least partially surrounding a cooking container placed over the burner. The barrier may be in the form of a band or a plurality of spaced-apart coaxial wires which are secured to a stove top to prevent pots and pans from sliding off the burner. The cooking apparatus for which this safety device is well-suited is a side cooker.

Abstract: A mounting for retaining item (12) to a base (17) comprising a male and female element (11 and 15) to be located on the moveable item (12) or base (17) respectively or vice versa. Said male portion (11) having a disc like configuration and having at least one flange like protrusion (18) at one face thereof and to one side thereof which is spaced from the other face. Said female portion 15 having an aperature (16) at one face thereof which is of corresponding configuration and dimensions as the male member (11) at the other face.

Abstract: A utensil holder (10) has a first ring (12) having securing means therein that are placed on a cooking surface, such as a stove top or grill, surrounding a heat source. A second ring (20) is spaced a predetermined distance above the first ring (12) by a plurality of support means (28,30). A cooking utensil is placed inside of the holder (10) and a plurality of adjustment means (33) are adjusted until they contact the cooking utensil. The cooking utensil is thus held firmly on the cooking surface. Extension pins (40) extend above the second ring (20) to prevent pot lids from sliding off; and, joinder bars (45) coact with the extension pins (40) to fasten two such utensil-holders together.

Abstract: An assembly for supporting a cooking device, such as a barbecue, including a main platform and folding end platforms. The main platform is connected to a shaft which in turn is mounted to a conventional structure such as the rail of a boat by means of a mounting bracket. The support assembly which supports the cooking device thereon, is secured in a level manner above the ground or water. Repositioning of the main platform and end platforms relative to the mounting bracket is accompanied by slidably mounting the main platform to the support shaft. When it is desired to store the support assembly when not in use, the end platforms are folded inward to locations atop the main platform, the mounting bracket and shaft are moved inward toward the main platform, and the support assembly is stored inside the cooking device.

Abstract: The assembly includes a container having two side walls, a rear wall, a top wall and a bottom wall which define in part an interior. An openable and closable door is provided for selectively providing access to the interior, the door being able to move between closed, intermediate and open positions. There is a first apparatus, connected to the door and the container, for permitting the door to rotate about a first axis of rotation between the closed and intermediate positions. There is also a second apparatus, cooperating with the first apparatus and the door, for providing a second axis of rotation spaced apart from the first axis, and for permitting lateral movement of the first axis and arcuate movement of the door about the second axis to permit the door to move below the bottom wall of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting and positioning a cooking utensil with respect to a burner is disclosed. The apparatus includes a movable support which when rotated moves a positioning member into engagement with the utensil. The apparatus forms a pivoted galley stove.

Abstract: A magnetic utensil-holder (10) has a first ring (12) having magnets (19) therein that are placed on a cooking surface, such as a stove top or grill, surrounding a heat source. A second ring (20) is spaced a predetermined distance above the first ring (12) by a plurality of support means (28,30). A cooking utensil is placed inside of the holder (10) and a plurality of adjustment means (33) are adjusted until they contact the cooking utensil. The cooking utensil is thus held firmly on the cooking surface. Extension pins (40) extend above the second ring (20) to prevent pot lids from sliding off; and, joinder bars (45) coact with the extension pins (40) to fasten two such magnetic utensil-holders together.

Abstract: A panel that fits on the top of a stove in a mobile vehicle. The panel has holes registering with the burners in the stove, for receiving the cooking utensils placed on the burners. Confining upstanding flanges surround the holes to retain the cooking utensils against sliding movements in the movements of the vehicle. The panel is held in place by peripheral downturned flanges engaging the side surfaces of the stove, or by engagement of the panel with wall elements at the sides of the stove.

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: A cooking apparatus has a pivotal mounting unit attached to the bed of a pickup truck for supporting a cooking unit thereon. The pivotal mounting unit comprises a vertically extending pivotal support member which supports a pair of horizontally extending parallel rods or tubes which extend into and support a cooking unit slidably mounted thereon. The rods or tubes extend nearly the entire length of the cooking unit and support the cooking unit in a variety of positions.

Abstract: A device for concentrating heat from a flame of a gas stove in combination with a cooking utensil includes a first collar rigidly attached to the cooking utensil and mating with a second collar attached to a grid of the stove. The collars may have several peripherally disposed vents. The second collar can be rotated to align the vents and control the venting of the flame of the stove.

Abstract: A marine stove comprises a valve body for coaxial connection to a nipple on a pressure gas bottle, a tubular mixer coaxially telescopingly threaded into the top of the valve body, a burner above the mixer that is coaxially supported by it, and a grill over the burner, also supported by the mixer. A pivot confined between the valve body and the mixer has opposite laterally projecting coaxial trunnions that define one gimbal axis for the stove. Another gimbal axis is defined by a shaft that has a head at a rear end thereof and a U-shaped yoke at its front with forwardly projecting legs that have upwardly opening grooves wherein the trunnions are received. A mounting plate securable in forwardly offset relation to a bulkhead has a shaft hole through which the head is received. The shaft is rotatably supported in forwardly projecting relation to the plate by a bracket that hooks into the plate and has upwardly projecting abutments between which the shaft is closely received.

Abstract: In a kitchen stove, the trim ring is secured against rotation and against upward removal to the top of the stove. The trim ring and the cooking vessel have an inter-engageable bayonet system to removably clamp the cooking vessel over the electric heating element or over the burner of the stove. In this way, heat is not lost around the side of the cooking vessel and, also, children cannot spill the content of the vessel, which results in a safe cooking system. The same anchoring system is also used to removably secure a vessel to a support surface in order to prevent spilling of the contents of the vessel. For instance, in the kitchen and dining room of a ship where the support surface might tilt, and in a chemical laboratory to avoid accidental spilling of dangerous substances.

Abstract: A range guard is formed of a length of transparent resilient plastic shaped to rest on a range top and provide an upstanding wall along the front edge of the range and rearwardly extending side walls which can be resiliently flexed outwardly and have slots adapted to fit over retaining flanges on brackets secured to the range top so that the guard may be selectively mounted on the range or removed therefrom.

Abstract: A safety device for use on the top of a stove or in combination with a range. The safety device comprises a plate pivotally mounted on the front of the stove, which plate is adapted to be pivoted to a horizontal position overlying the front burners of the stove. The purpose of the device is to prevent small children from touching the hot front burners of the stove or from pulling any pots or pans on the front burners of the stove onto himself.

Abstract: For use with a gas stove having an upper deck provided with at least one opening surrounding a gas burner, a frying attachment comprising a substantially flat tray having raised peripheral edges, legs at each tray corner for supporting the tray above the stove deck to provide an open region between the tray and the deck, and first and second pairs of opposed hooks carried by opposite edges of the tray and extending beneath the tray through the open region to engage a peripheral edge of the burner opening to hold the tray firmly in place.

Abstract: A simple, unitary flexible sheet member designed to be removably secured to the burner region of a stove to prevent dislodgment of a coffee pot or cooking pot. The holder is fabricated from sheet material including a side wall portion and a number of depending legs, each of which terminate in a foot part. The holder is deformable to form generally into a circular shape and is spring action tending to flatten which brings the foot portions into engagement with the lip of the burner opening into the top of the stove. The spring action of the body holds the foot portions into engagement despite movement of the stove, as is common in a recreational vehicle, and the device is automatically adjusted to the size of the burner opening.

Abstract: A device not limited to but particularly adapted for retaining a cooking utensil on gas stoves currently provided in motor homes, pickup campers, trailers, boats and the like, the stove having a bar-type grate secured thereto on which the utensil is supported, comprises a hollow, expandable-circumference cylinder, preferably formed by rolling a sheet metal blank, having means formed integrally therewith for removably securing the same to the grate, the cooking utensil being encircled by and restrained from sliding off the grate by the device.