Abstract: A representative grill includes a grill base, a grill lid, and a grill flue device. The grill lid is in hinged communication with the grill base. The grill flue device includes a front panel and side panels and is pivotally attached to the grill base and the grill lid. In an opened position, the grill lid forms a rear wall and the grill flue device forms a front wall that directs smoke from the grill base through the opening between the grill lid and the grill flue device.

Abstract: A grill includes a grill base and a grill lid that is in hinged communication with the grill base and includes an opening on a top wall of the grill lid. The grill further includes a grill flue that includes a front panel that is in hinged communication with the grill lid at the opening of the top wall of the grill lid, and an opening system that is coupled to the grill base and the grill flue, wherein the opening system assists in erecting the front panel as the grill lid is being opened.

Abstract: An appliance includes a housing having an airflow channel communicating with outside of the appliance; a first chamber in the housing and having a first opening; a first door for selectively closing the first opening, the first door having a first airway communicating with the outside of the appliance; a second chamber in the housing and having a second opening; a second door for selectively closing the second opening, the second door having a second airway communicating with the outside of the appliance; and a fan in the airflow channel. The airflow channel includes a central segment disposed between the first and second chambers and communicating with the first and second airways. When activated, the fan causes ambient air to pass through the first and second airways before entering the central segment so that the first and second doors are cooled off by the ambient air.

Abstract: A heat-cooking apparatus includes blowing means (100) that blows cooling air to an opening (20a) of a heating chamber (20) when a door (11) is opened after steam is supplied to the heating chamber (20) for preparatory operation before heat-cooking or for heat-cooking itself. More specifically, after steam is supplied to the heating chamber (20), when the door (11) is opened, the blowing means (100) drives a conventionally existing cooling fan (101) to suck in cooling air from outside the apparatus, and deflects the cooling air toward the opening (20a) of the heating chamber (20) with a decoration box (102) so that the cooling air is blown to the opening (20a) so as to pass sideways substantially across it. Thus, the cooling air mixes with high-temperature steam that tends to overflow frontward as soon as the door (11) is opened, and thereby lowers the temperature of the steam. This surely prevents the user from being hurt, as by being burnt, with the overflowing steam.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber having an opening, a door configured to open and close the opening of the cooking chamber, the door including a channel and an inlet to allow communication between the cooking chamber and the channel, and an opening/closing unit to open and close the inlet in the door. A door including a first surface, a second surface spaced from the first surface to define a channel between the first surface and the second surface, an inlet formed in the second surface, the inlet being in flow communication with the channel, an outlet formed in one of the first surface and the second surface, the outlet being in flow communication with the channel, and an opening/closing unit to open and close the inlet in the second surface is also provided.

Abstract: An appliance is disclosed. The appliance includes a main body defining a cavity and an air channel which is in flow communication with an outside of the appliance; an access door supported by the main body for selectively closing the cavity, the access door having an airway in flow communication with the outside of the appliance and the air channel; a fan disposed in the air channel; and an Human Machine Interface disposed on or in the access door. When activated, the fan causes ambient air from the outside of the appliance to pass through the airway before entering the air channel so that the access door is cooled off by the ambient air.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a wall oven has a cooking cavity surrounded by a baffled cavity. The wall oven has a door for restricting access to the cooking cavity. A control cavity has a front surface maintaining controls for operation of the wall oven. An exhaust fan is in flow communication with the control cavity and the baffled cavity for directing air from the control cavity and the baffled cavity into an exhaust cavity. An air divider separates the control cavity from the exhaust cavity. A method for cooling a control panel of a wall oven is also disclosed.

Abstract: A cooking device includes a cabinet, a cavity installed in the cabinet and having a cooking chamber therein, a door installed at the cabinet to open and close the cooking chamber, a ventilation passage formed to allow external air of the cabinet to pass through between the cavity and the cabinet so as to be discharged, a blower installed in the ventilation passage, and a cooking chamber air discharge unit for discharging air from the interior of the cooking chamber through the ventilation passage. Because the heated air inside the cooking chamber can be cooled by air which passes through the ventilation passage and then discharged, when the door is opened, heated air cannot be directly discharged to a user from the cooking chamber.

Abstract: A wood burning stove is provided. The combustion chamber in which the fire occurs has a baffle plate that is moveable to direct air flow through one of two different pathways from the combustion chamber to the chimney. When in a first position, the baffle plate forces the air and smoke to move through a first pathway; when in a second position, a by-pass pathway is opened, allowing air and smoke to move through a second pathway. The stove can have a door in the front wall, or the top wall, or both walls, to provide access to the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A wood burning stove is provided. The combustion chamber in which the fire occurs has a baffle plate that is moveable to direct air flow through one of two different pathways from the combustion chamber to the chimney. When in a first position, the baffle plate forces the air and smoke to move through a first pathway; when in a second position, a by-pass pathway is opened, allowing air and smoke to move through a second pathway. The stove can have a door in the front wall, or the top wall, or both walls, to provide access to the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A combustion system includes a primary combustion chamber divided into left and right sides by fuel-retaining standards defining a canyon or void extending into a secondary combustion chamber is provided. The combustion system includes an automatic air setting mechanism for controlling an air delivery system in the combustion system comprises. The automatic air setting mechanism includes a control for controlling an air passage of the air delivery system and a lock for locking the control. A sensor is also provided which senses the temperature of the combustion chamber so that when the temperature reaches a predetermined value the locking mechanism releases the control.

Abstract: A combustion system includes a primary combustion chamber divided into left and right sides by fuel-retaining standards defining a canyon or void extending into a secondary combustion chamber is provided. The floor of the primary combustion chamber and the fuel-retaining standards direct the burning solid fuel toward the lower part of the canyon, while at the same time retaining the non-burning solid fuel on either side of the fuel-retaining standards. The combustion system further includes an air delivery system having a lower air tube supplying high and low velocity air and an upper air tube. The lower air tube is positioned proximate to a firebox floor, while the upper air tube is positioned within the secondary chamber. Automatic air setting mechanisms are provided so that proper air settings can be maintained during various phases of a fire.

Abstract: A single cavity gas oven and grill unit provided with an oven burner (14) and an independent grill burner (15). A flue (12) has a flap (16) pivotable between a closed position for the oven mode and an open position for the griling mode. The flap (16) is connected by a first linkage to a selector (13) and by a second linkage to a dual gas tap. For the oven mode the selector (13) closes the flap which in turn prevents the gas tap operating the grill. When the grill is on, the gas tap holds the flap open which in turn holds the selector in a position to prevent the oven door being closed.

Abstract: In order to eliminate flue gases generated in combustion of fuels in heating stoves a heating stove (1) is designed with a duct (14) above the fireplace (5) and closeable by means of a damper (16), whereby the flue gases pass through the bed of embers generated during combustion. A hearth (6) for the bed of embers is designed with obliquely set flat surfaces (26) for attaining of a concentrated bed of embers. There is located in the combustion chamber (58) of the heating stove (1) below the hearth (6) an aperture (9), which communicates with flue ducts (11), which communicate in turn with a flue (20), which discharges the flue gases from the heating stove. By means of a filling hatch (15) access can be gained to the interior of the said duct (14) to fill the heating stove and its fireplace with fuel.

Abstract: A fireplace screen arrangement is disclosed which includes a frame upon which a pair of mesh screen doors are pivotally mounted for movement between closed and open positions with respect to the fireplace. A damper assembly is provided for regulating the amount of air which is admitted to the fireplace through the screen arrangement. In order to provide convenient opening of the screen doors, a door-opening mechanism is provided which includes a door-engaging lever fulcrummed for pivoting movement with respect to the frame. An operating knob is operatively connected with the door-engaging lever so that inward movement of the knob moves the screen doors from their closed position. In the preferred embodiment, the operating knob is operatively connected with a movable damper plate for moving the damper plate laterally to regulate air admitted through the damper assembly.

Abstract: A highly compact oven for preparing barbecued foods on a commercial basis includes a cabinet having a vertical partition wall that divides its interior into an oven chamber and an equipment compartment, and a door which closes the front of the oven chamber. In addition, the oven has a rotisserie for supporting foods in the upper portion of the oven chamber, and this rotisserie is turned by a motor in the equipment compartment. A firebox in which wood is burned is located in the lower portion of the oven chamber to provide the heat required for cooking the food and the smoke for imparting the barbecue flavor to that food. Food on the rotisserie is shielded from the firebox by a baffle wall which extends across the oven chamber, yet has its margins spaced from the back wall and door, so that heated air and smoke circulate freely between the region of the firebox and the region of the rotisserie.

Abstract: This stove is divided by a partition into a lower, combustion chamber, and an upper chamber which communicates directly with an exhaust opening in the stove. A catalytic converter is removably mounted in an opening in the partition. A by-pass damper, which is connected to the stove door, is normally held closed over a by-pass opening in the wall of the lower chamber, when the door to the stove is closed, whereby all combustion gases from the lower chamber must pass upwardly through the converter and the secondary chamber to the exhaust opening. When the stove door is opened, the by-pass damper tilts by gravity into an open position so that combustion gases from the lower chamber pass directly to the exhaust opening rather through the upper chamber, and rather than being accidentally discharged out of the open door. The converter causes all by-products of combustion to be subjected to a secondary combustion in the converter before passing to the exhaust opening.

Abstract: A jacketed wood burning stove of the type having an inner firebox door and an outer jacket door in front of the firebox door and wherein a flash inhibitor is provided consisting of a relatively small auxiliary firebox door which is manually biased open but is held closed by an engaging bracket on the outer jacket door when the outer jacket door is closed.

Abstract: A wood or coal-burning stove or fireplace has a baffle attached to a flue. Upon opening of the stove door or the fireplace door, the baffle is automatically adjusted to increase the amount of air admitted to the stove or fireplace and thus prevents smoke from coming out of the doors.

Abstract: A device for preventing blow back through the fuel loading door in stoves or heaters in which the rate of combustion is controlled by restricting the supply of air to the combustion chamber. When the stove is burning during normal operation the fuel loading door is closed and an air inlet to the combustion chamber is blocked by a pan member of the outer cabinet door. A thermostatic damper controls the rate of combustion in the combustion chamber by restricting the quantity of air supplied via other air intakes. When the outer cabinet door is opened to gain access to the fuel loading door, the pan member on the cabinet door is moved away from the air inlet to the combustion chamber thereby allowing additional air to enter the combustion chamber via the air inlet to the combustion chamber. The additional air supplied via this air inlet increases the rate of combustion prior to the opening of the fuel loading door.

Abstract: A wood or coal burning stove has a main opening from the fire box into a heating chamber at a remote location from the flue exit from that chamber so the combustion gases must move around within the chamber before escaping and an auxiliary opening from the fire box directly to the flue exit, there being a movable closure which closes the auxiliary opening when the front door is closed and which is operatively connected to the front door so it is opened when the front door is opened.

Abstract: Hinged doors are provided on the front of a stove for sealably closing across a large opening through which logs can be loaded into a firebox within the stove. A cylindrical draft chamber is formed on an exterior surface of one or each of the doors. A draft cap is rotatable on a threaded stud which is coaxially secured in the cylindrical draft chamber. The draft cap includes an annular flange forming a sliding close-tolerance fit with an interior cylindrical wall of the draft chamber so that the cap can be rotated to vary the size of the draft chamber to selectively restrict the flow of air from a source through the draft chamber to the firebox whenever the doors are closed.

Abstract: A damper control system wherein a control screw is threadedly mounted in a door and engages a depending contact arm on a damper to move the damper between a closed position and various open positions.

Abstract: A stove of the wood burning type is provided with a smoke passage having a main opening adjacent the access door of the stove and an auxiliary opening therein which is located further away from the access door and more closely adjacent the rear portion of the smoke passage and the chimney than the main opening. A regulator damper controls the rate of flow of products of combustion from the combustion chamber through the main opening and the smoke passage to the chimney, and an auxiliary damper normally closes the auxiliary opening when the access door is in a normally closed position.

Abstract: A solid fuel burning heater has an inner combustion chamber housing enclosed within an outer housing with a fuel feed door in the inner combustion chamber housing being aligned with an outer housing door; an air inlet in the bottom of the combustion chamber housing has a thermostatically controlled air inflow closure valving member connected to a wire bail having an upper end encircling a cam rod connected to the outer housing door. Opening movement of the outer housing door moves the cam rod so that the air inflow closure valving member is opened to provide combustion air into the combustion chamber and prevent blowback upon the subsequent opening of the fuel feed door.