Abstract: A splatter screen may be releasably retained to a cookware item to prevent splatter of hot food items and the like from the cookware item during cooking. A rim of the splatter screen is constructed and arranged to be releasably retained within an upper rim portion of the cookware item. Any number of spring clips may be attached to the rim of the splatter screen for releasably retention of a cover of the cookware item to the splatter screen. A grip portion of a handle, attached to the rim of the splatter screen, is constructed and arranged to accommodate a handle of the cookware item with which the splatter screen is intended to be used.

Abstract: A cover hood for a cooking utensil, such as a pot, kettle, pan, or the like, which includes a conical hood made from a spray protection grid and a bearing part comprising a bearing ring attached to a lower edge of the hood and protruding substantially horizontally from the lower edge of the hood. The spray protection grid is made of a wire mesh or a perforated metal plate material.

Abstract: A ventilation hood (1, 2) for cooking stoves (20) comprising a generally U-shaped shell having an upper portion (2) and a lower portion (1), the upper portion being transparent, and the lower portion being highly heat resistant. The shell is open in the front, covered transparently at the top, and is tall enough to allow convenient access to the cook top (21). It transmits illumination to the cook top from available lighting above the hood. It catches fumes rising from the cook top, guides them to a conventional exhaust fan inlet (23) at the back of the cook top, and blocks any spatter projected from the cook top toward the sides, back, or upward.

Abstract: An improved spatter shielding and vapor venting device for a frying pan comprising a transparent lid to enable visual observation of cooking, a peripheral venting gap to release generated fumes and vapors, a vertical hollow cylindrical wall to rapidly return condensed oil to frying pan, a handle to hold the device steady, a peripheral horizontal flange and size expansion adapter to facilitate placement on rims of frying pans of varying sizes, a vertical cylindrical flange to restrict lateral motion and to shield the contact area between the horizontal flange and frying pan rim, a vertical window opening for the introduction, removal, stirring and turning over of food, a hands-free opening and automatic closing window cover means to effectively shield the window opening even while performing said cooking operations, a loop-and-pin hinged system to facilitate stuck-proof withdrawal of inserted instrument through said window opening.

Abstract: A guard device for protecting the front panel of a smoke exhauster is provided. The device comprises generally a rectangular guard plate slidingly held in a pair of securing appendages which are respectively secured to the ends of the front panel and each has a sliding space, a fillet and a hook member therein. So that the guard plate is snap fitted and repeatedly slides about the sliding space in order to protect the front panel of the smoke exhauster from contaminated with oil and grime.

Abstract: An appliance backsplash assembly includes a cover with a face having an opening for viewing and setting a clock. Top and bottom walls extend rearward of the face. An upper rear wall projects downward from the top wall and a lower rear wall projects upward from the bottom wall. A pair of mounting clips are positioned in the backsplash on each side of the opening. Each clip has a base extending vertically along the face, with a top arm and a bottom arm extending rearward along the top and bottom walls respectively. The clock includes a housing sized to overlie the opening and overlap the clips. Threaded connectors mount the clock housing to the clips and flex the clips to cause the clip bases to firmly engage the cover face and the top and bottom arms to firmly engage the top and bottom walls. The top arms include distal ends which engage the upper rear wall and the bottom arms include distal ends received in slots in the lower rear wall.

Abstract: A guard device for protecting the front panel of a smoke exhauster is provided. The device comprises generally a rectangular guard plate slidingly held in a pair of securing appendages which are secured to the ends of the front panel and each has a slot, a fillet and a hook member. The guard plate is snap fitted and repeatedly slides about the slot in order to protect the front panel of the smoke exhauster from contamination with oil and grime.

Abstract: Arcuate shield segments form a collar around the perimeter of a frying pan cooking surface while suspended within the pan side walls for containing splattering grease within the fry pan. Tabs extending from lower edge portions of the shield segments permit attachment to pans having various size openings. Multiple shield segments are removably attached to each other and aligned to surround the pan cooking surface. The segments are removably attached such that a handle removes all segments simultaneously or a single segment when access through the shield wall is desired. Each segment is dimensioned for convenience in cleaning and storage of the multiple segments.

Abstract: A protective and warming bonnet for food having two, preferably, semi-circularly curved braces 1,2 whose ends are connected to hinges (5,6). These braces may be pivoted from 0.degree. to a maximum of 180.degree. in relation to one another. A folding bellows 4 is arranged between the two braces 1,2 such that when pivoted apart, the braces 1,2 form a bellows-like dome. In one embodiment, the protective and warming bonnet has a continuous base 14 in the form of a serving platter on which the braces 1,2 rest during use. A carrying handle 13 of round-steel or a tube is hooked to the hinges 5,6 on the braces 1,2. This carrying handle 13 rests in a notch or a slot at the hinge 5,6 so that it is no longer pivotable in relation to the base while under the pressure resulting from carrying such.

Abstract: A spatter shielding and vapor venting device for a frying pan comprising a transparent lid to enable visual observation of cooking, a peripheral venting gap to release generated fumes and vapors, a vertical hollow cylindrical wall to rapidly return condensed oil to frying pan, a handle to hold the device steady, a horizontal flange to facilitate placement on rims of frying pans of varying sizes, a vertical cylindrical flange to restrict lateral motion and to shield the contact area between the horizontal flange and frying pan rim, a vertical window opening for the introduction, removal, stirring and turning over of food, a hands-free opening and automatic closing window cover means to effectively shield the window opening even while performing said cooking operations.

Abstract: A vented lid for baking and frying on a flat pan is provided. The vented lid includes a glass frustro-conically shaped lid having a centrally located ventilating hole at the top. The frustro-conical wall inclines at a 47 degree angle and includes a handle secured to an outer surface of the lid. An oil gathering plate having a large through hole formed in the center and having a recess formed around the through hole. Several reverse S-shaped hooks are formed on the perimeter of the flange of the plate to secure a flange of the glass lid thereto. A slit is formed between the flange of the glass lid and the plate when they are coupled together. During cooking, cool air enters through the slit and hot air rises out through the central ventilating hole.

Abstract: A grease or splatter shield for kitchen ranges and stoves comprising a flexible vinyl material having an edge mounted upon the range adjacent the burner controls whereby the shield may be extended to overlie and protect the controls during cooking, and retracted to provide access to the controls. In a variation, the shield may be wound upon an auto-wind roller mounted upon the range permitting the shield to be readily extended, and automatically retracted.

Abstract: A spatter guard (10) which attaches to recreational vehicle folding stove top covers (18) having a hook (12) and a magnetic strip (15) so as to engage either magnetic or non-magnetic types of covers.

Abstract: A catch pan for a standard broiler includes a trough extending behind the grille below the level of the grille surface. One side of the trough hooks over the ridge present in the standard broiler, and the other side of the trough extends upward to form a stop plate for debris scraped from the grille. Handles permit the catch pan to be lifted off the ridge for cleaning.

Abstract: A food mixer is provided with a bowl guard consisting of a fixed first semi-cylindrical splash guard portion and a removable semi-cylindrical second see-through portion pivotable about a cylindrical mixer transmission. The second portion is suspended from the transmission by spaced guide shoes mounted on a circumferential ring at the upper end of the pivotable portion. The shoes slidingly engage a fixed track extending horizontally and circumferentially around the transmission portion. The improvement consists of the track being provided as an essentially continuous bead formed in a cylindrical sheet metal band covering the transmission portion. The bead is integral with the band and may be created by rolling or spinning it into the band with metal forming tools.

Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a removable hood for use over the grill or broiler section of a counter top stove such as a Jen-Air.TM. stove having a suction exhaust inlet centered between the burners in the counter top.

Abstract: A splatter capture shield for impingement ovens. The shield has a plurality of elements which are vertically overlapping but not physically touching to allow the jetted air streams of the impingement oven into a baking pan, but not to allow escaping gas with entrained grease to pass through the shield without hitting one of the shield elements. The vaporized grease collects on the shield elements and then drips back down on the food item, thus self-basting the food item.

Abstract: This device is designed to cover food being cooked in an oven, so as to prevent splatter on the walls of the oven. Primarily, it consists of a base rim of channel shape which is secured to a dome shaped mesh screen. An alternate embodiment of the invention is provided with a mechanism for varying the size according to the pan and/or oven with which the device is to cooperate with.

Abstract: A perforated cover assembly is made of two oppositely dished shell members releasably interconnected at their peripheries to define a space therebetween. The lower shell member has a plurality of outlet perforations spread over substantially its entire surface and each of which is raised relative to the immediately surrounding surface of the member to prevent liquids flowing out of such perforations in use. The dished lower shell member has a central lowermost region with drainage perforations therethrough. The upper shell member has at least one large perforation and/or a plurality of small ones offset from those in the lower shell member. Preferably the upper shell member has a central funnel inlet for pouring liquids through the cover by way of the drainage perforations in the lower shell member.

Abstract: A semi-permanent and collapseable shield of metal foil is pleated concertina-like to present a U-shaped half circular body capable when open, to surround a stove heating element and a cooking pot thereon, to catch the splatter from the pot. The shield is capable of being stacked with other shields for packaging in multiples.

Abstract: A lid that covers an entire opening surface of a cooking pan for frying is formed with a transparent window portion that permits the see-through of the inside of the pan, and the lid is provided with a mounting mechanism so as to be mountable on the cooking pan without any fabrication for fitting on the cooking pan, and the lid is also provided with a gas ventilating mechanism for providing a gap to ventilate the gas along the curved opening edge of the cooking pan proper and the lid to capture almost completely the oil splash moving straight forward in the lid mounted condition by utilizing the straight forwardness of the oil splash occurring in the cooking pan and the curved forwardness of the gas, and the lid is provided with an opening/closing mechanism for allowing the lid to be mounted on the cooking pan proper by keeping the narrow gap for preventing a fire from occurring by keeping the oxygen short condition in the cooking pan when the lid is mounted thereof between the opening edge of the pan proper

Abstract: An air conditioning system comprises sensor means arranged at a location for sensing the air condition at said location, and air delivery means arranged at the location, the air delivery means being responsive to the sensor means to deliver air to the location in accordance with the prevailing air condition. The system is particularly useful in a building having a plurality of locations. In this case, separate sensor means and an associated air delivery means are arranged at each location so that a controlled air supply can be delivered to each location in accordance with the air condition at that location and independently of the air condition at the other locations.

Abstract: A cooking unit having a hood equipped with air cleaning structures and blowers for moving air through the cleaning structures. The air cleaning structures include a pre-filter having spaced baffles for collecting air borne greases and particles. A primary fiber filter and secondary charcoal and oxidizer beds are located downstream of the pre-filter. A high efficiency filter is located downstream of the secondary cleaning beds. A damper behind the pre-filter closes in response to an increase in temperature of the air moving through the filters. A separate heating unit is used to reactivate the charcoal.

Abstract: A frying pan used for cooking food is provided with a lid covering the entire open part of the frying pan, and this lid is inclined on its top surface, and an opening for placing the cooking food is provided in this inclined surface, and a transparent lid plate is provided over the opening to enable a user to see into the inside of the frying pan. A gas discharging passageway is provided between the lid plate and the edge of the opening portion of the lid, and the lid plate is provided with an opening/closing mechanism for closing the lid.

Abstract: A frying pan is provided with a lid plate covering almost the entire opening of the pan, and this lid plate is transparent so that the inside of the pan can be seen by a user from the outside, and the lid plate is provided with a mounting mechanism for detachably mounting the lid plate to the pan, and is provided with a gas discharging passageway having a gap for discharging the gas to cause it to flow in a curved path which is formed between the lid plate and an edge of the opening of the frying pan in order to capture the oil splashing almost completely in the lid closed condition, and is provided with an opening/closing mechanism for closing the lid by maintaining a gap between the lid plate and the edge of opening portion of the frying pan.

Abstract: A frame supports a spatter-intercepting screen positioned adjacent burners of a cooking stove. Grease particles and the like are trapped by the screen to protect walls and appliances near the stove. The screen is substantially transparent and easily cleaned, and in one version can be moved to a retracted position in the frame when the stove is not in use.

Abstract: A removable frame supports a spater-intercepting screen positioned adjacent burners of a cooking stove. Grease particles and the like are trapped by the screen to protect walls and appliances near the stove. The screen is substantially transparent and easily cleaned, and in one version can be moved to a retracted position in the frame when the stove is not in use.

Abstract: A shield, impervious to liquids, for use in positioning behind a plant while the plant is being sprayed with water for example, which shield is provided with a trough at its bottom edge to provide a retaining well, stiffen the shield, and provide weight for maintaining the same upright. The plant may thus be watered, the leaves sprayed or washed, without damage to surrounding windows or furniture, as the trough gathers the excess water which runs down the shield and into the trough.

Abstract: A screen device for use in preventing grease from splattering within a stove oven while broiling food is disclosed. The screen device includes means for adjusting the height of the screen above an oven rack upon which the screen may be placed. In addition, the screen is provided with leg members which allow the screen to be attached directly to the broiler coils of an electric oven. The present invention is particularly constructed to prevent grease from splattering up to the flame or broiler coils of the oven.

Abstract: A frying pan grease shield is presented consisting of an integral imperforate hollow shell having a planar open bottom edge having a top and surrounding walls on three sides extending down to the bottom edge and leaving one side open where the frying pan handle will stick out. A continuous grease accumulation trough surrounds the bottom edge on the inner side and the top and walls are inclined so that hot fat or grease will flow by gravity along the top and walls and into the trough.

Abstract: A spatter shielding and vapor venting device for a frying pan comprising a transparent lid to enable visual observation of cooking, a peripheral venting gap to release generated fumes and vapors, a vertical hollow cylindrical wall to rapidly return condensed oil to frying pan, a handle to hold the device steady, a horizontal flange to facilitate placement on rims of frying pans of varying sizes, a vertical cylindrical flange to restrict lateral motion and to shield the contact area between the horizontal flange and frying pan rim, a vertical window opening for the introduction, removal, stirring and turning over of food, a hands-free opening and automatic closing window cover means to effectively shield the window opening even while performing said cooking operations.