Heating Fluid Is A Liquid Or Steam Patents (Class 126/377.1)
  • Patent number: 11045033
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a double cooking container having improved stability and improved heating efficiency. Particularly, the double cooking container has a double structure in which an inner cylinder is formed inside an outer cylinder, a heat retaining space formed by inserting the inner cylinder into the inside of the outer cylinder and thus maintaining a predetermined interval between the bottom of the outer cylinder and the bottom of the inner cylinder, and a side fluid channel formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder to communicate with the heat retaining space, wherein a plurality of discharge holes communicating with the side fluid channel are formed in the outer cylinder, and the entire sectional area of the discharge holes is controlled to be within a predetermined range in order to implement high heating efficiency as well as ensure stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Cha Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 10986843
    Abstract: A multi-compartment oven provides a side directed drainage system permitting moisture removal from the cavities without interference with the integrity of lower cavity volumes and permitting removability of cavity dividers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Lee Thomas VanLanen, Jeff Maddox
  • Patent number: 10773865
    Abstract: A container including a base and a lid that is releasably attached to the base. The lid includes a channel that extends around a perimeter of the lid. At least one inlet opening provides fluid communication between an interior of the container and the channel, and at least one outlet opening provides fluid communication between the channel and atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: FIRST QUALITY PACKAGING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Strachan
  • Patent number: 10494149
    Abstract: The invention proceeds from a tube produced from a plastics material, having a tube body, which has a first end and a second end, having a tube head, which is connected to the tube body at the first end and has a removal opening, and having a tube fold which is formed at the second end and has a first sealing surface and a second sealing surface, wherein the first and the second sealing surfaces are connected to one another in a fluid-tight manner. According to the invention, the sealing surfaces have arranged between them a retaining insert, which is connected to the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface in a fluid-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Johann Kunz
  • Patent number: 10494986
    Abstract: A cap for a coolant reservoir that accommodates the expansion of coolant stored therein. The expanding coolant results from an increase in temperature and causes an increase in pressure to build within the coolant reservoir. The cap includes a base and a crown having an air-dome which extends upwardly therefrom. The base includes a passageway extending therethrough and in fluid communication with an interior cavity or an “air gap” formed in the crown. As the cap is positioned over an open neck of the coolant reservoir, by being screwed or otherwise fitted thereon, the interior cavity remains positioned above the neck. Thus, as the coolant within the coolant reservoir becomes heated and expands, the interior cavity provides additional space for the coolant to occupy and pressure to build within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jukkrit Noppakunkajorn, Sudhir Kumar
  • Patent number: 10010212
    Abstract: A cooking accessory for a springform pan includes a reusable, expandable sleeve, with a demarcation cooking bath fill line. The cooking accessory for a springform pan may be useful for preventing liquid from a cooking bath from entering between the removable bottom and the clasped collar of a springform pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventor: Cheryl A O'Reilly
  • Patent number: 9828140
    Abstract: A container for containing generally flowable solid or liquid materials and capable of being hung in an inverted position is provided. The container includes a container body and a protruding hook-shaped handle, wherein the hook-shaped handle is arranged in L-shaped or inverted-hook configuration according to which a hooking space is formed oriented towards a top rim of the container. By hanging the container in an inverted position, the container is able to rapidly rinse and dry out after washing, while keeping the container top rim in the air and avoiding contamination of the container. The hook-shaped handle further allows the container to be conveniently and temporarily hung from a bowl sidewall, taking up no countertop or table space. The hook-shaped handle preferably protrudes from the base of the container to contribute to container stability when placed in an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Gloria Molina
  • Patent number: 9649221
    Abstract: A housing for soaking a hand with arthritis, trauma, or skin conditions. The housing may include an outside container and an inside container. The outside container may house the components. There may be a channel between the inside container and the outside container. The present invention may include a heating element and an impeller within the channel. In certain embodiments, the heating element and impeller housing may be attached to the bottom of a lid that covers the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventor: Jerome James Fleming
  • Patent number: 9004018
    Abstract: The efficiencies of illustrative embodiments of vertical center flue type fuel-fired base water heaters are improved by installing in the water heaters variously configured tubular condensing type secondary heat exchangers of smaller diameters than the associated center flues. The efficiency increases are achieved with components and manufacturing processes similar to those utilized in the base water heaters and secondary heat exchanger materials similar to those in the tank portions of the base water heaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jozef Boros, Qian Zhang, Yoshiki Semba, Subbu Thenappan
  • Publication number: 20140370176
    Abstract: A cookware object, system and method of cooking are provided. The cookware object includes raised ridges and recessed channels within a base of the object that is designed to hold water (or other liquid), and a lid to retain/promote steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Mamoru Imura, Michael Johnson
  • Publication number: 20140137857
    Abstract: A cooking appliance, including: a cavity forming a cooking space of foods; a steam generator to generate steam for cooking the foods; a cooking container placed on a support part formed in the cavity, and having a cooking chamber to cook the foods and a steam hole to supply the steam generated from the steam generator; and a container cover to cover the cooking container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongseong KWAG, Yangkyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 8618447
    Abstract: The fryer (1) for cooking a food product, comprises a main body (2) for housing a tilted container (3) adapted to receive the cooking oil, a tilted basket for containing the food product, positioned in an extractable manner in the container, first (30, 31) and second heating means (49), a selector for selecting a first cooking mode in a first volume of oil with the first heating means or a second cooking mode in a second volume of oil greater than the first volume of oil with the second heating means, and rotation means (17) adapted to operate in rotation the basket (11) or at least a mixing paddle (13) present or positionable inside the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Inventor: Giuseppe De' Longhi
  • Publication number: 20130220301
    Abstract: A food cooking device includes a cooking structure defining a volume for receiving food product to be cooked, and a heating arrangement for heating food product within the volume. The heating arrangement includes a gas burner system that includes a blower and fuel gas flow feed device arranged such that operation of the blower draws in ambient air and the flow of ambient air through the blower in turn draws fuel gas from the fuel gas flow control device such that a ratio of fuel gas to ambient air remains substantially the same regardless of blower speed. A burner is connected to receive the fuel gas and ambient air mixture from the blower. A controller is connected for controlling blower speed, the controller configured to vary the blower speed between at least two different non-zero blower speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Atul Saksena, Timothy L. Cupp, Jeffrey L. Frock, Larry W. Lyons
  • Publication number: 20130104875
    Abstract: A lid for a pressure cooking pot includes a lower lid module having an edged lid fitted on a pouring edge of the pressure cooking pot, and a seal sealing the lower lid module when fitted on the pouring edge. An upper lid module includes a closure unit movable between a first position in which the upper and lower lid modules are locked to one another and a second position in which the upper module is separable from the lower module. Fixing claws are coupled to the closure unit and engages under the pouring edge of the pressure cooking pot, when the closure unit is in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SILAG HANDEL AG
    Inventors: Horst Schultz, Siegfried Lapawa
  • Patent number: 7468497
    Abstract: A heatable container suitable for material such as bitumen. The container includes a vessel for holding a flowable material having side wall zones, end wall zones and a base wall zone. The container also includes a heating system for transferring heat to at least the base wall zone as well as a zone disposed along a central longitudinal axis of the vessel. The heating system may also included at least two internal heating ducts for conveying a heat transfer medium, wherein the ducts are disposed substantially parallel relative to the central longitudinal axis of the vessel, and are vertically and horizontally spaced apart relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Cont-Asphalt Ltd.
    Inventor: Jacques Grisoni
  • Patent number: 7387713
    Abstract: A sacrificial anode assembly operative to inhibit corrosion in the metal tank portion of a water heater includes a cylindrical metal anode member having an end retained within a tubular, electrically non-conductive plastic insulating sleeve which, in turn, is captives retained within a metal cap portion of the assembly. A resistor is received in an end surface groove of the sleeve and has a lead wire spot-welded or soldered to a core wire portion of the anode member. To prevent contact between the lead wire and the metal cap, and to protect the lead wire against vibration caused breakage at its spot weld or solder area, a U-shaped central portion of the lead wire is received in a through-opening in the resistor-supporting end of the sleeve which is covered by an annular insulating wafer formed from an electrically non-conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Ronald D. Marcelino, James S. Roden
  • Patent number: 7030341
    Abstract: A frying vessel having heating elements placed within a cylindrical sleeve so as to direct a current of heated frying fat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Inventor: Ulrich Maurer
  • Publication number: 20030145847
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an apparatus and to a method for cleaning a cooking appliance comprising a heater, a blower, a steam generator, a cooking chamber, a cooking chamber drain, a steam condenser and a cooking appliance drain, whereby the steam condenser is arranged between the cooking chamber drain and the cooking appliance drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Martin Deuringer, Hubert Brunner, Elmar Junker, Manfred Breunig, Michael Herner, Judith Imgram, Peter Wiedmann
  • Patent number: 6401602
    Abstract: A multipurpose cooking pan has an outward top flange round the top open side thereof, slots and holes on the outward top flange for guiding external heat energy into the inside of the cooking pan during cooking, an endless positioning groove on the outward top flange for the positioning of the pan cover covering the cooking pan, and at least one sloping guide notch cut through a part of the outward top flange for enabling liquid means to be guided out of the cooking pan when the user tilting the cooking pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Inventor: Shao Chiu Lin
  • Patent number: 6305272
    Abstract: An energy-efficient cooker is formed of a main body, an insulation body made integrally with the main body, a base body fitted over the bottom of the main body for making contact with a heat source, and a lid covering an open top of the main body. The main body is provided with a vacuum space which is partially filled with an action fluid to bring about a fast and uniform heat transfer. The insulation body, the base body and the lid are provided with a vacuum space to minimize the loss of heat of the food that is cooked and contained in the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Hsiu Man Lin