Abstract: A food roasting apparatus is disclosed, comprising a pot having: a base wall and a cylindrical sidewall contiguous therewith, the base wall and sidewall defining a pot surface, the sidewall surrounding a central pot axis and extending upwardly from the base wall to terminate in a rim encircling an upper pot opening; two gas burners; a cradle for supporting the pot above the burners in selectively removable relation, with the base wall positioned downwardly from the pot opening and the pot axis angled with respect to horizontal, for rotation of the pot about the pot axis; and a motor for effecting the rotation of the pot.

Abstract: Cooking apparatus includes apparatus to support food to be cooked. A housing surrounds a portion of the support apparatus and defines a portal through which food may be passed into the housing. A fireplace is disposed in the housing to support a fire that produces heated gas for cooking food. The fireplace may include a solid fuel burning grate to support solid fuel used as a flavor enhancing substance to the food being cooked with the grate having a body with apertures through which hot coal is discharged. A hot coal supporting device is disposed beneath the grate to receive the hot coals discharged from the solid fuel burning grate and has a body with apertures through which ash is discharged. An ash bin is disposed beneath the hot coal supporting device to receive the discharged ash. A heated gas passageway is provided in the housing to place the heated gas in fluid communication with an environment outside of a building in which the housing is disposed.

Abstract: A barbecue rotisserie apparatus comprising a conventional barbecue apparatus and a novel rotisserie apparatus. The rotisserie apparatus comprises a ring having a substantially U-shaped cross section, rollers that are rotatably secured within their axis of rotation within the ring U cross section, and a drive apparatus secured to the barbecue for rolling the ring around the bowl of the barbecue apparatus. A bracket means on the ring supports the grill. The drive apparatus comprises a motor, friction wheel, and rigid enclosure.

Abstract: A rotary broiler assembly includes a rotisserie structure rotatable about a fixed axis. The rotisserie structure has a holding device radially spaced from the axis for holding a food item such as chicken thereon. When the rotisserie structure is rotated, the holding device revolves in an orbital fashion about the axis to define a path of orbital movement. A heat source is positioned within the path of orbital movement so that rotation of the rotisserie structure causes the food item to revolve about the heat source to thereby cook the food item.

Abstract: The invention is an oven system for roasting, cooking, baking and regenerating, as well as for grilling foodstuffs by supplying heat into a cooking space of the oven. The oven system includes at least one slide-in frame movable into and out of the cooking space, respectively, the slide-in frame having at least two respectively connected rotating discs which are rotatably supported on the opposing inner sides of the slide-in frame. The oven system also includes receivers for the foodstuffs which are releasably attached to the rotating discs and at least one drive mechanism mounted on the oven for rotating a rotating disc. The drive is engageable with and disengageable from the rotating disc.

Abstract: An improved hood for a cooking apparatus, such as an outdoor barbecue grill. The hood includes integrally formed hinges on the sides thereof comprising a pin-in-saddle assembly. The hood also includes a stop for limiting the rearward travel of the lid with respect to the cooking surface.

Abstract: There is provided an adjustable rotisserie having a fire bowl containing a heat source. An elongated rotatable shaft including a pair of prongs attached thereto for holding the food to be cooked is located above the fire bowl. A frame assembly which may be continuously raised and lowered contacts the shaft. The frame assembly, and thus the food, is raised and lowered by a jack which contacts the frame assembly. A motor is attached to the frame assembly for rotating the shaft so that the shaft may be continuously raised and lowered with respect to the fire bowl while the shaft is continuously rotated.

Abstract: A cooking grill for cooking food with heat supplied by a heat source within the grill includes a substantially rectangular box structure which defines an open top chamber, and a lid which is connected to the box structure and is adapted to cover the chamber. A food supporting rack is positioned within said chamber and is connected to said box structure. The food supporting rack covers a first area of the chamber. A first burner is positioned within a second area of the chamber, with the second area being spaced laterally from the first area. With the burner being spaced from the food supporting rack, drippings from the food do not fall onto the burner. This eliminates smoke and excessive flames which can burn the food.

Abstract: A lower housing defines an elongated heat chamber with side-mounted longitudinally extended linear gas burners which heat the space in the chamber and also edibles mounted on a longitudinal spit which rotates at about the top of the housing. Removable covers enclose the heat chamber, and are removed to permit the spit to be released from its drive mechanism and elevated into a carving mode, with a carving tray underneath, so that meat can be carved on the spit and its accessories, and also on the tray immediately below the spit, keeping all the food warm while it is being carved. The rotisserie includes accessories for mounting fish, poultry and chunk meat, and also has a grill accessory, with the longitudinal dimensioning of all the parts and accessories being such that carving can be done beneath the spit in its carving mode at one portion of the rotisserie, while meat skewered on the other portions of the rotisserie are maintained hot from the heat emanating up from the heat chamber.

Abstract: A versatile conveyor oven effective to product a variety of different cooking conditions therein is described. The oven includes an elongated cabinet defining a cooking chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port with a conveyor extending through the oven from the inlet to the outlet. A plate defines the upper surface of the cooking chamber and the plate has a plurality of arrays of holes each mutually spaced from the adjacent arrays. The lower portion of the cooking chamber is defined by a plurality of discreet nozzles mutually spaced from the inlet to the outlet, each nozzle defining a slot orifice disposed transverse to the path of travel of the conveyor. A heating means is provided and the blower to deliver heated air into a plenum, and from there into an upper air chamber emptying out into the foraminous plate and into a lower chamber which empties out into the discreet nozzles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a portable stove and provides for the use of a horizontal platform on which a vertically oriented cylindrical housing is positioned. A plurality of burners are secured adjacent a lower portion of the housing, the burners being connected through a fuel transmitting conduit to a fuel source outside of the housing. A pair of support plates are secured within the housing above the burners with one of the plates being connected to a bar which rotates the plate, to a limited degree, about its central axis in a horizontal plane, so as to cover notches formed in the second plate by its solid surface. The second plate is also provided with a plurality of equidistantly spaced notches, which, when aligned with notches of the first plate, allow heat to directly escape through the notches to an upper portion of the housing. The stove can be used for boiling, frying and/or grilling, when desired.

Abstract: An oven having at least one and preferably upper and lower burner radiants protected from food splatterings and drippings by transparent tiles coextensive with and separating the burner radiants from the oven chamber, the transparent tiles being of heat resistant material and spaced from the plane of the burner radiants to define a combustion plenum separate from the over chamber, all of which is vented through a flue, the food or the like being spaced within the over chamber on a rack for over and under, or surrounding, subjection to radiant heat in the infra-red range.

Abstract: A rotisserie accessory is provided for use with a cooking appliance having an airflow grill. Locking apparatus prevents rotational operation of a spit portion when the rotisserie accessory is improperly positioned on the cooking appliance.

Abstract: A cooking oven which comprises a pair of opposing end walls, a pair of opposing side walls, the side walls disposed inside of the end walls and defining, together with the end walls, a cooking chamber, a supporting frame adapted to support the end walls and the side walls an, opposing slider member mounted for movement on the supporting frame, the side walls being operatively mounted on the slider member, and a moving member the slider member containing the side walls mounted thereon towards or away from each other, whereby the size of the cooking chamber can be varied depending on the size of the food to be cooked.

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 doors which provide access to the oven chamber. In addition, the oven has a rotisserie for supporting foods in the upper portion of the oven chamber opposite one of the doors, and this rotisserie is turned by a motor in the equipment compartment. A cylindrical firebox in which wood is burned is located in the lower portion of the oven chamber opposite another of the doors 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 front and back walls, so that heated air and smoke circulate freely between the region of the firebox and the region of the rotisserie.

Abstract: There is provided a new and useful broiler oven comprising an elongated cooking compartment, first and second rotisserie drive drums, and a dual drive unit, the cooking compartment defined by bottom and rear walls, a front wall including a door, and first and second end walls each including a large circular opening therethrough, and including at least one heating unit in an upper part of the compartment, the compartment substantially unobstructed below the heating unit; the first and second rotisserie drive drums each having a front face of diameter just less than the circular openings and being mounted for rotation on respective first and second coaxial shafts in respective ones of the circular openings, each drum having a series of spit sockets extending into and mounted for rotation in the front face thereof, the sockets being equispaced around a circular axis on the drums, and individual ones of the sockets in the first drum being axially aligned with corresponding ones in the second drum, the sockets in

Abstract: A free-standing combination rotisserie and shish kebab accessory is provided which includes a three-walled box having a pair of wire frame members such that the two end walls fold flat for storage when the side wall is removed. A motor driven spit can be adpated for use as either a rotisserie or a shish kebab dependent on the use of meat supporting holders or skewer supporting wire wheels.

Abstract: A barbecue grill comprising a fire bowl, legs for supporting the fire bowl, a cooking grill above the fire bowl rotatable about a generally vertical axis, and a rod which is selectively mountable in a generally horizontal position above the cooking grill for use as a spit and in a generally vertical position for use in rotating the cooking grill. A single motor is used to turn the rod, the motor being selectively mountable in two different locations on the barbecue grill depending on whether the rod is being used as a spit or to rotate the cooking grill.

Abstract: An outdoor cooking grill having a bottom grate supported in an iron framework with a food grill of parallel heat conductive bars capable of being raised and lowered relative to the grate. The apparatus includes a curved heat reflective back plate providing insulative characteristics to protect the back closure. Rotisserie supports are provided on a horizontal lift support frame which can serve selectively as a grill support and a rotisserie support. Specific lock devices are provided for rotisserie rods to position the rods in any of a plurality of positions. A composite lift bracket serves also as a rotisserie support.

Abstract: A barbecue in which there is a deep box with means in the base to hold burning coals and means to effect continuous turning of a food holding means arranged so that food is held in pieces and is balanced in symmetrical manner about the pivot axis and the food is carried deep within the box for part of the rotational path so as to provide jointly for basting and for secondary heating by radiation from the sides of the box.

Abstract: A cooking appliance including both a resistive heating element and a high-frequency wave source such as a microwave generator in which a metal skewer is easily insertable through a front opening in a heating chamber and in which changes in dimensions in supporting members for the skewer are absorbed totally. A ceramic coupling member extends between a polygonally-shaped rotary shaft end and the metal skewer with a coupling hole in the coupling member being detachably insertable over the polygonally-shaped rotary shaft end. The skewer extends into a through-hole in the coupling member which has a shape similar to that of the skewer. A spring is provided to urge the coupling member outwardly into engagement with the rotary shaft end.

Abstract: A barbecue grill using a longitudinally extended cage of metal strips for retaining combustible material during combustion and connected to supports for carrying rotatable spits at a plurality of positions around the periphery of the cage.

Abstract: An oven that is particularly suited for preparing barbecued foods with minimal consumption of wood includes a housing that encloses an oven chamber and an apertured firebox that extends into the oven chamber from one of the housing walls. The firebox is closed by a door that is located at the exterior of the housing, and through this door firewood may be placed into the firebox. That wall of the housing which is located opposite the firebox door supports a conversion-type gas burner having a blast tube that is directed into the firebox to provide a gas flame that serves not only to ignite the wood in the firebox, but also to provide supplementary heat, if necessary. The firebox, although being in the oven chamber is shielded from the portion of the chamber in which the food is cooked by a partition wall, and that wall together with one of the housing end walls supports a rotisserie that carries the food as it is cooked.