Abstract: A combination grill and deep fryer is provided having a plurality of horizontal, parallel tubes with an intake manifold at one end and an exhaust manifold at an opposite end. Combustion gases are delivered to the tubes via the intake manifold and drawn through the tubes by an exhaust fan. Food may be grilled on the heated tubes or the tubes may be submersed in a pan containing a liquid cooking medium such as water or cooking oil.

Abstract: An auxiliary igniter shield for a gas grill having an igniter element for lighting the main burner, a grate for supporting heat resistant lava rocks or the like and a cooking grill in an enclosure. The igniter shield is a plate, slightly longer and wider than the igniter element above which it is hung upon suitable support means from the grate. The plate is preferably arcuate in cross section and hung from the grate at such distance to minimize cold spots on the cooking grill.

Abstract: A system, including apparatus and methods, which facilitates the use of dutch ovens, usually combined with a charcoal heating source, in outdoor cooking. The first apparatus is a safe, independent, time-efficient device which quickly preheats charcoal briquettes contained in a portable hopper, accomplishing the same by means of a self-contained, transportable, propane-fueled burner. A second apparatus is a sturdy, portable cooking stand, which, in the "as used" position, provides a safe, elevated site whereupon the charcoal heating source and a plurality of dutch ovens can be conveniently placed for cooking purposes, and which, in the "as transported" position, is disassembled and may be carried facilely to more desired locations. The third apparatus is a T-handled dutch oven and dutch oven lid lifting device whereby said ovens and/or lids may be conveniently and safely removed from and replaced on the heating source.

Abstract: A gas heating cooker to be used as a grill or an oven, wherein the blow-off air current of the blowing apparatus blows along the flames of the lower burner to get the hot current to reach far, so that the heating chamber becomes superwide enough to allow a lot of cooking, with the result that the heating operation may be effected with uniform heat distribution in the full face of the heating chamber, and a superior cooking property from even cooking is provided.

Abstract: A barbecue grill is set forth to enhance ease of use, cleaning, and optional use of pressurized fuel or charcoal briquettes. The grill utilizes a plurality of removable burners operably associated with fuel conduits of a propane-type storage tank. Underlying the burners is a slidably mounted drip tray that may be further utilized as a support for charcoal briquettes upon removal of the burner units, which are also slidably mounted within the framework of the barbecue grill. Additionally, a wind panel utilizing hingedly mounted side panels surrounds the central cooking grid and a series of circular burners. Further, the organization includes a telescopingly mounted lower leg overlying a fixed upper leg with a storage shelf rigidly mounted to the lower legs for compact storage of the organization.

Abstract: A broiler having a cabinet and the usual grill for holding chicken or the like being broiled, several spaced-apart gas burners positioned below the grill in the cabinet and a section of angle iron, serving as a radiant, mounted over each of the burners. A heat sensor is positioned just under the grill and connected with a thermostat which has an attached regulator knob calibrated to permit different temperature settings for the cooking zone at the grill. The burners are fed fuel through a gas manifold provided with an aspirator to adjust the fuel-air mixture for optimal combustibility of the fuel. Each of the burners is provided with a pilot orifice element, which, in turn, is connected with a common aspirator to insure an optimal mix or fuel and air for pilot light purposes. When the broiler is in operation, the regulator knob is adjustable to a predetermined setting for a desired temperature level at the grill.

Abstract: A cellular base member is disclosed for use, in particular, with a barbeque grill. The preferred base member is made of ceramic and provided in a honeycomb shape. When fixedly disposed between the heat source and the cooking surface of a barbeque grill, the disclosed cellular base member retains and evenly radiates heat to the cooking surface. Furthermore, should any fatty food substance or the like fall from the cooking surface, the cellular base member vaporizes such food substance before it reaches the heat source, thereby eliminating the problem of flame flare-up.

Abstract: The lid of a barbecue grill is supported in selected open angles by a positioner arm having notches with acutely angled bumper walls for being struck by the lid when it is raised to push away the arm. The arm has a lower end that bears directly on the barbecue base or is retained by a pivoted clip, with bearing contact through the clip to avoid weighting the pivot point.

Abstract: A portable cooking unit susceptible for use with either an interchangeable griddle surface or a grill surface. The cooking unit is provided with a serving/eating portion substantially surrounding the unit, at least a portion of which may be hingedly connected to permit easy storage. A removable grill unit is provided with a hinged top for conventionally cooking when the griddle is removed. Adjustable wheels are provided for easy storage or movement of the unit.

Abstract: A hollow, upright cabinet supports therein a cooking grid and a plurality of upwardly facing gas burners which emit infrared head toward the cooking grid. A shield assembly having angled baffles is removeably mounted over the burners to shield the meat directly above the burners on the grid from the infrared rays and protects the burners from the drippings of the meat. The spaced baffles however permit the infrared radiation to pass upwardly, at an angle to impinge on meat at the rear of the grid.

Abstract: A side cooker apparatus for a gas-fired grill which is detachably secured at one side of the grill by a pair of substantially parallel, spaced apart bars which are attached to the framework of the side cooker apparatus and extend into a pair of correspondingly spaced apart channels which form part of a framework for the gas-fired grill. A safety barrier may be provided for retaining cooking utensils on the side cooker.

Abstract: A barbeque grill has an upwardly open housing and a food support grill positioned adjacent the opening. A gas burner includes a tubular heating element positioned within the housing and an external portion positioned on the outside of the housing. The burner external portion is in communication at one end with an end of the heating element and at its other end with a fuel source and the heating element has a number of holes formed along its length within the housing. The fuel is ignited within the external portion of the burner where it burns in torch-like fashion producing heat and pressure that moves into the heating element causing the heating element to become red hot with excess heat escaping through the holes in the heating element into the housing. A disposable cooking pan has a corrugated bottom with a plurality of openings formed therein and is adapted to be supported on the support grill for cooking food.

Abstract: The barbecue pit comprises a shell of masonry including a bottom wall, side walls, a back wall and a partial front wall. The shell further includes two inner wall sections which divide the space within the shell into identical first, second and third compartments extending front to back within the shell. The first compartment includes a cooking chamber having a plurality of horizontal grates removably supported therein and also includes a topless heat chamber having heat source means located beneath said cooking chamber for supplying heat and smoke to the cooking chamber. The second compartment includes a sauce applying chamber having a container of sauce therein and means for applying the sauce to cooked meat placed in the chamber.

Abstract: A multipurpose smokeless roaster comprising: a roasting unit (2), a ceiling (1) having an opened portion (7), a cylindrical outer box (9) having an exhausting unit (3) at the lower end thereof and opened at the upper end thereof, a cylindrical inner box (11) provided inside the outer box (9) and having a burner (23) inside thereof and being opened at the upper end thereof, and a suction passage (X) defined between the outer box (9) and the inner box (11) at a predetermined width for sucking a smoke generated during roasting and cooking. The inner box has an annular surface (15) on which a metal grill or a pot stand (18) are selectively mounted. A movable draft pipe (4) is slidably provided at the exhausting unit (3) of the outer box (9) and a connector box (5) is provided under the movable draft pipe (4) for connecting said movable draft pipe (4) and a duct unit (6) for defining an exhaust gas passage.

Abstract: The present invention provides an expansion sleeve for a gas barbecue of the type comprising a grill supporting base and a cover removably supportable thereon, the cover having lower edges seatably engaging upper edges of the base when supported thereon and in closed position. The sleeve has vertical walls defining a cross-sectional horizontal shape which conforms to the shape of these edges of the base and cover of the barbecue. The walls have spaced parallel upper and lower edges, the lower edges being provided with means to releasably seat the sleeve on the upper edges of the base and the upper edges arranged to seatably receive the cover. The sleeve, when in position on the base of the barbecue with the barbecue cover is seatably received on the upper edges of the sleeve provides an expanded cooking chamber for the barbecue.

Abstract: A gas collector electrode assembly that can be easily assembled and/or disassembled is disclosed. The bottom wall of the gas collector includes two apertures connected by an elongated slot. The first aperture is sized to receive the end of the spark electrode assembly and the second aperture is sized to grippingly engage a circumferential groove on the spark electrode assembly adjacent its end. A tab portion is provided in the bottom wall of the gas collector adjacent the second aperture therein. By inserting the end of the spark electrode assembly into the first aperture and then by depressing the tab portion while laterally moving the spark electrode assembly into the second aperture, the tab portion can then spring back to its original position and grippingly engage the spark electrode assembly firmly attaching same to the gas collector.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooking food has two plates which can be heated and of which one plates is movable relative to the other to apply heat and pressure to an initial food material for cooking the same, wherein a drive for moving the one plate is formed as a magnetic drive located laterally outside the contours of the plates.

Abstract: A top burner for a gas cooking range includes a burner vent having a radially upwardly sloping wall surrounding the burner head. An annular ring projects upwardly from an inner radial extremity of the wall to direct combustion products from the burner head into immediate scrubbing contact with the bottom of a cooking utensil. The wall terminates at an outer radial extremity adapted to be located in sufficiently close proximity with the bottom of the cooking utensil to restrict radially outward flow of combustion products. Capture ports adjacent the outer radial extremity of the wall exhaust combustion products through a vent pipe to the atmosphere at a positive pressure. A range oven/broiler may also be connected to the vent pipe to provide a fully vented range.

Abstract: A grill comprises a heating chamber (2) for broiling food (18). The heating chamber has located on the sides thereof a respective space (5) which accommodates a heat source (6), such as charcoal. The heat source (6) delivers radiant heat uniformly to the food (18), and the formation of carcinogenic substances as a result of pyrolysis is avoided by constructing the bottom part of the heating chamber in a manner to cool fat which drips down from the broiled food. To this end the bottom part of the heating chamber may be provided with a withdrawable vessel (8) filled with a liquid (9). The heat-source accommodating space (5) is delimited on the heating-chamber side by a net or lattice structure (4) and has a bottom surface (14) which slopes obliquely downwards and inwards towards the liquid-filled vessel (8). Pre-heated combustion air is delivered to the space (5) through a channel (16) location beneath the space. The central part of the grill may have a rectangular or circular cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus ventilation system which evacuates smoke and vapors to allow indoor cooking. Air is evacuated through ventilation channels which surround all but one side of the cooking surface. A layer of air is directed from the fourth side across the cooking surface to push the smoke and vapor into the ventilation channels. A portion of the evacuated air is recycled back across the cooking surface to enhance the flavor of the food being cooked.

Abstract: A table (10) comprises a table top (11) having a centralized aperture into which a charcoal grill barbeque (12) is inset. Eating stations (13) are provided around the barbeque (12) on the table top (11) and a frame arrangement (21) fitted to barbeque (12) projects above the level of the table top (11) to prevent splashing thereof during use of the barbeque (12).

Abstract: A portable barbecue grill includes a bowl (12) and a cover (14) having a gripping handle (44) with a carrying handle (50) pivoted on the bowl to lock the cover to the bowl. A latch member (60) cooperates with the carrying handle to define a cradle for the cover. The gripping handle includes two pieces that can be snap-fitted together.

Abstract: A gas fired cooking grill having a twin burner element initially adapted for dual gas supply lines is disclosed as including an adaptor manifold for converting the twin burner element to a single burner element for a single gas supply line source. The adaptor manifold includes an enclosed chamber which is mounted in sealed engagement to the burner element and has an adjustable mounting for connection to a single gas supply line source.

Abstract: An oven for cooking food products comprising a substantially closed enclosure except for an inlet and an outlet in the end walls of the oven. A heater means extends through the top wall of the enclosure into the cooking chamber for producing a gaseous cooking medium and suction fan means are provided on the enclosure top wall on either side of the heater means and in relatively closely spaced relation to the outlet of the heater means, and a source of moisture is disposed between the heater means outlet and the suction side of each of the fans for mixing moisture with the heated medium from the heater means. A conveyor is adapted to receive food products and move the products through the oven from the inlet to the outlet thereof, and duct fingers are provided both above and below the conveyor for directing and impinging the heated gaseous cooking medium onto the food products being moved by the conveyor through the oven.

Abstract: A gas burner includes a burner tube that has a gas supply tube extending into one end and an air intake orifice adjacent thereto. A perforated shield is clamped onto the tubes to enclose the air intake orifice.

Abstract: An adjustable gas tube assembly is disclosed for use with gas consumption means (including gas barbecue grills) and includes a gas delivery tube having a tubular air regulator member mounted therein at one end. The tubular air regulator member includes at least one elongated lateral opening which is selectively exposed, as desired, as the tubular air regulator member is inserted or withdrawn from the gas delivery tube. The tubular air regulator member is preferably provided with a restricted throat for gripping and retaining a gas supply tube section connected to a gas supply source. The tubular air regulator member is also preferably used with a flexible and expandable gas delivery tube.

Abstract: A table-mounted barbecue cooker is provided which has a grill, gas burner or coals, grease pan, smoke collection system and greaase collection system including a grease filter. The grill, burner or coal box, and grease pan are all easily removed for cleaning through the top of the barbecue cooker and the filter from underneath. The burner is so located as to prevent flames from reaching grease collection areas. Coals or charcoals may be used in place of a gas burner depending on the local fuel supply and for flavoring and appearance.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus ventilation system which evacuates smoke and vapors to allow indoor cooking. Air is evacuated through ventilation channels which surround all but one side of the cooking surface. A layer of air is directed from the fourth side across the cooking surface to push the smoke and vapor into the ventilation channels.

Abstract: A barbecue grill assembly is disclosed having a dual mode of operation for cooking with charcoal briquettes or with a burner element. The firebox of the grill includes a burner element near the floor thereof and an aperture in one of the sidewalls for receiving a tray member. The tray member has channels for receiving charcoal to be ignited by the gas burner and which, in its 180.degree. inverted position, acts as a shield for the burner. Positive locking is accomplished with spring-clips and by bimetallic lever arms which lock the tray in the tracks when heated.

Abstract: An insect guard is provided for guarding against the entrance of insects into the venturi tubes of gas grills which may result in clogging of the fuel flow to the burners of a gas grill. The insect guard includes using a plurality of small openings to define the primary air opening in the venturi tube, and also providing for a close tolerance fit at the connection between the venturi tube and the outlet orifice of the valve such that insects are substantially prevented from entrance into the venturi tube.

Abstract: An electric cooking unit, a gas-fired cooking unit, and a burner assembly usable with the gas-fired unit for rapidly or slowly grilling large or small quantities of food in a controlled manner. The cooking unit includes side walls defining a heating enclosure, a plurality of food holding members supported by top surfaces of the side walls for positioning food within the heating enclosure, a grate assembly mounted within the heating enclosure for supporting a bed of refractory coals below the food holding members, and gas-fired or electric heating elements for heating the grate assembly and heating the bed of refractory coals to incandescent temperatures. When the cooking unit is gas-fired, the unit includes a plurality of burner assemblies which can be individually controlled, each assembly having a flame guard assembly releasably mounted on a tubular member having a plurality of apertures for distributing a cooking gas within the heating enclosure.

Abstract: An improved gas-fired cooking unit includes an easily adjustable and removable wind shield positionable next to a pair of relatively movable burners. A fixed burner is positioned beneath a cooking pan to which the wind shield is attachable, and a second auxiliary burner is either rotatably or fixedly attached to the cooking unit and is designed to support a separate cooking pan.

Abstract: A cooking grill assembly of high energy efficiency is disclosed. A gas burner arm heat source is oscillated through an arc of a variable amount in order to limit the heat source cooperation with the cooking grill to that area of the grill on which the food is to be cooked. A means to limit the heat source to this given area of the grill is provided and includes a motor, drive linkage, and variable stop means so that the arc of the burner tube oscillation is limited to the selected area. The foregoing abstract is merely a resume of one general application, is not a complete discussion of all principles of operation or applications, and is not to be construed as a limitation on the scope of the claimed subject matter.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of and apparatus or device for flame switching in order to associate a flame and the energy of the flame with different and distinct energy using systems. The flame switchable gas burning device, when adapted to be mounted or attached within the oven cavity of a gas stove, provides an improved gas stove which can, within the one oven cavity, operate in the broil, bake and self-clean mode without the need for multiple burners or multiple oven cavities and without the need for manually operated baffles or dampers.

Abstract: A smokeless roaster comprises a ceiling or upper support wall extending horizontally and having an opened upper end; a roasting unit comprising an outer box having an opened upper end and mounted on the ceiling at the end edges thereof, an inner box having an opened upper end and supported by the outer box at the end edges thereof, and an exhausting unit provided at the lower part of the roasting unit tapering downwardly, the inner box having a metal grill at the upper portion thereof and a burner at the connected to the exhausting unit through a fixed pipe lower portion thereof; a movable draft pipe and having diameter being substantially same as maximum diameter of the exhausting unit; a connector box provided at the lower part of the movable draft pipe and connected with the movable draft pipe and having a static pressure equalizer for equalizing a suction force applied to the roasting unit; and a duct unit provided at the side of the connector box.

Abstract: A barbecue apparatus is disclosed herein having its components coaxially disposed on a flanged base supported from a cantilevered arm anchored to a support tube or the like. The components include a circular walled bowl carried on the base with vent apertures in the bottom and a grease catch screen that is carried by an apertured liner supporting a gas burner. The reinforced mid-section of the grease screen is detachably coupled to the burner and a grill is removably carried about the peripheral edge marginal region of the liner. A vented lid includes a retention member engaged with the edge of the bowl for wind shielding purposes when not used as a cover for the bowl. A detachable coupler joins the burner to a gas supply cantilevered outwardly from the base which includes controls for gas distribution to the burner.

Abstract: A frying oven is provided for cooking primarily meats under induced humidity conditions in a manner minimizing flame charring of the food. The frying oven includes an open-top body which supports an inclined grill rack spaced over a plurality of gas burners. The grill rack acts to collect grease falling from the food and thus prevent grease contact with the burners during the cooking process. The grill rack also channels the grease to a collection trough which, in turn, channels the grease to an exteriorly located grease collection pan. When cooking, a cover is placed over the body to define a substantially enclosed cooking chamber, and steam is introduced into the chamber to provide a humid cooking environment.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes an elongated heat source, which may be a gas burner tube. The elongated heat source is mounted for movement in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the heat source, and a driving arrangement is provided for reciprocating the heat source in the horizontal plane.

Abstract: Equipment for the controlled and uniform cooking of foods of lesser thickness so that cooking occurs uniformly on the whole upper surface of the food and uniformly on the whole lower surface of the food comprising a base having a hole; a lower burner disposed below the hole; a heat conducting plate disposed over the hole, a lower surface of food resting on the plate being uniformly cooked by the thermal conduction from the lower burner through the plate; a chamber having an open bottom spaced from the plate; an upper burner disposed in the chamber; a fume deflector device mounted to the chamber and mounted between the upper burner and the heat conducting plate for deflecting and evenly distributing hot fumes generated by the upper burner so that a uniform column of hot fumes descends vertically toward the heat conducting plate and strike perpendicularly over an upper surface of food resting on the plate; and a deflector ring encircling and concentric with the chamber and having a lower end in contact with at

Abstract: A barbecue grill including a housing having a bottom surface, a heat source adjacent the bottom surface, a heat deflector positioned above the heat source for uniform heat distribution, a grease collection and drainage system, a food supporting grate and a removable hood. Heat is evenly distributed throughout the housing by the heat deflector, and grease from food on the food supporting grate is efficiently collected and disposed of by the grease collection and drainage system. The grease collection and drainage system is adapted to easily convert the barbecue grill to use as both a smoker and a steamer.

Abstract: An adjustable gas intake assembly for a barbecue grill which can be utilized with various types of gas barbecue grill burners. A venturi tube and a supply tube are connected by a flexible section which will provide horizontal or vertical adjustment of the supply tube. In one embodiment the supply tube has a flexible section which will afford axial compression and expansion for vertical adjustment of the supply tube. In another embodiment the supply tube has a flexible section and a telescoping section is provided in the venturi portion or the supply tube portion. This telescoping section is represented by at least one separate tubular member communicating with the flexible section.

Abstract: An internal air regulator in a venturi tube assembly for use with a burner in a gas barbecue grill. The venturi tube assembly includes two telescoping tubes both with lateral openings. The tube which telescopes into the other has an internal air shutter for orientation with the lateral openings. This arrangement offers for added adjustment of the venturi assembly when it is placed between a control housing with a nozzle and a burner yet allows for air regulation. In a preferred embodiment, an attachment member extends from the tube with the air shutter to secure the venturi tube assembly to a gas nozzle.

Abstract: Grease collector grates 48 and 49 are positioned within the housing 11, beneath the location of the food support grill 19, over the burner 26. The L-shaped grease collector bars 50 of the collector grates 48 and 49 prevent grease from falling downwardly to the burner 26, but the space between the collector bars permit the heat to move freely upwardly between the collector bars.

Abstract: A device for supporting the hinged cover of a barbecue brazier partially open in any one of a plurality of selected positions comprises an elongated planar support member having a plurality of upwardly orientated cover hooks along its length for selectively engaging the rim of the partially opened cover, and a downwardly facing mounting member or hook adjacent one of its ends for mounting the support member vertically on the rim of the brazier. A handle member is permanently or removably attached to the support member for handling the support member when it has become hot through use. The handle member in one embodiment is secured to the support member by means of a screw threaded projection on the handle member which engages a screw threaded bore in the support member.

Abstract: An insect guard is provided for guarding against the entrance of insects into the venturi tubes of gas grills which may result in clogging of the fuel flow of the burners of a gas grill. The insect guard includes using a plurality of small openings to define the primary air opening in the venturi tube, and also providing for a close tolerance fit at the connection between the venturi tube and the outlet orifice of the valve such that insects are substantially prevented from entrance into the venturi tube.

Abstract: This invention provides a portable barbeque having a base and a lid hinged to one another. A pair of allochiral feet are hinged to the bottom of the base and are arranged to lock to the base when deployed to support the base so that there is little likelihood of upsetting the structure. After use, the lid is closed and the feed can be dislodged and folded over the lid to hold the lid closed against the base and to store the feet. This invention also provides a base and a lid and a heat source contained in the base with grill support means inside the base. A shelf is supported in the base and has dividers between sections of the shelf to restrain movement of inert cinders placed on the shelf. A grill also supported by the base is spaced from the shelf such that the cinders are retained by the grill on the shelf should the housing be tilted or turned upside-down.

Abstract: A grill, such as an outdoor charcoal or gas grill includes a conventional bottom portion having a heat generating source and a rack for supporting a food product above the heat generator. The grill includes a cover which serves to enclose an air space above the rack to permit roasting or baking of food products supported on the rack. The cover also includes an opening and a transparent panel is provided for the opening, preferably by an elongate hinge. The hinge is located at the bottom of the panel and the cover also includes an opening mechanism, whereby the upper portion of the panel may be displaced from the cover to create an opening in the vicinity of the top of the cover. The opening of the panel permits grilling or broiling of the food product, and the user of the grill, by observation of the cooking process occurring in the grill through the transparent panel can open and close the panel by desired amounts and at appropriate times to control cooking operations.

Abstract: A sear bar for evaporating greases in an outdoor gas grill consists of an inverted V-shaped member having a pair of flat inclined walls defining an included angle of less than 90.degree. so that grease will evaporate while flowing across the heated inclined walls.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooking foods which is a combination of an outdoor grill and an optional smoker attachment. The grill itself is of a type having a container with an open top, a closed bottom, front and rear sidewalls for holding heat-retaining lava rock. A hinged lid which is removable is attached to the grill for retaining heat within the container. A removable grate is selectively disposed inside of the container above the lava rock when the device is to be used as a grill for holding foods directly up above the lava rock and such grate is removable when the device is to be used for smoking foods. When the apparatus is to be used as a smoker, a metal cabinet having a rear wall, a pair of sidewalls connected to the rear wall, a removable front wall and a top wall is placed upon the container and has an open bottom so that the heat from the lava rock will be trapped within such metal cabinet.

Abstract: An improved table top grill which includes a modular fire grate configuration for holding heat retention material in a predetermined area, the fire grate configuration being easily removeable from the grill. Two sets of fire grate modules are provided along with a heating grate so that a dual-purpose grill is obtained, wherein both a grilling operation and a pot or pan cooking operation can be conducted simultaneously.