Abstract: A barbecue grill for outdoor cooking has vertical spaced heating panels between which foodstuffs can be supported for cooking. One of the panels is slidable towards and away from the other panel to control the amount of heat supplied to the cooking area between the panels, and is pivotable outwards away from the cooking area about a vertical pivot axis at one side edge for easier access to the cooking area.

Abstract: A continuous cooking device includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet defined therein and an intermediate conveyor for conveying food products to be cooked from the inlet to the outlet through a cooking chamber including heating apparatus. The heating apparatus may include a pair of heating elements, one of the heating elements mounted on a door pivotal towards and away from the housing to open the cooking chamber for user access. Electrical connection to the door mounted cooking element may be provided by a hollow shaft that secures the door to the housing and provides a passageway for an electrical conductor. The conveyor is advantageously a belt conveyor made up of a plurality of removeably interconnected links separatable to facilitate cleaning. A second cooking element may be located on the opposite side of the conveyor from the door mounted cooking element, arranged in juxtaposition with the conveyor to define a food product passageway between the second cooking element and the conveyor.

Abstract: A toaster has a casing, two or more walls of which define between themselves an upright food-receiving space, and a base defining with the lower edges of these walls a clearance open to the food-receiving space. A separate food carrier is insertable into the clearance so that food-holding portions of the carrier project from the clearance into the space. Heating elements toast or warm the food in the space. Guides are provided to facilitate insertion and withdrawal of the carrier from the clearance.

Abstract: A compact broiler for cooking slabs of meat includes generally vertical infrared and preferably gas fired heating elements spaced apart within a housing to define a cooking zone between them. A mouth through the upper surface of the housing provides access to the cooking zone. A special rack suspends a slab of meat within the cooking zone when in one position and when turned 180.degree. to another position suspends the meat in a warming zone above the mouth. The rack retaining mechanism cooperates with the rack to both center the meat within the cooking zone and retain the rack in place. The housing also defines a dripping collecting zone below the heating zone into which a gutter is positioned for capturing drippings from the meat. A liner including a heat shield positioned above the gutter and generally within the dripping collecting zone deflects heat from the heating members away from the gutter to prevent burning of drippings therein.

Abstract: A hamburger bun storage device has a supporting frame on which a bun-toasting and heating element is disposed. The heating element is preferably a planar member superposed above a parallel planar conveyor mounted on the frame to advance in a predetermined direction. The heating element is movable up and down; i.e. toward and away from the associated conveyor. A drawer enclosure is disposed on the heating element on the side thereof opposite the conveyor and is open only in a direction transverse to the predetermined direction and at the side of the frame. A drawer is slidable in the drawer enclosure between an open position and a closed position in which a drawer end plate is in abutment with the frame.

Abstract: A patty broiler has a frame on which an openwork patty conveyor is arranged around pulleys to have an upper run and a lower run. Heaters are arranged on the frame above and below the upper run, and multiple reflectors are arranged on the frame above and below the conveyor. A doctor assists in dislodging patties from the far end of the upper run of the conveyor to fall onto a patty slide on the frame leading the patties by gravity toward the feed end of the frame. A bun conveyor is arranged on the frame beneath the patty conveyor. A bun heater transmits heat to buns on that conveyor and to the patty slide. The warmed bun halves are returned toward the feed end of the machine by a bun slide. An enclosing and vented jacket assists in retaining and diverting the heat and fumes and protects the machinery.

Abstract: A portable barbecue unit the housing of which is a case fitted with a hinged cover inside of which are a pair of containers which serve as charcoal burner units, each fitted with one side formed as a grate. The burner units may be mounted, with the cover opened, so that the grates of the two burner units face each other in spaced vertical array. A hinged grill may be fixed to a handle that is rotatably mounted in attachable brackets to the housing between the erected burner units. Alternately the burner units may be mounted side by side in the container with the grates forming a continuous surface on which the grill may be rested. Each burner unit is shaped as a box with one side hinged to the burner unit for replacement of charcoal.

Abstract: A device for heating a breast prosthesis which comprises a base on which a liquid filled flexible bag is placed for supporting a breast prothesis. A hinged cover for the base that carries another liquid filled flexible bag on its in surface so that a closing of the cover will cause the under surface of the bag to contact with and conform to the irregular contour of the upper surface of the breast prosthesis. An electric heating element is submerged in the liquid in each bag and a switch and thermostat for the heating elements controls the degreee of heat applied to the breast prothesis.

Abstract: In a grilling apparatus there are provided elongated fuel supports receiving particulate coal fuel, and which are loosely suspended at each end on shoulders provided in the housing of the apparatus.

Abstract: An automatic toaster for continuously toasting bread slices one at a time, from the bottom of a generally vertical stack of bread slices. The bread toaster includes a housing having a discharge opening at one end and a hopper at the other end for receiving a vertical stack of bread slices. A conveyor feeds the bread slices one at a time between a pair of heating elements whereafter the bread is ejected through the discharge opening in the housing. The pair of heating elements are mounted above and below the conveyor and are movable toward and away from the conveyor so the amount of toasting on each bread slice can be determined according to the preference of the user. An automatic counter is connected to the conveyor for counting the number of slices being toasted and for turning off the toaster after a predetermined number of slices of toast have been made.