With Drip Or Crumb Receiving Means Patents (Class 99/400)
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Patent number: 12193606Abstract: A cooking accessory insert for a cooking grill includes a heat distribution duct that, installed, extends from a burner proximate to the bottom of the grill's fire box generally to a cooking level near the top of the fire box. The heat distribution duct is defined by a plurality of side walls extending from a top end of the heat distribution duct to a bottom end, tapering inward, or narrowing, from top to bottom. A top surface substantially covers the top end of the heat distribution duct, while the bottom is open. A cover is provided to cover the top surface, defining a baking chamber between the cover and the top surface. A cooking surface element such as a pizza stone is removably disposed on the top surface, spaced apart from the top surface by a plurality of spacers.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: GMG Products, LLCInventor: David Baker
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Patent number: 11877694Abstract: A cooking accessory insert for a cooking grill includes a heat distribution duct that, installed, extends from a burner proximate to the bottom of the grill's fire box generally to a cooking level near the top of the fire box. The heat distribution duct is defined by a plurality of side walls extending from a top end of the heat distribution duct to a bottom end, tapering inward, or narrowing, from top to bottom. A top surface substantially covers the top end of the heat distribution duct, while the bottom is open. A cover is provided to cover the top surface, defining a baking chamber between the cover and the top surface. A cooking surface element such as a pizza stone is removably disposed on the top surface, spaced apart from the top surface by a plurality of spacers.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: GMG Products, LLCInventor: David Baker
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Patent number: 11006780Abstract: A food grilling device includes a lower portion for holding food, an upper portion for trapping food between the upper and lower portions, and a sliding, adjustment mechanism. The upper portion is positioned over the lower portion and is movable relative to the lower portion. The sliding, adjustment mechanism is coupled between the lower portion and the upper portion and permits the upper portion to move forward, rearwardly, upwardly, and downwardly relative to the lower portion. The food grilling device has an open position and a closed position. In the open position, food is inserted between the lower and upper portions. In the closed position, food is trapped in the food grilling device by pressure or friction exerted on the food by the upper portion. Movement of the upper portion relative to the lower portion in a forward and rearward direction turns the food positioned between the upper and lower portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: BRIGHT INNOVATIONS LLCInventor: David M. Lee
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Patent number: 10016094Abstract: A food grilling rack provides a frame defined by a plurality of connected side walls forming a closed geometric shape. The frame includes a lower corrugated sheet that provides multiple troughs, each trough having a lowest portion. The lower sheet is attached to at least some of the side walls. An upper sheet of material is supported (e.g., removably) above the sheet of corrugated material. There are a plurality of openings in the upper sheet of material, each opening being vertically aligned with a lowest portion of a trough. In one embodiment, the frame includes a pair of flanged members attached to a lower corrugated sheet that provides multiple troughs, each trough having a lowest portion. A sheet with openings slides into the frame aligning the openings with the lowest part of the trough.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Metal Fusion, Inc.Inventors: Norman R. Bourgeois, Barbara Bourgeois, Michael P. Bourgeois
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Patent number: 9974120Abstract: A cooktop includes a burner box, a heat shield pivotably attached to a bottom of the burner box, a lock for locking the heat shield in a transport position, wherein the heat shield is self-pivotable from the transport position to an operational position after unlocking the lock, and when in the operational position the heat shield is pivoted further from the bottom of the burner box than in the transport position.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Manuel Almolda Fandos, Alfonso Lorente Perez, David Ortiz Sainz, Carmelo Pina Gadea
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Patent number: 9820611Abstract: A food grilling rack provides a frame defined by a plurality of connected side walls forming a closed geometric shape. The frame includes a lower corrugated sheet that provides multiple troughs, each trough having a lowest portion. The lower sheet is attached to at least some of the side walls. An upper sheet of material is supported (e.g., removably) above the sheet of corrugated material. There are a plurality of openings in the upper sheet of material, each opening being vertically aligned with a lowest portion of a trough. In one embodiment, the frame includes a pair of flanged members attached to a lower corrugated sheet that provides multiple troughs, each trough having a lowest portion. A sheet with openings slides into the frame aligning the openings with the lowest part of the trough.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Metal Fusion, Inc.Inventors: Norman R. Bourgeois, Barbara Bourgeois, Michael P. Bourgeois
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Patent number: 9003959Abstract: An apparatus for cooking eggs that differentiates the exposure of cooking heat to the yolk and albumin of the uncooked egg by controlling both the geometry of the yolk and the albumin and their relative exposures to cooking heat, which includes a body for holding an egg white component of a egg, the body having a bottom surface and one or more side surfaces extending from the bottom surface, and at least one concave recess within the body, the recess facilitating retention and support of an egg yolk component of the shelled egg and holding the egg yolk in a substantially spherical shape, wherein the body and the recess are arranged such that the egg yolk component is shielded at least partially by one or more additional elements in comparison to the egg white component when the egg is in place within the body.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Inventor: Leonard I. Frenkil, Sr.
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Patent number: 8997635Abstract: A vertical grill (11) for cooking food items is disclosed wherein the vertical grill is comprised of a body (12) containing at least one vertical grilling area disposed between at least two sources of radiant heat energy (24), and wherein the body (12) is adapted to direct fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food into an external receptacle (32) via the external opening (22). It achieves this by including (Evacuation Slides) guides (28) and (30) which are contained within the body (12) of the grill (11) and arranged in various shaped assemblies such that food and fats falling on (Evacuation Slide) guide 28 travels down until it is collected by (Evacuation Slide) guide (30) which delivers the food and fats to the external receptacle (32) where they are not in any danger of catching fire.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert Bair
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Patent number: 8991386Abstract: A firebox for a gas grill with an infrared re-emitter surface at the top, at least one heat shield at the bottom, and sidewalls intermediate between the heat shields and the emitter plate forming a box like structure in which multiple small cross sectional area tubes with gas burner ports on the top or sides are disposed in an array between the heat shield and the emitter plate. The heat shield below the burner tubes has openings disposed below the burner tubes to admit secondary combustion air and provide cooling of the burner tubes preventing pre-ignition.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Char-Broil, LLCInventor: Mallik R. Ahmed
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Patent number: 8915179Abstract: A muffin maker comprises a support device, a main body and a collecting plate. A pedestal of the support device includes a first inserted portion. Two support arms of the support device include a rotary device. The main body is used for baking muffin and is connected to the rotary device. The collecting plate is mounted on the pedestal of the support device and includes a second inserted portion. The second inserted portion is connected with the first inserted portion and the normal line of the collecting plate is perpendicular to the normal line of the pedestal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Tsann Kuen(China) Enterprise Co., LtdInventor: Shuhui Chang
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Patent number: 8893611Abstract: The invention concerns a center arm for holding an upper contact grilling or roasting plate, the center arm having a substantially vertical supporting section and a holding section which is arranged pivotably on the vertical supporting section and to which the upper contact grilling or roasting plate can be attached, which is distinguished in that a device for fixing the holding section relative to the supporting section is associated with the holding section, the fixing device comprising a control element and a latch device, and the control element being capable of being brought into engagement with the latch device for fixing the holding section in different pivot positions relative to the supporting section, and out of engagement for free pivoting of the holding section relative to the supporting section. Furthermore, the invention concerns a contact grilling or roasting device having such a center arm.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: H.H. Scholz KGInventors: Kay Scholz, Otto Langguth, Karsten Anklam
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Patent number: 8863654Abstract: A cooking device has a casing 1, a heating chamber 8 provided in the casing 1, an exhaust tube 18 for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber 8 through an electric component chamber 9 in the casing 1 to front face side, and a dew receiving container 4 that is provided on front face side of the casing 1 and that receives and diffuses the exhaust from the exhaust tube 18 to outside of the casing 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinji Asami, Takashi Utsumi, Shinya Ueda, Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 8794131Abstract: A grill with improved-configuration grease collecting box comprising feet, a pan mounted on the feet and a heating device on the backside of the pan, the feet form an opening to contain the grease collecting box, both sides of the opening have supports, the opening mounted a grease collecting box inside, and the grease collecting box mounted on the supports, said pan has grease outlet orifices on the top of grease collecting box. The grease collecting box of the present invention located below the pan, it does not occupy the additional space and uneasy to be turn overed by incaution, which add the security; Mounting the grease collecting box on the feet does not need any additional fitting device, and the simple configuration is advantageous to be carried; The grease collecting box being hidden in the feet make the appearance of the grill to be more aesthetic.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Tsann Kuen (China) Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qisheng Lai, Youming Yang
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Publication number: 20140165850Abstract: A tabletop grill generally includes a housing, a heating element disposed within the housing, and a grill plate configured to be removably mounted on the housing. The grill plate and the housing are magnetically connectable to retain the grill plate on the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: Jacob D. Smith, Charles A. Nelson, Matthew A.C. Guckenberger
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Patent number: 8752479Abstract: An indoor range-top grill allows a user to substantially duplicate outdoor grilling indoors. In some embodiments, the indoor range-top grill sits on top of a gas or electric burner of a stove and uses heat from the burner to grill and cook food. Typically, the indoor range-top grill comprises a grill enclosure having an opening at a top and a hole at a bottom, a burner shield positioned inside the grill enclosure, and a grate positioned above the burner shield. The hole allows heat and flame from the burner through to heat the burner shield. In some embodiments, the burner shield comprises a heat director integrally coupled to a grease ring. Preferably, the heat director burns grease, which thereby adds true BBQ taste/flavor to the food. The grease ring typically guides food residue away from the hole, trapping the food residue between the grease ring and the grill enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Headwater Holding Company Ltd.Inventors: Jim Sacherman, Chan Yin Ho, Chen Chien Cheng
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Publication number: 20140144331Abstract: A countertop multi-function oven has a baking and a toasting mode. The oven uses a rotating input dial as a function selector. A second rotating input dial is used to allow a user selection of a bake time or a toasting load.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Breville Pty LimitedInventors: Keith James Hensel, Ze Kang Li
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Patent number: 8726791Abstract: A household appliance includes a control panel that is movable between a rest position and an exposed position. A reservoir, which is adapted for holding a fluid, has a filling opening and is positioned behind the control panel in an interior of the household appliance when the reservoir is in an operating position. The control panel is configured to impede access to the reservoir and/or the filling opening when the control panel is in the rest position and the reservoir is in the operating position. The control panel is further configured to allow access to the reservoir and/or the filling opening when the control panel is moved to the exposed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Miele & Cie. KGInventors: Juergen Adamczak, Uwe Berger, Ruediger Hoehn, Franz Thorman, Wolfgang Wieneke
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Patent number: 8720324Abstract: An improved stovetop grilling device includes a grilling surface, a catch tray and a heat conducting element. The grilling surface has a plurality of upward pointing V-shaped first members. The first members are attached at first and second ends to a first supporting frame. Adjacent pairs of their side edges are spaced apart by a first distance. The catch tray has a plurality of downward pointing V-shaped second members. The second members are attached at their first and second ends to a second supporting frame. Adjacent pairs of their side edges are spaced from one another by the first distance. The first supporting frame is located over the second supporting frame such that drippings from the grilling surface fall into the catch tray. The heat conducting element has a plurality of upward pointing planar third members that extend upwardly between the second members and contact undersides of the first members.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Inventor: Stephen Coutts
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Patent number: 8646381Abstract: An oven rack and drip pan assembly is provided in an appliance, such as an oven. The oven rack includes a support platform and a pair of drip pan rails extending downwardly from opposing sides of the support platform. The drip pan includes opposing side portions configured to be slidably received within the drip pan rails and a plurality of vented portions provided through a surface of the drip pan. The vented portions are configured to allow heated air to pass therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventor: Maureen Donoho
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Patent number: 8516950Abstract: The invention concerns a center arm for holding an upper grilling or roasting plate, the center arm having a substantially vertical supporting section and a holding section which is arranged pivotably on the vertical supporting section and on which is arranged the upper grilling or roasting plate, which is distinguished in that the pivot shaft of the holding section is formed and arranged approximately at the point of intersection S of the center axes M1 and M2 of the holding section on the one hand and the supporting section on the other hand. Furthermore the invention concerns a contact grilling or roasting device having such a center arm.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: H.H. Scholz KGInventors: Kay Scholz, Otto Langguth, Karsten Anklam
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Patent number: 8444010Abstract: A food dispensing device having a frame with first and second sidewalls in spaced parallel relation that house a heating board and a slant board. The slant board is positioned below the heating board and both slope downwardly. Specifically, the heating board has a plurality of slots therein such that juice from a food product flows through the slots and onto the slant board. Adjacent and below the heating board and slant board is a flange that is positioned such that when a food product is placed on the heating board the food product rolls toward the flange and simultaneously juice flows from off the slant board into a juice tray disposed below the flange.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Benchmark USA, Inc.Inventor: Tom S. Berger
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Patent number: 8347874Abstract: The inventions disclosed herein relate to frame assemblies for gas barbecue grills which incorporate structures for preventing a consumer from storing replacement fuel tanks on the grill, in order to minimize fire and tipping hazards. Because it is known that many consumers never install or even remove prior art tank blockers, the tank blocker of the present invention is adapted to serve as a function of the grill (in addition to the function of blocking a tank) or to support a component of the grill. The preferred embodiment of the tank blocker described herein is adapted to support a component of the grease management system, namely the grease drip pan. Consequently, it is believed that consumers will be forced to install or will be prevented from removing the tank blocker, lest the grease management system become inoperable (or function improperly), causing grease to spill onto the cart.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products Co.Inventors: Adrian A. Bruno, Daniel S. Choi, Leonard Zelek
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Patent number: 8242413Abstract: A method of controlling an oven is provided. The oven includes a first heater, a second heater having a lower output than the first heater, at least one third heater, and at least one fan blowing a heat of the third heater to a cavity. The first heater operates for cooking food and then the second heater operates after the first heater stops. Then, the third heater and the fan continuously operate while the first heater and second heater operate.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Moo Yeon Choi, Eui-Seog Jeong
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Patent number: 8104399Abstract: A cage for holding a filling material includes a housing have a first part and a second part. An orifice is defined between the first part and the second part for holding a filling material. The housing is shaped in a manner such that is it insertable inside a cavity and has an open position in which filling material may be inserted into the orifice. The housing also has a closed position in which the filling material is trapped within the orifice. The housing is cage-like for holding the filling material. The housing may include a handle, hinges for joining the first and second parts, and a latching mechanism for latching the first and second parts together.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Inventor: Mark Levie
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Patent number: 8037879Abstract: A heat distributing tray for use in a barbecue grill includes a corrugated unitary body of heat conducting material having alternating solid and grated walls which define channels. More specifically, the body includes first and second side portions defined by both solid walls which extend at gradually decreasing angles with respect to a common horizontal plane and varying length grated walls interconnecting the solid walls. In use, the tray is placed over one or more heating elements in a barbecue housing, with radiant and convective heat from the heating element being optimally distributed throughout the entire interior portion of the barbecue grill due to the relative structure and configuration of the solid walls in relation to the grated walls.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Ryan S. Murrin, Joel M. Sells
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Patent number: 7971522Abstract: In summary there is provided in one embodiment a grill liner for placement on top of a cooking grate and used to cook food placed thereon. The grill liner includes a plurality of holes to help allow heat to move through the grill liner. The grill liner further includes at least one flap that is secured to a portion of the grill liner through a frangible bridge, point, or line of weakness. The frangible bridge when broken permits the flap to bend downwardly. The grill liner when placed on the cooking grate may then have its one or more flaps bent downwardly through bars such that the grill liner movement across the cooking grate can be limited.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Handi-Foil CorporationInventor: Norton Sarnoff
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Patent number: 7781702Abstract: A cooking apparatus is disclosed. The cooking apparatus includes a housing having a cooking chamber and a heating unit. The heating unit includes a partition plate detachably installed in the chamber, the partition plate partitioning the chamber into sub-chambers, and a heater configured to heat at least one of the sub-chambers.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Young-Sok Nam, Hyeun Sik Nam, Yong Soo Lee, Seong Ho Cho
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Patent number: 7777158Abstract: A steaming oven having a collector plate disposed in an oven chamber. A collector plate is disposed above a boiling water reservoir in the oven chamber. The collector plate has a drain tube inserted into an overfill tube. Waste material from the steam and food droppings is conveyed from the oven chamber via the drain tube and the overfill tube. A barrier shields one or more water level probes or sensors from water turbulence, thereby providing reliable water level sensing by the water level probes or sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Cleveland RangeInventors: Victor D. Saltenis, Carl F. Scheu, III, Rupesh T. Savadekar, David S. Schwerzler, Joseph S. Bellassai, John E. Richnafsky, Jason D. Schreiner
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Patent number: 7640849Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a base, and lower and upper cooking plates pivotally mounted to the base such as to permit: (a) the upper cooking plate to be pivotted to an open position with respect to the lower cooking plate for introducing and removal of food articles between the cooking surfaces of the two cooking plates; (b) the upper cooking then to be pivotted to a closed position with respect to the lower cooking plate for contacting the food article between the cooking surfaces of the two cooking plates; and (c) both plates to be pivotted to any desired angular position with respect to the base for drawing fluids from the food article while being cooked between the cooking surfaces of the two cooking plates.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: AAC Trade Ltd.Inventor: Ann Grant
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Publication number: 20090288563Abstract: A toaster-and-oven device with visible interior, wherein bread or cooking ingredients are added and removed through the side, and wherein the bread can be gripped while toasting.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventor: Jaesang Lim
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Patent number: 7600469Abstract: A barbecue device includes two cooking plates. The first cooking plate has two hinge joints at both rear ends, with each joint including an elliptical cavity, a shoulder on its inner wall, and a rib projected from the inner wall. The second pivotal cooking plate has two arc rabbets corresponding to the hinge joint, with each arc rabbet adapted to fit onto the joint and slide thereon. An inverted U-shaped handle is pivotally secured to the first cooking plate and has two rotation portions at both ends. Each rotation portion includes a projecting pin inserted into the elliptical cavity, disposed at one end of the elliptical cavity, and being lengthwise slidable therein, and a projecting stop member being parallel to the pin. The hinge is adapted to adjust an angle between the cooking plates in response to different thickness of foodstuffs or the number of foodstuffs to be broiled.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Uni-Splendor Corp.Inventor: Yu-Yuan Lin
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Patent number: 7475632Abstract: An infrared barbecue grill which includes a body, a pair of infrared burners, a first shield member, a first baffle installed on the outer edge of the first shield member, a second shield member, a second baffle having a first edge installed on the outer edge of the second shield and having a lug, a grate placed on the body, a heat dissipator arranged on a bottom of the body, and a water basin mounted under the heat dissipator, whereby the baffles will guide the heat through the holes thereon to the region of the grate where the infrared ray emitted from the infrared burners cannot cover, the lug will prevent the rear infrared burner from emitting infrared rays directly to the user, and the water basin will provide water vapor to add moisture to the food on the grate thereby making the food juicy and delicious to eat.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Grand Hall Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: William Home
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Patent number: 7472644Abstract: An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy from vertically oriented toaster heating elements located juxtaposed to the large vertical faces of the basket and from at least one elongated heating member located below the vertical baking basket with the axis of the elongated heating member oriented nominally horizontal and parallel to the longer horizontal axis of the vertically oriented baking basket.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Edgecraft CorporationInventor: Daniel D. Friel, Sr.
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Publication number: 20080289512Abstract: A toaster for bread-type food products includes a housing defining at least one toasting cavity having an upper mouth for depositing the food products into the cavity and a lower opening from which toasted food products exit the cavity. A perforate rack is provided beneath the lower opening and onto which the toasted food products are deposited as they exit the cavity. The rack is perforated to significantly reduce the surface area of the rack which might otherwise stick to the toasted food products. An imperforate plate is juxtaposed behind the perforate rack to prevent crumbs from the toasted food products from falling into the bottom of the toaster. The plate is spaced from the rack a sufficient distance to prevent any portions of the toasted food products from projecting through the perforate rack and touching the plate and sticking thereto. As disclosed herein, the perforate rack is provided as a wire form structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Robert C. Long, Michael M. Maciejewski
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Patent number: 7442901Abstract: An electric oven includes an oven body, a first convection system having a first convection heater and a first convection fan that are installed in the oven body to operate for a first space in the oven body, and a second convection system having a second convection heater and a second convection fan that are installed in the oven body to operate for a second space in the oven body. Further, the first and second convection fans are driven by a single common driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jae Kyung Yang, Dong Seong Kwag
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Patent number: 7421942Abstract: A grease collection system is provided that may be connected to an oven for the real-time removal of grease from the heating chamber while maintaining a closed system. In particular, one end of a grease removal conduit is placed in communication with a drain in the cooking chamber, and the other end of the conduit is placed in a portable reservoir for the disposal of grease having a predetermined fluid level to prevent ambient air from entering the heating chamber during the preparation of food product.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.Inventors: William J. Hansen, Janus Bartelick
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Patent number: 7377210Abstract: A grease receiving and holding system includes a sink that has a peripheral flange having an opening extending therethrough. A housing is mounted below a plane of the peripheral flange. The housing has a bottom wall, a top wall and a peripheral wall extending between and is attached to the top and bottom walls. A pipe has a first end and a second end. The first end is fluidly coupled to the housing. A funnel is fluidly attached to the second end of the pipe. The funnel has an upper edge that has a diameter that is substantially equal to a diameter of the opening. A peripheral lip is attached to and extends around the upper edge. The peripheral lip is abuttable against the flange when the funnel is positioned in the opening. Grease may be poured down the funnel and into the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Inventor: Geno A. Franco
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Patent number: 7373875Abstract: The present invention provides a cooking grate for use within a barbecue grill assembly comprising a cooking chamber and a gas burner positioned in a lower portion of the cooking chamber. The grate has a plurality of elongated members defining a cooking surface and multiple openings. The grate further has a grease control assembly that is cooperatively positioned over a burner flame region to direct and control the flow of grease generated by cooking food on the grate. The grease control assembly has at least one rib group and at least one ledge. The rib group comprises a plurality of ribs, each rib having a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The grease control assembly also has an outer ridge and an inner ridge depending from a lower surface of the grate. With these structures, the grate prevents grease and byproducts from draining onto the burner flame region.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products Co.Inventors: Adrian A. Bruno, Erich Schlosser, Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 7350458Abstract: A hanging roaster combines a “drip” pan, two pan-supports for suspending the pan from a rack (typically the top rack) in an oven, and at least two skewer-supports for supporting a food-carrying skewer spaced above the pan bottom and below the top rack of the oven. The pan-supports are pivotable to facilitate compact storage of the hanging roaster.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Lapform Products, Inc.Inventor: Marc Leibowitz
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Patent number: 7241466Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a gas grill or add-on component for a gas grill that provides the additional functionality of permitting grilling with either gas, charcoal briquettes, or wood chips. The additional functionality of being able to cook with charcoal or wood chips on a gas grill is achieved by positioning moveable flaps in a second position thus providing a horizontal surface above the gas burner, yet below the cooking surface, upon which to place charcoal briquettes. Spaces on either side of each pair of flaps allow the gas burners to be used to ignite the charcoal briquettes or wood chips. Once the charcoal briquettes or wood chips are ignited, use of the gas burner is discontinued. The charcoal or wood chips are permitted to burn to complete ash, then the moveable flaps are placed to a first position thus forming an apex that permits the ash to fall into an ash pan located in the bottom of the firebox.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Meco CorporationInventor: J. Scott Dellinger
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Patent number: 7228792Abstract: A cooker has a pan of circular configuration with an open upper end receiving a circular lid and a bottom having apertures therein. A disk shaped drip tray disposed below the pan and having upstanding lugs thereon is selectively moved between raised and lowered positions using opposite latching mechanisms which adjustably couple the drip tray to the pan. In the raised position, the drip tray engages the bottom of the pan and the lugs on the drip tray extend into and close the apertures in the pan. In the lowered position, the lugs are removed from the apertures, permitting greases, fats and similar substances to drain through the apertures and onto the drip tray. The latching mechanisms permit separation of the drip tray from the pan for separate cleansing thereof such as by placing in a dishwasher.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Original Ideas, Inc.Inventors: Alan D. Crawford, Robert A. DeMars, Spencer L. Mackay, John R. Petersen
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Patent number: 7210402Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a body, a pair of heating units, a grill unit, a heat reflecting unit, and a cooling fan. The heating units are arranged between the grill unit and the heat reflecting unit. The heat reflecting unit includes inner and outer reflecting plates that are inclined at certain angles to reflect heat radiated from the heating units toward the grill unit. The cooling fan is positioned in an inner space of the heat reflecting unit. The heat reflecting unit has front, rear, and side plates, which are provided with a plurality of through holes, so that air passes through the inner space of the heat reflecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Sung Han, Chul Kim, Yong-Woon Han, Seong-Deog Jang, Kyung-Hee Hahm, Joo-Yeong Yeo, Han-Seong Kang
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Patent number: 7150220Abstract: A cooking apparatus which allows an interior of a cabinet thereof to be easily cleaned. The cooking apparatus includes a cabinet. The cabinet has an opening in a top surface defining a heating space. A heating unit to heat food is installed in the heating space and heat is transmitted from the heating unit to the food. A grill unit is seated on the top surface of the cabinet to support the food over the opening. A contamination preventing unit is installed in the heating space to prevent an inside surface of the cabinet from being contaminated with material dropping from the food. The cooking apparatus of the present invention guides splashed material back to a tray when the material collides with the tray splashes. The contamination preventing unit may be removed from the heating space, enabling a user to easily clean the contamination preventing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Sung Han, Chul Kim, Yong-Woon Han, Seong-Deog Jang, Kyung-Hee Hahm, Joo-Yeong Yeo, Han-Seong Kang
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Patent number: 7146906Abstract: The present invention relates to a brazier grill and a brazier with such grill used for cooking foodstuffs. Said brazier grill (2) is single layered and comprises grooved grill bars (4, 4?, 4?), which are placed in parallel to each other and remove molten fats and cooking liquids emanating from foodstuffs placed thereon during grilling. Two such grooved grill bars (4, 4?, 4?) are placed side by side in parallel with a b2 distance to form a grill grill opening (6) corresponding to 1 mm to 10 mm. This grill opening (6) is formed in a direction perpendicular (T) to the grill so as to allow heat rays emitted from an underneath heat source to pass directly (without encountering any obstructions) through such grill openings to reach a foodstuff on said grooved grill bars during grilling.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Inventor: Hikmet Kuran
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Patent number: 7073429Abstract: The present invention provides a cooking grate for use within a barbecue grill assembly comprising a cooking chamber and a gas burner positioned in a lower portion of the cooking chamber. The grate has a plurality of elongated members defining a cooking surface and multiple openings. The grate further has a grease control assembly that is cooperatively positioned over a burner flame region to direct and control the flow of grease generated by cooking food on the grate. The grease control assembly has at least one rib group and at least one ledge. The rib group comprises a plurality of ribs, each rib having a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The grease control assembly also has an outer ridge and an inner ridge depending from a lower surface of the grate. With these structures, the grate prevents grease and byproducts from draining onto the burner flame region.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2002Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products Co.Inventors: Adrian A. Bruno, Erich Schlosser, Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 7036424Abstract: An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy from vertically oriented toaster heating elements located juxtaposed to the large vertical faces of the basket and from at least one elongated heating member located below the vertical baking basket with the axis of the elongated heating member oriented nominally horizontal and parallel to the longer horizontal axis of the vertically oriented baking basket.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Edgecraft CorporationInventor: Daniel D. Friel, Sr.
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Patent number: 7021200Abstract: A cooking apparatus having a body, one or more heating units, a grill unit, and a heat reflecting unit. The heating units are arranged between the grill unit and the heat reflecting unit. The heat reflecting unit has front and rear plates, side plates, and a pair of inner reflecting plates and a pair of outer reflecting plates. The inner reflecting plates are upwardly projected to be higher than the outer reflecting plates. The front plate includes an upper surface and inner and outer surfaces, and is provided in the upper surface thereof with a water inlet, and in the inner surface thereof with an overflow hole. The front plate has a water level window to ascertain a level of water. The front plate is positioned outside the body so that oil and sauce are prevented from entering the inner space of the heat reflecting unit through the water inlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Sung Han, Chul Kim, Yong-Woon Han, Seong-Deog Jang, Kyung-Hee Hahm, Joo-Yeong Yeo, Han-Seong Kang
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Patent number: 6966253Abstract: A V-shaped flavor plate is used in a barbecue in place of briquettes. The V-shaped flavor plate has three inverted V-shaped sections forming three peaks and two valleys. A plurality of spaced oblong openings are located along a lowermost surface of the valleys. The openings are separated by ridges that prevent the collection of flammable liquids.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2002Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Onward Multi-Corp Inc.Inventor: Theodore A. Witzel
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Patent number: 6931985Abstract: A cooking vessel that combines the functions of a grill and an oven. The vessel includes a cooking chamber having an upwardly arched ceiling comprised of fire brick. A cooking surface is located within the cooking chamber. A pull-out mechanism is attached to the cooking surface and is adapted to move the cooking surface in and out of the cooking chamber through a front opening. The front opening defines a baffle, which traps heat in the cooking chamber. Two infrared gas burners, located below and outboard from the cooking surface, heat food located on the cooking surface directly. Radiant heat from the ceiling indirectly heats the food.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Inventor: Nobile Attie
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Patent number: RE40285Abstract: A grill device includes two independently controllable cooking sets confining two isolate cooking spaces such that two different meat pieces can be grilled therein under different cooking temperatures at the same time. Each of the cooking sets has a cooking plate provided with first and second grill ribs alternately disposed thereon. The first grill rib has a horizontal flat portion and a curved portion extending curvedly and downwardly from the flat portion. The second grill rib has a horizontal flat portion, and a curved portion extending curvedly and upwardly from the flat portion. The curved portion of the second grill rib has an elevation higher than those of the flat portions of the first and second ribs to prevent sliding out a meat piece from the cooking plate when the meat piece is disposed on the flat portions of the first and second grill ribs.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Tsann Kuen USA, Inc.Inventor: Tsan-Kuen Wu