Imperforate Sheet Or Griddle Type Patents (Class 99/422)
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Patent number: 12234993Abstract: A hob has a hob plate for putting a pan having a remote communication device thereon and multiple heating devices under said hob plate, a hob controller and a main communication device having a transmitter and a receiver for communicating with the pan to measure a distance between itself and the remote communication device. Said main communication device belongs to the hob controller and is designed to use a Bluetooth communication protocol and to receive an individual identifier of the remote communication device and to store the latter in the hob controller. The hob and the main communication device are switched on and a pan having a remote communication device is put onto the hob plate, this being detected. The distance between the main communication device and the remote communication device of the pan is then measured, and the pan position of the pan on the hob is thus determined. This pan position is stored along with the individual identifier of the remote communication device in the hob controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbHInventors: Jonathan Berner, Marcus Frank, Marius Lehner
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Patent number: 12193600Abstract: A food cooking appliance includes a panel having a thermal inertia, and a heater to heat the panel from the bottom face thereof. The panel has at least two plates that lie on top of each other. Plates are made of different materials and are in close contact with one another across part of the facing surfaces thereof. The upper plate being suitable to receive the food to be cooked, and is made of stainless steel or titanium. The lower plate is made of cast iron. A method for manufacturing a panel consisting of two metal plates that are made of different materials and are bonded together in a metal casting process.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SISTERIAInventor: Rémy Lampaert
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Patent number: 12063731Abstract: A method for controlling a heating operation of an induction cooktop includes generating a direct current (DC) power from an alternating current (AC) power source. The DC power is supplied to a first resonant inverter and a second resonant inverter via a power supply bus. A switching frequency of each of the first resonant inverter and the second resonant inverter is controlled and in response to the switching frequency supplied to a plurality of induction coils of the resonant inverters, an electromagnetic field is generated. A selective tuning operation of the first resonant inverter or the second resonant inverter includes controlling a connection of a capacitor to either the first resonant inverter or the second resonant inverter.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Salvatore Baldo, Stefano Moroni, Davide Parachini, Cristiano Vito Pastore, Gioacchino Prestigiacomo
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Patent number: 12035836Abstract: A cookware assembly including a cooking vessel with a vessel side wall and an elongated handle extending outwardly from the sidewall, a cover, an opening in at least one of the vessel side wall and the cover in an area above the elongated handle, and a utensil, where the handle of the utensil rests in relation to the elongated handle and the opening permits the utensil component to reside in the interior of the covered cooking vessel when the cover is on the cooking vessel. The cover can be placed on the cooking vessel in a plurality of positions, to allow the utensil to pass to the interior of the cooking vessel, to allow pouring from the cooking vessel with the cover on, and to seal the cover on the cooking vessel without the utensil. An auxiliary vessel can also be included as part of the cooking assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Lagom Kitchen Co.Inventors: Amir Tehrani, Zachary Rosner
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Patent number: 12029347Abstract: A foldable grill device includes a cooking grill, a heating device which is operated with a flammable gas, and a carrier frame which holds the cooking grill. The carrier frame includes plate-shaped walls, and at least two opposite bearing elements in which the heating device is held to be releasable. The plate shaped walls are interconnected via releasable plug-in connections so that a release of the releasable plug-in connections converts the foldable grill device into a transport and storage state in which the plate-shaped walls and the cooking grill are placed one on top of another to form a flat stack. The heating device is provided as a tubular fuel rod which a first end, a second end which is arranged opposite to the first end, and a plurality of outlet openings for an outflow of the flammable gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: VENNSKAP GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Christian Battel
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Patent number: 11980324Abstract: A placeable cooktop utensil includes: a handle for handling the placeable utensil; a controller; a transmitter unit for transmitting signals from the placeable utensil to the cooktop; and at least one input unit having at least one input area integrated in the handle for a user of the placeable utensil to input a user command, the transmitter unit and the at least one input unit being connected in signal communication with the controller, and the cooktop being controllable by the user command. The handle has a gripping portion for gripping and manually moving the placeable utensil and at least one input portion. The at least one input area is in the at least one input portion. At least one sensor for detecting the handle being approached and/or contacted by the user, is in the gripping portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MIELE & CIE. KGInventors: Christoph Mueller, Nils Marius Gehring, Niels Ohrmann, Daniel Ebke
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Patent number: 11963641Abstract: Cooking food vessel including a metal body, a handle, constrained to a portion of the metal body via a metal fixing element, a metal flame guard ring, placed in contact with a metal body portion to provide thermal conduction, and a thermal signalling device including at least one bimetal sheet formed of a first metal material and a second metal material having coefficients of thermal expansion different from each other. The bimetal sheet is placed in contact with components having thermal conductivity properties and is preset for signalling attainment of predefined heating value by progressive mechanical movement related to the cooking vessel becoming hot. The flame guard ring has one or more through holes and the bimetal sheet shaped and dimensioned so at least one indicating portion thereof is at least partially visible through the through holes at a specific temperature value.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ZWILLING BALLARINI ITALIA SRLInventor: Francesco Ferron
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Patent number: 11877693Abstract: Embodiments of an outdoor cooking station having a main body and a griddle with a hood pivotably coupled to the griddle are provided. For safety purposes, the griddle is removably secured to an upper portion of the main body with the legs of the griddle positioned within apertures defined in an upward facing surface of the upper portion of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: North Atlantic Imports, LLCInventors: James C. Bush, III, Gary E. Graham, Steve L. Puertas, Michael R. Giebel
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Patent number: 11871871Abstract: Portable cooking stations having interlocking sear grates and griddles are disclosed. An example portable cooking station includes a sear grate and a griddle. The griddle is configured to be removably interlocked to the sear grate in a side-by-side arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLCInventors: Cassandra A.S. McVey, Romualdo Sonny Siazon, Brett Jessogne
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Patent number: 11857109Abstract: An oil-less frying stand device includes a main body having plurality of elongated legs, an upper shelf, a lower shelf, and a plurality of wheels. The lower shelf includes an enlarged opening for receiving and engaging a 20 lb propane tank. A hollow pipe extends upward from the top surface of the upper shelf. The pipe includes an open top end for receiving an elongated rotisserie spit, and a rotisserie motor is positioned along the bottom end of the hollow pipe. The pipe includes a circular shape and size that is suitable for insertion within the drain opening of a commercially available oil-less fat frying device. A drain opening is positioned along the top shelf at a location adjacent to the hollow pipe, and a circular-shaped lip encircles both the drain opening and the pipe. A drain tube is in communication with the bottom end of the drain opening to remove liquids from the area within the circular lip.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Stephen Borden
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Patent number: 11856962Abstract: A heating/smoker device is disclosed which uses the heat and/or smoke from existing sources and uses it to heat up serveware or food, or smoke food. The heating/smoker device is durable and versatile and can adopt to virtually any heat/smoke source.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Arnold Craig Marcum
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Patent number: 11832761Abstract: A cooking system includes a housing having a hollow interior and a container disposable within the hollow interior and including a bottom surface. The container defines a container cavity for receiving food to be cooked. A support body is positionable within the hollow interior to support food. The support body is disposable within the container cavity. The container cavity includes a clearance area between a bottom of the support body and the bottom surface of the container. A heating element operably coupled to the support body.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLCInventors: Joshua D. Anthony, Christopher T. Martin, Thomas Guerin, John M. Steinmetz, Ethan T. Brown, Chad P. Woodrow, Michaela Dubeau, Jennifer Kathryn Marsden, Roger Neil Jackson, Christina J. Crowley, Rupert Elliston, Andrew John Roy Tattersfield
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Patent number: 11668468Abstract: Disclosed herein is a partition wall assembly for a stove. The partition wall assembly for a stove includes a plurality of partition walls (100, 100a, 100b, 100c). Each of the partition walls includes: an outer panel (110) having first air intake holes (111a) formed at a lower portion thereof so that first air is induced; an inner panel (120) coupled to the inside of the outer panel (110), and having an air moving space (119) formed between the outer panel (110) and the inner panel (120) so that the first air induced through the first air intake holes (111a) moves in the air moving space (119) while temperature of the first air is elevated, and second air outlets (121b) formed at an upper portion thereof to discharge the second air with the elevated temperature toward fuel; and a pair of side coupling members (130) disposed at both sides of the outer panel (110) to couple the outer panel (110) and the inner panel (120) with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Inventor: Eun Mi Hwang
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Patent number: 11583136Abstract: A griddle includes a griddle plate, a heating element, a frame, and a plurality of nuts. The heating element provides heat to the griddle plate when the griddle is used. The frame includes a plurality of walls, a flange that extends from top edges of the plurality of walls, a plurality of studs mounted to extend upward from the flange, and a bottom wall that extends from bottom edges of the plurality of walls toward an interior of the plurality of walls. The heating element is mounted to the bottom wall. A nut of the plurality of nuts is mounted on each stud of the plurality of studs. A bottom surface of the griddle plate is mounted to abut each nut of the plurality of nuts to define an air gap around a perimeter of the griddle plate between the flange and the bottom surface of the griddle plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Sub-Zero Group, Inc.Inventor: Bronson Blum
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Patent number: 11529016Abstract: Fire pit systems including a base pan member having a base pan member lower wall with a pan outer periphery, and one or more side walls extending upward from the base pan member lower wall and along the pan outer periphery; at least two rod members extending upward along opposite sides of the pan outer periphery; and one or more additional accessories that are attachable to and detachable from at least one of the at least two rod members, the one or more additional accessories comprising a griddle, a grill, a coffee pot, a Dutch oven, a tubular spacer, a pot holder, a horizontal bar extending between two rod members of the at least two rod members, a warming tray, or any combination thereof. Methods of making and using the fire pit systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: KUDU SAFARI BRAAI, LLCInventor: Stebin Horne, III
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Patent number: 11517135Abstract: A cookware assembly including a cooking vessel with a vessel side wall and an elongated handle extending outwardly from the sidewall, a cover, an opening in at least one of the vessel side wall and the cover in an area above the elongated handle, and a utensil, where the handle of the utensil rests in relation to the elongated handle and the opening permits the utensil component to reside in the interior of the covered cooking vessel when the cover is on the cooking vessel. The cover can be placed on the cooking vessel in a plurality of positions, to allow the utensil to pass to the interior of the cooking vessel, to allow pouring from the cooking vessel with the cover on, and to seal the cover on the cooking vessel without the utensil. An auxiliary vessel can also be included as part of the cooking assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Lagom Kitchen Co.Inventors: Amir Tehrani, Zachary Rosner
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Patent number: 11460349Abstract: A sensor probe (10) for measuring a food preparation parameter, comprises an elongate handle portion (12) for manipulating the sensor probe, an elongate sensor portion (14), and a stepped connecting portion (16) connecting the handle portion (12) and the sensor portion (14), such that the longitudinal axis of the handle portion is offset with respect to the longitudinal axis of the sensor portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Electrolux Appliances AktiebolagInventors: Jennifer Burkhardt, Michael Herzog, Scott King, Bianca Puchinger
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Patent number: 11058257Abstract: A grill or BBQ appliance that is generally intended for outdoor use has a pivoting hood disposed in hinged connection with a grill body, both of which are raised above a firebox that receives a food support grate. The hood may include a counterbalance mechanism to stably position the hood through a range of open positions. The hood may further include an opening or closing assist to assist a user in opening or closing the hood.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Hestan Commercial CorporationInventors: Hans F. Wenzel, Chris Moy
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Patent number: 10945563Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a cutting board tray for capturing foodstuffs removed from the cutting board. The cutting board tray comprises a a planar base portion configured to be positioned between a bottom surface of a cutting board and a support surface on which both the cutting board and tray are positioned; at least one raised edge extending perpendicular from the base portion; and at least one open edge. In various embodiments, the planar base portion is sufficiently thin that the cutting board remains stable when a contact portion of the bottom surface of the cutting board is positioned on the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Inventor: Ravi Singh
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Patent number: 10898030Abstract: A countertop appliance and related methods of fabrication using a floating mounting assembly to connect a cooking surface to a mounting frame. The floating mounting assembly allows the cooking surface to expand and contract in response to changing temperature without translating these dimensional changes to the mounting frame and negatively impacting the integrity or appearance of the countertop appliance. The floating mounting assembly can include a grommet assembly that connects to elongated apertures defined in the mounting frame. As the cooking surface expands and contracts, the grommet assembly can slide within the elongated aperture. Through the use of the elongated aperture, dimensional changes in the cooking surface are not directly translated to the mounting frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: National Presto Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jesse Kukuk, Ryan H. Barrows
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Patent number: 9314122Abstract: The invention relates to a bowl for mixing food. At least one group of at least three knobs (12; 12?; 12?) is attached to the outside of the base (10) of said bowl. All the knobs of a group protrude outwards to a common plane so that the bowl can be placed onto an even surface (70) in an orientation that is inclined with respect to the direction of gravity in such a manner that said bowl lies on the even surface (70) with all the knobs (12; 12?; 12?) of said group.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: PI-DESIGN AGInventor: Jorgen Bodum
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Patent number: 9061793Abstract: A cover for a food holder includes a body having an inner surface and an outer surface, the body having at least one aperture provided therein, the at least one aperture providing communication between the inner surface and the outer surface; and a serving implement having a first portion extending through the aperture along one of the inner and outer surfaces, and a second portion extending along the other of the inner and outer surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: BRADSHAW INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Thomas Barber
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Publication number: 20150096447Abstract: Disclosed is a direct fire grill pan including a grill pan with a heat inflow port formed therein, and a lid having an upwardly convex groove portion formed on a ceiling thereof and an exhaust port formed on a side wall thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: HappyCall Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyun sam Lee
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Patent number: 8955426Abstract: An efficient reversible grilling device is used for grilling, broiling, frying, baking, boiling and steaming. It is a single element made of rigid heat conductive material with one side being flat and the other side having a plurality of nesting recesses for spherical and ovate food products. The maximum height of the reversible cooking device is ? inch. Each of the plurality of nesting recesses has a depth greater than 50% of the height of the grilling device. A plurality of orifices cut through the element in the areas of the nesting recesses and in the areas away from the nesting recesses. Either surface can be used to prepare foods while providing fat and grease drainage.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Glynntech, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
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Patent number: 8899145Abstract: A tool for removing an interchangeable cooking insert from a grill has a handle end and an engagement end. A handle extends from the handle end toward the engagement end. A support arm extends from the handle toward the engagement end. The support arm has a first lateral edge defining a first lifting hook and a second lateral edge defining a second lifting hook. The first lifting hook and second lifting hook are configured to engage a portion of the cooking insert. A support pin extends across the support arm between the first lateral edge and the second lateral edge. A latch member is pivotally coupled to one of the support arm and the handle. The latch member includes a first end selectively engageable with a portion of the cooking insert and a second end extending through the handle for actuation of the latching member by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Techtronic Power Tools Technology LimitedInventors: Ryan T. Harrison, Thomas Parel, Robert Warren, Kenneth M. Brazell, Zachary Scott, Scott Kippes, Mark Huggins, Taku Ohi, Jason Porter Whitmire, Adam Clark, Robert McCracken, Christopher Clearman
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Patent number: 8899146Abstract: An apparatus for cooking ground beef hamburgers by reflecting and trapping thermal energy and simultaneous accelerated bun cooking. The apparatus comprised of a plate that is hinged to the sidewall of the griddle for the simultaneous cooking of both sides of ground beef and buns on both sides. Once meat is placed in a first cooking area, the plates on the hinge are rotated down and come to rest on the meat, applying slight pressure to the meat. Plates are attached to the side wall and to the rear wall. Modified plates are used to facilitate the rotation of a large wire frame that contains a metal chain mail fabric into a second cooking area. When buns are placed in the second cooking area, the chain mail frame is brought down onto the outer sides of the buns, putting weight on the buns and accelerating their cooking time.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: EBIP Holdings, LLCInventor: Hans Karl Hess
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Publication number: 20140326145Abstract: A tabletop cooking assembly for preparing foods thereon comprises a cooking element having a cooking area and a vent disposed peripherally to one side of the cooking element defining an aperture for receiving smoke from the cooking element. The assembly includes a first exhaust duct, a filter assembly, an electrostatic precipitator, and a high velocity blower. The first exhaust duct is substantially unobstructed and in fluid communication with the vent for directing smoke away from the cooking element. The high velocity blower is in fluid communication with the first exhaust duct and the filter assembly for drawing smoke from the cooking element through the vent. The heating system includes a retaining plate, a plurality of heating strips, and an insulating material. The heating strips are disposed between the retaining plate and the heating surface to heat the cooking area for preparing foods thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventor: William B. McEvoy
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Publication number: 20140311358Abstract: Provided is a food cooking surface for a cookware item or an electrical household cooking appliance, consisting of a deposit of nitride of metal elements on a substrate, the metal elements of the deposit comprising one or more X transition metal(s) and aluminium. The production of the deposit comprises a nitridation step in arder to obtain a coating of type (X,Al)N. According to the invention, the (X,Al)N-type coating is a coating of nitride(s) of the one or more X transition metal(s), enriched with aluminium, in which niobium and/or zirconium is/are make up the most part of the X transition metal(s), the atomic ratio of aluminium in the metal elements of the deposit being at least equal to 20%. Also provided are cookware items and electrical household appliances intended for the cooking of food, comprising the above-mentioned type of cooking surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Philippe Pigeat, Jean-Francois Pierson, Alexandre Mege-Revil, Frederic Tessier, Simon Allemand, Stephane Tuffe
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Patent number: 8863653Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a base (3) doubled underneath via an insert (1a) made from a hard material with openings (7) crossing the insert for the fixing thereof to the base. At least some of the openings are in the form of elongated slots (31a) individually defining over the length thereof, a global arched form with opposing end portions either leading to the centre of the insert or to the external periphery (10a) of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: SEB S.A.Inventors: Jocelyn Bonnel, Pascal Cuillery
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Publication number: 20140305319Abstract: An electric cooking appliance comprises a base frame having a front and rear and left and right sides connecting the front and rear. A generally planar, electrically heated cooking surface is supported by the base frame and has a front and rear edge and a pair of sides connecting the front and rear edges. A splash guard is removably or secured to and extends upwardly from the rear edge and a portion of each of the sides of the cooking surface. A recess or groove is formed in the cooking surface to collect excess cooking oil; and an oil reservoir is carried by the base frame and in fluid communication with the recess in the cooking surface to collect cooking oil from the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: Nomura USA, Inc.Inventor: Jinzhao Feng
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Publication number: 20140261012Abstract: In another aspect, a cooking grill includes a housing and a lid defining an enclosed cooking chamber when the lid is closed; a heating element located in the housing; and a rack movable between a first location extending over the heating element and a second location not over the heating element. The cooking grill further includes a plurality of grilling modules that are individually removable from, and supported on, the rack. Each grilling module defines a cooking surface having passageways therein for directly exposing food to rising heat from the heating element when the rack is in the first position. The passageways preferably are in the form of slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Juan Carlos Perez, Jr., Louis J. Foreman, Todd Stancombe, Ryan Shane Gorman, Daniel Lee Bizzell
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Publication number: 20140261008Abstract: An outdoor cooker having a heavy metal, circular housing with an open top and a closed bottom. A grill sleeve and grill pivot tube are attached to the housing and to a circular grill. The grill pivot tube is used to pivot the grill above the open top of the housing and receiving and cooking food items on the grill. The cooker also including a skillet sleeve and skillet pivot tube attached to the housing and a circular skillet. The skillet pivot tube is used to pivot the skillet above the open top of the housing for cooking food items. The cooker also includes leg tubes attached to the outside of the housing for receiving two or more removable vertical legs. The legs are used to support the housing on a ground surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Charles J. Howard, JR., George Austin Kremer
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Patent number: 8826809Abstract: A cooking appliance includes: an input part for inputting manipulations for cooking; a cooking grill formed with a controller for outputting a control signal according to the input from the input part and a grill section for contacting food; and a panel heater in the shape of a panel formed in the cooking grill to be controlled by the controller for supplying heat to the grill section, wherein the heat of the panel heater is transmitted concentratedly to the grill section of the cooking grill and the grill section is heated concentratedly so as to cook the food, thereby minimizing the loss of heat and making grill marks appear more clearly on the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Young Jun Lee
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Patent number: 8820222Abstract: Described herein is a cooking assembly, generally comprising two major components, these components being a cooking pan and an insert 24 having a perforated portion which would retain the desired food component within the pan, and allow the fluid component to be removed through the perforations.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Magellan Group Ltd.Inventors: Andre Dean Cloutier, Debra Lynne Sasken-Duff
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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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Patent number: 8763520Abstract: A vessel incorporating an improved article support surface for supporting an article, such as a food product, during processing (e.g., baking, thawing, freezing), has a surface for supporting a food product or another article and a pattern is formed or otherwise incorporated in the article supporting surface. The pattern incorporated into the support surface is comprised of a set of points (pyramids) creating a high point and a low valley underneath the supported article or food product in which air circulates or flows during processing. In a preferred embodiment various shapes and sizes of baking sheets incorporating a “pyramid pattern” is stamped onto a metal sheet and the stamped metal sheet is then formed into the desired shape. The sheets are constructed of various metal alloys used in the food equipment industry including, but not limited to aluminum, carbon steel, stainless steel, copper, and silicone. The sheets will also be coated with a non stick substance.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Inventor: Richard Jason Sanita
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Patent number: 8757140Abstract: An apparatus for use with a commercial grill to increase safety, efficiency, and organization. The apparatus includes a barrier extending upwardly from the cooking surface, and extending along the backsplash of the grill, the barrier having an accessory staging feature along a topmost portion, the topmost portion being at least eight inches above the cooking surface. The accessory staging feature can support one or more accessories. The invention may thereby increase usable grill surface area. The apparatus can also include an attachment assembly for attaching the barrier to a standard backsplash, or the barrier can be an integral extension of the backsplash. The invention substantially reduces the likelihood of ventilation/exhaust well fires. The invention makes cleaning the factory backsplash much easier, because the backsplash is substantially protected from splatter by the invention. The invention substantially protects the stainless steel or tile kitchen back wall from splatter, smoke, grease, and soot.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Inventors: Triandafilos Hatjopoulos, George Hatjopoulos
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Publication number: 20140165851Abstract: Various embodiments of a portable cooking apparatus are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a portable cooking system is provided comprising a cooking plate having a continuous cooking surface, a heating element assembly disposed beneath the cooking surface, a temperature controller for varying the temperature of the cooking surface, and a base that supports the cooking plate on an underlying surface. The base comprises an integrally formed drip pan located beneath the cooking surface, the integrally formed drip pan comprising a recessed portion formed in a top surface of the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: EVO, INC.Inventor: Robert A. Shingler
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Patent number: 8730038Abstract: A grill controller device, which remotely controls any type or grill or oven, comprises a circuit board, a plurality of connector, a power supply system, a control panel, a plurality of temperature control units, a plurality of temperature probes, and a speaker. The grill controller device is wirelessly connected with a graphic user interface so an user can wirelessly operate the grill controller device through the graphic user interface. The grill controller device externally attaches to existing grills and ovens. The plurality of temperature control units adjusts a grill temperature and a plurality of meat temperatures according to the user. A plurality of alerts is controlled by control software and the plurality of alerts comprises different functionality relative to different components. The user is able to control total functionality of the existing grills and ovens through the grill controller device while saving time.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Michael Durian, Inc.Inventor: Michael B. Durian
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Publication number: 20140130788Abstract: An apparatus usable in a kettle- or kamado-style grill instead of a conventional cooking grate. The apparatus includes a cooking surface support configured for support in a base of the grill in lieu of the conventional grate, and a complementary cooking surface supportable on the cooking surface support. The cooking surface support defines open fuel ports providing access to the fuel chamber. The apparatus may include a secondary fuel basket positionable within an open fuel port. An alternative apparatus comprises a unitary body adapted to be supported in the bottom portion of the cooking grill. The unitary body comprises a structural support portion configured to abut a bottom portion of the grill, and a cooking support portion spanning more than 50% of the area of the unitary body. The unitary body defines at least one open fuel port permit admission of additional fuel to the bottom of the grill.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventor: Alfred F. Contarino, JR.
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Publication number: 20140123972Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods that aid in providing high efficiency stoves for developing and underdeveloped regions. In some embodiments, the stoves are plancha-style stoves comprise cast iron planchas that are more durable and efficient that existing stoves. The plancha-style stoves, described herein may comprise a combustion chamber comprising an inlet, a stack chamber comprising an inlet and an outlet; a gas path chamber, comprising a ceiling and a floor, wherein the ceiling is defined by a removable plancha cooking surface having a substantially planar upper surface and a lower surface; a chimney box; and a chimney. In many embodiments, the stack chamber defines a cross-sectional area that is larger than the cross-sectional area of the inlet to the combustion chamber to prevent smoke from escaping the combustion chamber through the inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ENVIROFIT INTERNATIONAL, LTD.Inventors: Jason A. Prapas, Jesse Walker, Nathan Lorenz, Sean Babbs, Timothy Bauer
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Publication number: 20140116415Abstract: A teppanyaki style gas flame heated griddle table having a heat deflector disposed beneath the griddle plate for directing heat radiating from underneath the griddle plate upward and through an exhaust channel between a counter and a top side of the griddle plate for directing the heated air back across the grilling surface on a top side of the griddle plate and away from persons seated around the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventor: Andreas Birke
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Patent number: 8701551Abstract: An antilip system for a food patty forming apparatus of the type having a reciprocating mold plate with at least one cavity. The system uses an adjustable escape passage to relieve pressure within a mold plate cavity. The system comprises a breather plate with antilip holes, a passage plate with antilip holes, and an adjusting bar movable between a full open position, a full closed position, and a plurality of intermediate positions. The passage plate also has a passage recycle channel for returning relieved materials to a hopper.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Formax, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Edward Doner, Ronald F. LaBruno, Joseph Allen Ebert
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Publication number: 20140096761Abstract: A home appliance having a griddle cover includes an appliance body; a cooktop on the appliance body and having a griddle; a griddle cover for removable disposition on the griddle for protecting the griddle from contaminants, the griddle cover including a cover body having a plurality of support elements on the cover body; and a mounting arrangement for removably mounting the griddle cover to the griddle including a plurality of feet mounted to the support elements for supporting the griddle cover on the griddle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Brantley, Andrew Timothy Edwards, Jeremy Nash
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Publication number: 20140083409Abstract: Provided is a cooking grate for improving cooking performance on an outdoor cooking grill. The cooking grate has a metallic plate, configured to be placed over a heat source in the outdoor cooking grill, where the metallic plate has a plurality of perforation holes. The cooking grate further includes a plurality of cooking surface ribs, configured to support food during cooking and positioned above the metallic plate. Also provided are methods of providing an improved cooking grate for an outdoor cooking grill including the steps of: perforating a metallic plate, configured to be positioned above a heat source on the outdoor cooking grill; forming a plurality of cooking surface ribs, configured to receive food to be cooked thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: 1 W.C. Bradley CompanyInventor: Robert Johnston
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Patent number: 8673449Abstract: A cooking release material includes a layer comprising fluoropolymer. The cooking release material has a major surface having nucleation structures in a density of at least 10 per square inch. The cooking release material can include a reinforcement material, the layer coated over the reinforcement material. The cooking release material can include a second layer forming the major surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics CorporationInventors: Graham A. Woerner, Timothy P. Pollock, Ephraim Lin, John Russo, Anne Hardy, Gerard Buss
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Publication number: 20140050834Abstract: A countertop griddle and related methods of cooking food with a countertop griddle including a warming tray. The warming tray can be rotatably attached to the countertop griddle such that the warming tray can be rotatably pivoted from a covering disposition to an intermediary disposition to an open disposition. When in the covering disposition, the warming tray can serve to protect a user from exposure to grease spatter and to receive heat conducted from a cooking surface. During cooking, the warming tray can be rotated to the intermediary disposition such that the user can manipulated the food item being prepared. Finally, the warming tray can be rotated to an open disposition defining a serving tray for receiving a cooked food item. The warming tray can be detached from the countertop griddle when the warming tray is positioned in any of the covering, intermediate or open dispositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Michael R. Berge, Russell W. Hall
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Patent number: 8631738Abstract: A griddle for cooking a food product includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a first side, a second side, a front side and a rear side. A serpentine passageway is formed on the lower surface. A collector tank is juxtaposed and secured directly in touching contact with the lower surface adjacent to the first side of the griddle and is in communication with the serpentine passageway. A boiler is juxtaposed and secured directly in touching contact with the lower surface adjacent to the second side of the griddle and is in communication with the serpentine passageway. Heat applied directly to at least one of the collector tank and the boiler for heating a fluid disposed therein and supplying the heated fluid to the serpentine passageway for providing heat for cooking a food product disposed on the upper surface of the griddle.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: American Griddle CorporationInventors: Vincent P. Tippmann, Joseph Tippmann
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Publication number: 20140007780Abstract: A waffle iron plate for forming a waffle having multiple scores, the plate comprising a base having a front surface and at least two spaced-apart ribs extending from the front surface of the base and configured to form the scores, whereby the waffle may be folded along the scores so as to have a bottom portion and two side portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Brian J. Fast, Ryan Adams
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Patent number: 8613250Abstract: An angled frying pan stand that includes a truncated cylindrical tilt stand rotatably disposed upon a generally circular base, the tilt stand having a bottom side and an upper surface, the upper surface disposed at an acute angle relative the bottom side, each of a pair of side supports retractably extendable upon an extendible track portion disposed on a sidewall, with a first holding edge and a second holding edge configured to support an extant frying pan at an angle upon the top surface, the angled frying pan stand including a strainer piece removably attachable over the rim of a frying pan to partition a segment of the frying pan wherein grease may collect under the influence of gravity separated from any foodstuffs in the pan.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Inventors: Brian A. Pruitt, Maleeia T. Pruitt