| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 126041000 | Broilers | 19 |
| 20080216817 | Charbroiler with Even Heat Distribution - A gas-fired charbroiler includes one or more features to provide more even heat distribution on the cooking surface. Orifices that feed respective burners can have different sizes. A baffle structure may be included on the sides of the burners. Burners may be configured such that burner port flow area per unit length varies. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080289619 | Charbroiler - Charbroilers, such as conveyorized and batch charbroilers, are disclosed wherein a single pilot flame receives gas from a gas line and is operable to ignite a plurality of burners. The charbroiler may include a housing, a conveyor removable from the housing and a shielding member removably connectable to the housing or burner and positioned between the burner and food product. The shielding member may be coated with a ceramic material and may have a color relating to a property of at least one of the shielding member and the ceramic material. In addition, the charbroiler may include a first burner and a second burner having different heating capacities. The charbroiler may also include an upper burner and lower burner positioned respectively above and below the food product and each of the upper and lower burners includes a ceramic diaphragm. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090126716 | U-SHAPED BURNER FOR GRILL - Burner for a gas grill includes an inlet section, a first straight section contiguous with the inlet section, a curved section contiguous with the first straight section, and a second straight section contiguous with the curved section and having a portion parallel to the first straight section to provide the burner with a U-shaped configuration. The curved portion has an inner side and an outer side such that the outer side has a larger radius of curvature than the inner side. The inner side of the curved portion preferably lacks apertures, and the outer side of the curved portion preferably includes apertures, such that the only exit apertures for gas being directed from the burner is through the apertures in the outer side. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090283091 | Char Broiler Grate Assembly - A grate assembly that attaches to a range is provided. The grate assembly includes first and second cantilevered supports that receive at least one grate thereupon. The first and second supports are attached to a base that includes openings sized to receive bolts disposed on the range. When the grate assembly is installed, generally on the rear wall of the range, the openings receive the bolts and orient the grate assembly in a horizontal position at a first position above a burner in the fire box of the range. The grate assembly can be raised or lowered to a second position closer or further from the burner if less or more intense heating or cooking is desired. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090314278 | Barbecue Grill with Sear Section - Various embodiments of a gas valve and a sear-zone gas burner are described and claimed herein. One embodiment described herein relates to a control valve for regulating the flow of gas to a burner tube for a barbecue grill, wherein the control valve includes multiple flow settings, including a sear setting. At the sear setting, the valve is capable of providing additional gas flow to the gas burner to provide the intense heat needed to sear food. At the remaining settings, the valve is capable of providing an appropriate amount of gas flow for conventional cooking of food. Another embodiment of the gas valve is adapted to reduce the rotational offset between the off position and the maximum flow position as compared to the valves of the prior art. In that embodiment, the angular offset between the off position and the maximum flow position is approximately 45°. Another embodiment described herein relates to a burner tube configuration comprising a plurality of standard burner tubes and at least one supplementary sear-zone burner tube which is operable independently from the standard burner tubes. The sear-zone burner tube supplements the heat generated by the adjacent standard burner tubes to supply the intense heat needed to sear food. When the sear-zone burner tube is off, the portion of the cooking surface above the sear-zone burner tube can be used for conventional cooking of food. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100282239 | COMMERCIAL CHARBROILER WITH INTEGRATED CATALYTIC HOOD - A cooking appliance having a cooking surface, a housing enclosing a heating source for heating the cooking surface disposed beneath the cooking surface, and a vertically movable cooking fume hood connected with the housing and having a cooking fume exhaust opening proximate a top of the hood. The cooking surface may be a grid-type cooking surface or a griddle-type cooking surface or a combination thereof. The heating source preferably is a gaseous fuel-fired burner. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110283992 | Cooking apparatus with pivoting shelf and hidden griddle - A cooking apparatus is provides, and the apparatus comprising: a firebowl having a peripheral edge, a bottomside, a topside opening and at least one aperture; at least one grill situated over the topside opening of the firebowl; at least one shelf having a topside surface and an underside designed to receive a griddle, and the shelves having a protrusion designed to fit and pivotally rotate within the apertures of the firebowl allowing each of the shelves to be rotated in a first position situated over the grill and a second position away from the grill, the aperture of the firebowl is situated adjacent a portion of the peripheral edge of the firebowl; and at least one griddle designed to be received within the underside of the shelf during a storage position, and the griddle may be placed upon a topside surface of the grill during a usage position. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110297140 | HEATED COMPRESSED AIR BROILER SYSTEM - An oven and broiler for cooking foods using convection and radiant heat, including a housing defining a cooking chamber with an inlet for introducing uncooked foods into the cooking chamber, an outlet for discharging cooked foods and a conveyor for conveying food product from the inlet to the outlet, an array of heating elements, and a compressed air injection system for providing a bank of moving air over the food product during the early stages of cooking so as to break up the blanket of cold air over the food product. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20130239945 | DUAL FUNCTION AIR CHANNEL FOR GAS BURNER - A gas oven includes an oven cavity, an upper gas burner disposed within the oven cavity, a venturi assembly coupled to the upper gas burner, a lower gas burner disposed within a lower burner combustion chamber. The channel member is communicatively coupled between the lower burner combustion chamber and the venturi assembly for the upper gas burner to provide an airflow path therebetween. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140144424 | BURNER ASSEMBLY - A burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The burner assembly includes a gas burner and a flame spreader. The flame spreader defines a slot or a series of apertures that is substantially parallel to the gas burner. The slot or series of apertures can decrease a thickness of a boundary layer positioned adjacent the flame spreader or increase a velocity or a temperature or both of the boundary layer. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140196712 | OVEN APPLIANCE AND A GAS BURNER ASSEMBLY FOR THE SAME - A gas burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The gas burner assembly includes a pair of burner tubes. A runner tube extends between and can fluidly connect the burner tubes of the pair of burner tubes. The runner tube can assist with carrying flames between the burner tubes of the pair of burner tubes. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140196713 | GAS BURNER ASSEMBLY FOR AN OVEN APPLIANCE - A gas burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The gas burner assembly includes a pair of burner tubes and a runner tube that extends between the pair of burner tubes. The gas burner assembly also includes features for obstructing a flow of gaseous fuel within the pair of burner tubes and/or directing gaseous fuel from the pair of burner tubes into the runner tube. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140261386 | BROIL BURNER OF A HOUSEHOLD COOKING APPLIANCE - A broil burner and a household cooking appliance having a broil burner are provided in which the household appliance includes a housing having an oven cavity and a broil burner in the oven cavity, wherein the broil burner includes a combustion surface with a plurality of ports for permitting a gas/air mixture to permeate through the combustion surface, wherein an area of the plurality of the ports is blocked or plugged to prevent the gas/air mixture from permeating through the combustion surface in the area. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140290642 | OVEN BROIL BURNER - Provided is a broil burner including a generally-tubular gas conduit configured to extend between a rearward region of an oven cavity and a forward region of the oven cavity. The gas conduit includes an inlet that cooperates with a gas source to convey a combustible gas from the gas source to the gas conduit, and a plurality of apertures through which the combustible gas exits the gas conduit to be combusted. A reflector is provided, and extends between opposing segments of the gas conduit to reflect heat generated by combustion of the combustible gas in a downward direction, generally toward a central region of the oven cavity. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150013663 | UNIVERSAL CROSSOVER CHANNEL FOR GAS GRILLS - A universal crossover channel that is adapted for use in a wide array of grills. The universal crossover includes a telescopic slide feature that allows it to be extended or shortened and brackets that can be moved both vertically and horizontally to adjust the positioning of the universal crossover channel within the grill's firebox. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150101592 | DOUBLE OVEN APPLIANCE - Double oven appliances are provided. In one embodiment, a double oven appliance includes a cabinet that extends between a top portion and a bottom portion along a vertical direction, an upper cooking chamber defined adjacent the top portion of the cabinet, the upper cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction, and a lower cooking chamber defined adjacent the bottom portion of the cabinet, the lower cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction. The double oven appliance further includes a baking gas burner disposed adjacent the bottom wall of the upper cooking chamber and configured to heat the upper cooking chamber, at least a portion of the baking gas burner spaced from a center point of the upper cooking chamber along a lateral direction. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150101593 | BROIL BAFFLE FOR AN OVEN - A broil baffle for an oven may be provided. The oven may include a broil burner configured to distribute heat. The baffle may be positioned such that the broil burner distributes heat toward the baffle. The baffle may include a plurality of dimples configured to disperse infrared radiation from the distributed heat in multiple directions away from the baffle toward a broiling surface of the oven. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160178214 | WAIST-HIGH BROILER FOR OFF-GRID PROPANE GAS RANGE APPLIANCE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20090025707 | Roasting apparatus - A cooking system having an oven including an interior heating space within an enclosure formed by a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall and a door for accessing the interior heating space wherein the oven further includes a radiant burner assembly adjacent the top wall and the oven further including a drawer assembly located adjacent the bottom wall and having a series of rollers for supporting a food product during operation of the oven. The drawer assembly includes a motor operatively connected thereto for causing the series of rollers to rotate, whereby the food product can be rotated on said rollers during operation of the oven. | 01-29-2009 |
| 126041000 | Rotary-horizontal axis | 1 |
| 20080216817 | Charbroiler with Even Heat Distribution - A gas-fired charbroiler includes one or more features to provide more even heat distribution on the cooking surface. Orifices that feed respective burners can have different sizes. A baffle structure may be included on the sides of the burners. Burners may be configured such that burner port flow area per unit length varies. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080289619 | Charbroiler - Charbroilers, such as conveyorized and batch charbroilers, are disclosed wherein a single pilot flame receives gas from a gas line and is operable to ignite a plurality of burners. The charbroiler may include a housing, a conveyor removable from the housing and a shielding member removably connectable to the housing or burner and positioned between the burner and food product. The shielding member may be coated with a ceramic material and may have a color relating to a property of at least one of the shielding member and the ceramic material. In addition, the charbroiler may include a first burner and a second burner having different heating capacities. The charbroiler may also include an upper burner and lower burner positioned respectively above and below the food product and each of the upper and lower burners includes a ceramic diaphragm. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090126716 | U-SHAPED BURNER FOR GRILL - Burner for a gas grill includes an inlet section, a first straight section contiguous with the inlet section, a curved section contiguous with the first straight section, and a second straight section contiguous with the curved section and having a portion parallel to the first straight section to provide the burner with a U-shaped configuration. The curved portion has an inner side and an outer side such that the outer side has a larger radius of curvature than the inner side. The inner side of the curved portion preferably lacks apertures, and the outer side of the curved portion preferably includes apertures, such that the only exit apertures for gas being directed from the burner is through the apertures in the outer side. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090283091 | Char Broiler Grate Assembly - A grate assembly that attaches to a range is provided. The grate assembly includes first and second cantilevered supports that receive at least one grate thereupon. The first and second supports are attached to a base that includes openings sized to receive bolts disposed on the range. When the grate assembly is installed, generally on the rear wall of the range, the openings receive the bolts and orient the grate assembly in a horizontal position at a first position above a burner in the fire box of the range. The grate assembly can be raised or lowered to a second position closer or further from the burner if less or more intense heating or cooking is desired. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090314278 | Barbecue Grill with Sear Section - Various embodiments of a gas valve and a sear-zone gas burner are described and claimed herein. One embodiment described herein relates to a control valve for regulating the flow of gas to a burner tube for a barbecue grill, wherein the control valve includes multiple flow settings, including a sear setting. At the sear setting, the valve is capable of providing additional gas flow to the gas burner to provide the intense heat needed to sear food. At the remaining settings, the valve is capable of providing an appropriate amount of gas flow for conventional cooking of food. Another embodiment of the gas valve is adapted to reduce the rotational offset between the off position and the maximum flow position as compared to the valves of the prior art. In that embodiment, the angular offset between the off position and the maximum flow position is approximately 45°. Another embodiment described herein relates to a burner tube configuration comprising a plurality of standard burner tubes and at least one supplementary sear-zone burner tube which is operable independently from the standard burner tubes. The sear-zone burner tube supplements the heat generated by the adjacent standard burner tubes to supply the intense heat needed to sear food. When the sear-zone burner tube is off, the portion of the cooking surface above the sear-zone burner tube can be used for conventional cooking of food. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100282239 | COMMERCIAL CHARBROILER WITH INTEGRATED CATALYTIC HOOD - A cooking appliance having a cooking surface, a housing enclosing a heating source for heating the cooking surface disposed beneath the cooking surface, and a vertically movable cooking fume hood connected with the housing and having a cooking fume exhaust opening proximate a top of the hood. The cooking surface may be a grid-type cooking surface or a griddle-type cooking surface or a combination thereof. The heating source preferably is a gaseous fuel-fired burner. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110283992 | Cooking apparatus with pivoting shelf and hidden griddle - A cooking apparatus is provides, and the apparatus comprising: a firebowl having a peripheral edge, a bottomside, a topside opening and at least one aperture; at least one grill situated over the topside opening of the firebowl; at least one shelf having a topside surface and an underside designed to receive a griddle, and the shelves having a protrusion designed to fit and pivotally rotate within the apertures of the firebowl allowing each of the shelves to be rotated in a first position situated over the grill and a second position away from the grill, the aperture of the firebowl is situated adjacent a portion of the peripheral edge of the firebowl; and at least one griddle designed to be received within the underside of the shelf during a storage position, and the griddle may be placed upon a topside surface of the grill during a usage position. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110297140 | HEATED COMPRESSED AIR BROILER SYSTEM - An oven and broiler for cooking foods using convection and radiant heat, including a housing defining a cooking chamber with an inlet for introducing uncooked foods into the cooking chamber, an outlet for discharging cooked foods and a conveyor for conveying food product from the inlet to the outlet, an array of heating elements, and a compressed air injection system for providing a bank of moving air over the food product during the early stages of cooking so as to break up the blanket of cold air over the food product. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20130239945 | DUAL FUNCTION AIR CHANNEL FOR GAS BURNER - A gas oven includes an oven cavity, an upper gas burner disposed within the oven cavity, a venturi assembly coupled to the upper gas burner, a lower gas burner disposed within a lower burner combustion chamber. The channel member is communicatively coupled between the lower burner combustion chamber and the venturi assembly for the upper gas burner to provide an airflow path therebetween. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140144424 | BURNER ASSEMBLY - A burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The burner assembly includes a gas burner and a flame spreader. The flame spreader defines a slot or a series of apertures that is substantially parallel to the gas burner. The slot or series of apertures can decrease a thickness of a boundary layer positioned adjacent the flame spreader or increase a velocity or a temperature or both of the boundary layer. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140196712 | OVEN APPLIANCE AND A GAS BURNER ASSEMBLY FOR THE SAME - A gas burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The gas burner assembly includes a pair of burner tubes. A runner tube extends between and can fluidly connect the burner tubes of the pair of burner tubes. The runner tube can assist with carrying flames between the burner tubes of the pair of burner tubes. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140196713 | GAS BURNER ASSEMBLY FOR AN OVEN APPLIANCE - A gas burner assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The gas burner assembly includes a pair of burner tubes and a runner tube that extends between the pair of burner tubes. The gas burner assembly also includes features for obstructing a flow of gaseous fuel within the pair of burner tubes and/or directing gaseous fuel from the pair of burner tubes into the runner tube. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140261386 | BROIL BURNER OF A HOUSEHOLD COOKING APPLIANCE - A broil burner and a household cooking appliance having a broil burner are provided in which the household appliance includes a housing having an oven cavity and a broil burner in the oven cavity, wherein the broil burner includes a combustion surface with a plurality of ports for permitting a gas/air mixture to permeate through the combustion surface, wherein an area of the plurality of the ports is blocked or plugged to prevent the gas/air mixture from permeating through the combustion surface in the area. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140290642 | OVEN BROIL BURNER - Provided is a broil burner including a generally-tubular gas conduit configured to extend between a rearward region of an oven cavity and a forward region of the oven cavity. The gas conduit includes an inlet that cooperates with a gas source to convey a combustible gas from the gas source to the gas conduit, and a plurality of apertures through which the combustible gas exits the gas conduit to be combusted. A reflector is provided, and extends between opposing segments of the gas conduit to reflect heat generated by combustion of the combustible gas in a downward direction, generally toward a central region of the oven cavity. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150013663 | UNIVERSAL CROSSOVER CHANNEL FOR GAS GRILLS - A universal crossover channel that is adapted for use in a wide array of grills. The universal crossover includes a telescopic slide feature that allows it to be extended or shortened and brackets that can be moved both vertically and horizontally to adjust the positioning of the universal crossover channel within the grill's firebox. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150101592 | DOUBLE OVEN APPLIANCE - Double oven appliances are provided. In one embodiment, a double oven appliance includes a cabinet that extends between a top portion and a bottom portion along a vertical direction, an upper cooking chamber defined adjacent the top portion of the cabinet, the upper cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction, and a lower cooking chamber defined adjacent the bottom portion of the cabinet, the lower cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction. The double oven appliance further includes a baking gas burner disposed adjacent the bottom wall of the upper cooking chamber and configured to heat the upper cooking chamber, at least a portion of the baking gas burner spaced from a center point of the upper cooking chamber along a lateral direction. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150101593 | BROIL BAFFLE FOR AN OVEN - A broil baffle for an oven may be provided. The oven may include a broil burner configured to distribute heat. The baffle may be positioned such that the broil burner distributes heat toward the baffle. The baffle may include a plurality of dimples configured to disperse infrared radiation from the distributed heat in multiple directions away from the baffle toward a broiling surface of the oven. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160178214 | WAIST-HIGH BROILER FOR OFF-GRID PROPANE GAS RANGE APPLIANCE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20090025707 | Roasting apparatus - A cooking system having an oven including an interior heating space within an enclosure formed by a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, a right side wall and a door for accessing the interior heating space wherein the oven further includes a radiant burner assembly adjacent the top wall and the oven further including a drawer assembly located adjacent the bottom wall and having a series of rollers for supporting a food product during operation of the oven. The drawer assembly includes a motor operatively connected thereto for causing the series of rollers to rotate, whereby the food product can be rotated on said rollers during operation of the oven. | 01-29-2009 |
