A modular flue adapter system and method is described to accommodate a conduit for exhaust between a firebox and a firebox flue, wherein the firebox is inserted into a firebox opening, by providing an offset distance and/or direction between the exhaust of the firebox and the firebox flue.

A modular flue adapter system and method is described to accommodate a conduit for exhaust between a firebox and a firebox flue, wherein the firebox is inserted into a firebox opening, by providing an offset distance and/or direction between the exhaust of the firebox and the firebox flue.

A grilling device includes an oven section having an outer wall with opposing side portions and an encircling body portion extending therebetween. The body portion has an access opening and the grilling device includes a lid that selectively covers the access opening by means of a handle attached thereto. The grilling device also includes opposing hinge elements connected to opposite sides of the lid and to the side portions of the outer wall, as opposed to the encircling body portion. In particular, the hinge elements are connected to respective rear areas of the side portions. Accordingly, the path of opening the lid has a different shape or curvature and thereby positions the handle substantially lower than if the hinge elements were connected to the body portion adjacent to the access opening. The opposing side portions have a substantially oval shape and the hinge elements have an elongated configuration.

A heating cooker includes a main casing, a heating chamber that is provided in the main casing and that is for heating an object to be heated, a door (3) that is provided on a front face side of the main casing and that opens and closes an opening of the heating chamber, and a dew receiving container (6) that is detachably attached onto an under front face side of the main casing. The main casing (1) has a front plate (60) that is provided around the opening of the heating chamber (2), a housing part (80) that is provided on underside of the front plate (60) so as to extend along a width of the front plate (60) in a left-right direction and that is recessed toward a rear face side relative to a lower-side front face of the front plate (60) so as to house a portion on the rear face side of the dew receiving container (6), and a drop inhibiting part (61) that is provided on a bottom end of the front plate (60) and that inhibits water droplets, having flowed down along a surface of the front plate (60), from traveling to a side of the housing part (80).

A heating cooker includes a main casing, a heating chamber that is provided in the main casing and that is for heating an object to be heated, a door (3) that is provided on a front face side of the main casing and that opens and closes an opening of the heating chamber, and a dew receiving container (6) that is detachably attached onto an under front face side of the main casing. The main casing (1) has a front plate (60) that is provided around the opening of the heating chamber (2), a housing part (80) that is provided on underside of the front plate (60) so as to extend along a width of the front plate (60) in a left-right direction and that is recessed toward a rear face side relative to a lower-side front face of the front plate (60) so as to house a portion on the rear face side of the dew receiving container (6), and a drop inhibiting part (61) that is provided on a bottom end of the front plate (60) and that inhibits water droplets, having flowed down along a surface of the front plate (60), from traveling to a side of the housing part (80).

A distributed, self-organizing environment conditioning system with adaptive and learning behaviors that provide localized and targeted climate conditioning such as, but not limited to, temperature and humidity control in indoor and outdoor settings and more particularly, to extensible networked multi-modal autonomous systems of heating units working together to efficiently target objects for selective environmental control.

A cooking appliance includes a metal body that defines a cooking cavity and includes a bottom wall that has an interior surface that partially defines the cooking cavity and an exterior surface opposite the interior surface. The interior surface defines a first centrally located depression, and the exterior surface defines a second centrally located depression that is opposite of and horizontally aligned with the first centrally located depression defined by the interior surface.

A cooking appliance includes a metal body that defines a cooking cavity and includes a bottom wall that has an interior surface that partially defines the cooking cavity and an exterior surface opposite the interior surface. The interior surface defines a first centrally located depression, and the exterior surface defines a second centrally located depression that is opposite of and horizontally aligned with the first centrally located depression defined by the interior surface.

The present invention may be embodied as a biofuel heating system comprising a controller for operating a fan based on a load operating parameter such that air flows along a flow path extending through a combustion chamber, through a burn-out port, through a burn-out chamber, through a heat exchange port, through a heat exchange chamber, and out of an exhaust port. A heat exchange system transfers heat energy from air flowing through the heat exchange chamber to a working fluid. The controller operates in a char mode based at least in part on the load operating parameter, and the biofuel remains within the combustion zone during the char mode.

A method of operating a cooktop appliance includes receiving an input at a user interface of the cooktop appliance and initiating a cooking operation of the cooktop appliance in response to the input. The method further includes determining, after initiating the cooking operation, whether a protected user is present at the cooktop appliance and an authorized user is absent from the cooktop appliance.