Safety auditing system
AssigneeFlynn Burner Corporation
InventorSimon Walker
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Abstract
A safety auditor is designed to perform opening and closing of every safety switch that is used in an industrial bakery oven. Every pressure sensor can be tested for on and off states. The low gas pressure switch can be vented and the high gas pressure switch pressurized. All thermocouples associated with the high temperature circuits are tripped. Fans are started and stopped over a communications signal or via the hard-wired interface as required to generate the safety testing. Once the safety testing is complete, the results along with time, date, name of tester, pass or fail will be printed out via a small kiosk printer. This ticket can then be filed in an office. As the operation is easy to do and requires little effort, it is much more likely to be performed and therefore safer for the host bakery.
Claims12
A safety auditing system comprising:
- an oven, the oven comprising:
- an oven chamber;
- an oven chamber inlet;
- an oven chamber outlet;
- and
- a plurality of oven chamber zones through which product passes from the inlet to the outlet;
- at least one zone baking device within each one of the plurality of chamber zones, wherein:
- all of the zone baking devices are electronically connected to a programmable master control panel, wherein the master control panel further comprises a user interface;
- and
- each zone baking device is electronically or electromechanically actuated in accordance with a preprogrammed scheme by the master control panel;
- an array of zone safety devices, wherein
- each zone safety device in the array of zone safety devices is electronically connected to the master control panel;
- and
- each zone safety device is electronically or electromechanically actuated by the master control panel;
- a safety auditor connected to the zone safety devices via the master control panel for safety testing the zone baking devices via the zone safety devices, the safety auditor being programmable and having a user interface and further allowing a user to generate a safety test report via a printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.