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US 2007/0175885 A1Published application
Modular steam oven construction method and related double cavity steam oven assembly
OwnerDavid Brower, Richard Chitwood +8inventors
InventorsDavid Brower, Richard Chitwood, Alva Clark, Lowell Doss, Jeffrey Frock, Larry Lyons, John Pleiman, Daniel Puterbaugh, Michael Reckner, Atul Saksena
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Abstract
A steam oven construction and method of assembly utilizing a modular cavity unit is described.
Claims23
A method of manufacturing and filling orders for a series of single and double cavity steam ovens, each oven comprising at least one modular cavity unit comprising,
- a substantially box-shaped cooking cavity defined by left, right, top, bottom and rear walls and a front access opening, a front panel adjacent the front access opening and having one or more control panel openings located to one side of the opening, the modular cavity unit having an upper stacking feature and a lower stacking feature,
- the method comprising the steps of
- (a) building a plurality of modular cavity units,
- (b) if filling an order for a single cavity oven,
- (1) selecting one modular cavity unit and with respect to such modular cavity unit:
- (i) placing a top oven panel above the insulation adjacent the top cavity wall;
- (ii) placing single cavity height left and right oven side panels on left and right sides of the modular cavity unit;
- (2) shipping the single cavity oven subsequent to step (b)(1);
- (c) if filling an order for a double cavity oven,
- (1) placing a first modular cavity unit atop a second modular cavity unit such that the lower stacking feature of the first modular cavity unit interacts with the upper stacking feature of the second modular cavity unit;
- (2) placing a top oven panel above the insulation adjacent the top cavity wall of the first modular cavity unit;
- (3) placing double cavity height left and right oven side panels on left and right sides of the stacked first and second modular cavity units;
- (4) shipping the double cavity oven subsequent to steps (c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(3).
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A double cavity steam oven assembly, comprising:
- a first cavity unit including a cooking cavity defined by left, right, top, bottom and rear walls and a front access opening, a front panel adjacent the front access opening and having one or more controls thereon, the first cavity unit including a lower stacking feature;
- a second cavity unit including a cooking cavity defined by left, right, top, bottom and rear walls and a front access opening, a front panel adjacent the front access opening and having one or more controls thereon, the second cavity unit including an upper stacking feature, the first cavity unit stacked atop the second cavity unit with the lower stacking feature of the first cavity unit aligned with and engaging the upper stacking feature of the second cavity unit;
- a steam generator plumbed to deliver steam to both the first cooking cavity and the second cooking cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.