Loading patent…
AssigneeAngelo Po Grandi Cucine S.p.A.
InventorsFabio Segato, Luca Gemelli
Estimating the term…
An apparatus for cooking food includes an oven, including a cooking chamber in which the food can be cooked by dry hot air, steam or hot air and steam together, a support frame to which the oven is fixed, a collecting tank designed to collect the liquid produced in the cooking chamber during the cooking of food or delivered to the cooking chamber during a washing procedure of the oven, the collecting tank being associated with the support frame and being provided with an inlet opening that can be connected to a drain of the cooking chamber, the collecting tank being provided with level sensor means configured for detecting a plurality of levels reached by the liquid in the collecting tank. A method for managing an apparatus for cooking food, including an oven for cooking the foods, fixed to a support frame with which a collecting tank is associated that is designed to collect the liquid produced in the oven during the cooking of food or delivered to the oven during a washing procedure of the oven, includes detecting a plurality of different levels reached by the liquid in the collecting tank and communicating the reaching of the levels to a command-and-control device of the oven, one of the levels being a preset permissible maximum level that the liquid can reach in the collecting tank.
An apparatus for cooking food comprising an oven, including a cooking chamber in which the food can be cooked by dry hot air, steam or hot air and steam together, a support frame to which said oven is fixed, a collecting tank designed to collect the liquid produced in said cooking chamber during the cooking of food or delivered to said cooking chamber during a washing procedure of said oven, said collecting tank being associated with said support frame and being provided with an inlet opening that can be connected to a drain of said cooking chamber, wherein said collecting tank is provided with level sensor means configured for detecting a plurality of levels reached by said liquid in said collecting tank, wherein said inlet opening is connected to said discharge by a pipe provided with a connecting element configured for being inserted into said inlet opening, wherein said inlet opening is provided with a normally closed check valve, that can be opened by said connecting element when the latter is inserted into said inlet opening.
A method for managing an apparatus for cooking food, said apparatus comprising an oven for cooking said foods, fixed to a support frame with which a collecting tank is associated that is designed to collect the liquid produced in said oven during the cooking of food or delivered to said oven during a washing procedure of said oven, said method including detecting a plurality of different levels reached by said liquid in said collecting tank and communicating the reaching of said levels to a command-and-control device of the oven, one of said levels being a preset permissible maximum level that said liquid can reach in said collecting tank, wherein a first level of said plurality of levels, below said preset permissible maximum level, corresponds to a level of liquid that does not have to be exceeded for a first free volume to remain inside the collecting tank that is available to receive a first quantity of washing liquid used in a first washing procedure of the oven.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.