Oven cleaning process
OwnerAlan D. Briteinventor
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Abstract
An exothermic reaction is produced by the addition of water to a mixture of calcium oxide, an ammonium salt and pine oil. The mixture is included within a disposable container having means therein for receiving the water and controlling the progress thereof to the mixture. After the water is added to the container, the container is enclosed within an oven and the resulting exothermic reaction and the simultaneous liberation of ammonia from the ammonium salt causes ammonia gas, steam, and pine oil to exit from the container depositing on the oven walls ammonium hydroxide and the pine oil which exert a cleaning, dissolving, and saponifying action on grease and other foreign matter.
Claims7
A method for cleaning ovens and the like comprising the steps of adding water to a container of a substantially uniform mixture of calcium oxide and ammonium salt, permitting a small amount of the water to initially combine with the mixture to initiate an exothermic reaction, enclosing said container in an oven, combining the rest of the water with the mixture quickly but by a controlled rate to complete the reaction and generate steam and ammonia gas from the container to be condensed on the inner surfaces of said oven and removing said condensate from said oven surfaces, said mixture of calcium oxide having a sufficiently fine particle size whereby mix generation of steam and ammonia gas from the container occurs within a time period of about between 3-7 minutes.
A method for cleaning ovens and the like comprising the steps of adding water to a container of substantially uniform mixture of calcium oxide in fine particle size, pine oil and ammonium salt, permitting a small amount of the water to initially combine with the mixture to initiate an exothermic reaction, enclosing said container in an oven, combining the rest of the water with the mixture quickly but by a controlled rate to complete the reaction and generate steam and ammonia gas from the container to be condensed on the inner surfaces of said oven and removing said condensate from said oven surfaces, said mixture of calcium oxide having a sufficiently fine particle size whereby mix generation of steam and ammonia gas from the container occurs within a time period of about between 3-7 minutes.
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