Downdraft countertop cooking range
AssigneeRoper Corporation
InventorJoseph J. Cerola
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Abstract
A downdraft countertop cooking range having an improved ventilation system for removing smoke and cooking odors from the entire cooking panel area. The range has a modular cooking panel recessed substantially below the countertop for enhanced accessibility from the front of the range. Exhaust louvers spaced between the ends of the cooking panel and the top edge of the range frame, and of substantially equal depth to that of the cooking panel, assure an adequate flow of exhaust air over the cooking panel area.
Claims14
A downdraft range adapted for countertop mounting and comprising in combination:
- (a) a main top frame adapted to overlie a recess in a countertop and having an overlapping marginal edge portion suspending the range in said recess;
- (b) a cooking panel in said main top frame recessed substantially below said overlapping marginal edge portion;
- (c) an upstanding rear panel interposed between said cooking panel and said overlapping marginal edge portion of said top from;
- (d) a pair of outwardly diverging side panels extending from the level of said cooking panel to the level of said overlapping margimal edge portion of said top frame, each said side panel having a front-to-back depth substantially equal to the depth of said cooking panel;
- (e) a ventilating louver in each said upwardly diverging side panel having openings commencing at about the level of said cooking panel;
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- (f) means including a suction fan situated below said main top frame and communicating with said ventilating louvers to exhaust smoke and cooking odors from said cooking panel.
A downdraft range comprising in combination:
- (a) a main top frame having raised side and back panels;
- (b) a cooking panel in said main top frame recessed substantially below the top edges of said side and back panels;
- (c) said side panels being upwardly diverging from the level said cooking panel to the level of the top edges, each said side panel having a front-to-back depth substantially equal to the depth of said cooking panel;
- (d) a ventilating louver in each said upwardly diverging side panel having openings commencing at about the level of said cooking panel;
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- (e) means including a suction fan situated below said main top frame and communicating with said ventilating louvers to exhaust smoke and cooking odors from said cooking panel.
A downdraft range adapted for mounting in a cmountertop having a recess with a plurality of peripheral sides comprising in combination:
- (a) a main top frame having marginal edge portions for positioning in overlapping relation with respective of said peripheral sides of said recess for suspending said range in said recess;
- (b) a cooking panel in said main top frame recessed substantially below said marginal edge portions;
- (c) an upstanding rear panel interposed between said cooking panel and a rear marginal edge portion of said top frame;
- (d) a pair of upwardly diverging side panels interposed between said cooking panel and respective side marginal edge portions of the top frame, said side panels extending from the level of said cooking panel to the level of said side marginal edge portions of the top frame;
- (e) said side panels defining ventilating openings;
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- (f) means including a suction fan situated below said main top frame and communicating said said ventilating openings to exhaust smoke and cooking odors from said cooking panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.