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US 4,902,316 AGranted
Oven including a ventless exhaust system
AssigneeGiles Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsWilliam O. Giles, Sr., William T. McNeal, Ted W. Giles
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Abstract
Apparatus for cooking food in a convention oven having a conveyor includes a ventless exhaust system in which a fan pulls heated air through a filter system including an aluminum filter, an electrostatic precipitator and a charcoal filter. Cleaned air may be recirculated within the building space in which the oven is located.
Claims10
Apparatus for cooking food comprising:
- oven means for baking food, said oven means comprising conveyor means for moving food through the oven means;
- hood means comprising an opening for receiving fumes from the oven means;
- filter means for receiving and cleaning substantially all the fumes entering the hood means from the oven means, said filter means comprising electrostatic precipitator means for removing particulates from the fumes passing therethrough;
- fan means for moving said fumes through the filter means and for recirculating cleaned, filtered air having less the 0.1 gram/cubic foot impurities into interior room space.
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Apparatus for cooking food comprising:
- oven means for baking food;
- conveyor means for moving food through the oven means;
- hood means comprising an opening for receiving fumes from the oven means;
- filter means for receiving and cleaning substantially all the fumes entering the hood means from the oven means, said filter means comprising condensing filter means transverse to the direction of air flow having a width substantially the same as the width of said opening and positioned at an angle between about 40.degree. and 70.degree. to the horizontal, and electrostatic precipitator means for removing particulates from said fumes;
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- fan means for moving said fumes through the filter means and recirculating cleaned, filtered air having less than 0.1 gram/cubic foot impurities into interior room space;
- hood means including an opening for receiving heated air and fumes from a conveyor oven;
- filter means within the hood means for receiving and cleaning the fumes entering the hood means, said filter means comprising electrostatic precipitator means for removing particulates from the fumes passing threthrough;
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- fan means within the hood means for moving said fumes through the filter means and for recirculating clean, filtered air having less than 0.1 gram per cubic foot impurities into interior room space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.