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US 5,394,861 AGranted
Vapor-collecting hood especially for a commercial kitchen
AssigneeMaimer GmbH
InventorGert W. Stegmaier
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Abstract
A vapor-collecting hood for a commercial kitchen has downwardly open collecting vapor spaces formed by the grease separating cells which have intake openings adapted to be selectively blocked by shutters. All of the shutters are mounted upon a common shutter carrier and are displaceable therewith from positions in which the openings are unblocked into positions in which the openings are blocked.
Claims20
A vapor-collecting hood, especially for a commercial kitchen, comprising:
- a housing forming a downwardly open vapor-accumulating space;
- an exhaust duct formed in said housing;
- a plurality of grease-trapping cells arranged in a row in said housing and each having:
- an elongated intake opening communicating with said space and aligned with intake openings of adjacent cells,
- a grease filter connected with said intake opening of the respective grease-trapping cell, and
- an outlet downstream of the respective filter and communicating with said outlet duct;
- a shutter carrier common to all of said cells and mounted for movement in said housing generally transverse to said intake openings;
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- a respective shutter for each of said intake openings connected to said shutter carrier and displaceable thereby across the respective intake opening between an intake-opening-sealing blocking position and an unblocking position.
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