US 9,801,406 B2Granted

Food dehydrator

AssigneeTsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.

InventorsChungho Pan, Jiawei Li, Xiaorong Zhang, Youngshou Chen, Ping Lin

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Abstract

A food dehydrator includes a housing, a blower member, and a plurality of food trays. The housing has an air intake port, a rear chamber disposed downstream of the air intake port, and a front chamber which is disposed downstream of the rear chamber and which has a plurality of dehydration sub-chambers for the food trays to be removably and respectively disposed therein. The blower member is disposed upstream of the air intake port for introducing air into the rear chamber. Each of the food trays is configured to permit the introduced air, which flows through an internal port of a corresponding one of the dehydration sub-chambers, to pass therethrough and leave through an outlet port of the corresponding one of the dehydration sub-chambers.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A food dehydrator comprising:

a housing having
an air intake port,
a rear chamber disposed downstream of said air intake port and extending in an upright direction, and
a front chamber disposed forwardly of said rear chamber, and having a plurality of dehydration sub-chambers which are displaced from each other in the upright direction, each of said dehydration sub-chambers having an internal port disposed downstream of said rear chamber and an outlet port for exhaust to the atmosphere, said outlet port being opposite to said internal port in a longitudinal direction transverse to the upright direction, and being disposed downstream of said internal port;
a blower member disposed upstream of said air intake port for introducing air into said rear chamber;
and
a plurality of food trays each being removably disposed in a corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers, and each being configured to permit the introduced air, which flows through said internal port of the corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers, to pass therethrough and leave through said outlet port of the corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers.

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A food dehydrator comprising:

a housing having
an air intake port,
a rear chamber disposed downstream of said air intake port, and
a front chamber disposed forwardly of said rear chamber, and having a plurality of dehydration sub-chambers, each of said dehydration sub-chambers having an internal port disposed downstream of said rear chamber and an outlet port for exhaust to the atmosphere, said outlet port being opposite to said internal port, and being disposed downstream of said internal port;
a blower member disposed upstream of said air intake port for introducing air into said rear chamber;
and
a plurality of food trays each being removably disposed in a corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers, and each being configured to permit the introduced air, which flows through said internal port of the corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers, to pass therethrough and leave through said outlet port of the corresponding one of said dehydration sub-chambers, each of said food trays defining accommodation space and including a bottom wall which has a plurality of through holes in fluid communication with said accommodation space.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/175,823Filed 7 Jun 2016
Published: US 2016/0360773 A115 Dec 2016
Granted: 31 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A23B 2/90
Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general: by drying or kilning; Subsequent reconstitution
A23B 7/0205
Dehydrating; Subsequent reconstitution: by contact of the material with fluids, e.g. drying gas or extracting liquids
F26B 3/04
By convection, i.e. heat being conveyed from a heat source to the materials or objects to be dried by a gas or vapour, e.g. air: the gas or vapour…
F26B 9/066
In stationary drums or chambers: the products to be dried being disposed on one or more containers, which may have at least partly gas-previous…