Patent ID: 9134036
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
1. A method for containing effluent from one or more ovens, each of the one or more ovens having a door hinged to the oven on a hinge side of the oven, the door extending along non-hinge sides of the oven, the method comprising: positioning the one or more ovens in a cabinet and surrounding the one or more ovens with a cabinet suction zone generated by a continuous space in the cabinet that opens, at oven face inlets, toward a forward face of the cabinet coinciding with a forward face of the one or more ovens; positioning a forward overhanging hood portion and creating a perimeter suction zone along a perimeter of the forward overhanging hood portion; the forward overhanging hood portion having a depth of at least 12 inches and the perimeter suction zone having forward and side aspects; the forward overhanging hood portion being contiguous and connected to the cabinet and the perimeter and cabinet suction zones being created by a negative pressure in the continuous space in communication between the forward overhanging hood portion and the cabinet; the continuous space being in communication with an exhaust connection connected to an exhaust fan to generate the negative pressure; the oven face inlets defining at least one side inlet and a top inlet immediately adjacent to each of the one or more ovens, each of the side and top oven face inlets being disposed on one of the non-hinge sides of the one or more ovens and contiguous with the one of the non-hinge sides along part of a length of the one of the non-hinge sides and contiguous with the door of the one or more ovens along part of a length of the door; collecting fumes emitted by opening the door of the one or more ovens through the oven face inlets and the perimeter suction zone and exhausting them through the exhaust connection.