Patent ID: 6318245
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
A cooking device comprising a cooking chamber separated from a blower chamber by an air baffle, ventilation means located in the blower chamber for circulating air between the cooking chamber and the blower chamber, an impact surface being arranged concentrically to the ventilation means in the blower chamber, a heating device being arranged concentrically with the impact surface in a flow shadow of the impact surface, catalyst means being disposed in the blower chamber concentrically around the heating device, said ventilation means drawing air including fat vapors, odor particles and/or hydrocarbons from the cooking chamber and directing them in a finely-atomized form onto the catalyst means, said catalyst means cleaning the air directed onto it while outputting energy, said ventilation means taking air cleaned by the catalyst means and heat energy released during cleaning and distributing it to the cooking chamber.