The Garland Group

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Gas Research Institute

Garland Commercial Industries, LLC

Malcolm Reay

Douglas Scott Jones

David H McFadden

Ronald J Forni

David W Harter

James Timothy Cole

Donald E Fritzsche

Ryan J Stephens

Jerry Sank

William J Day, Jr

A convection oven with laminar airflow and/or moisture injection. A radial airflow fan is used to provide a circulating airflow that is substantially even and substantially turbulence free. The circulating airflow is provided to an oven chamber via a plurality of egress ports that rim a divider wall disposed between the oven chamber and a fan chamber. The airflow interleaves with a plurality of pans in the oven chamber to provide a laminar airflow. Moisture is injected into the circulating airflow either upstream of the fan or by flashing water onto the hot blades of the fan from either the low pressure side or the high pressure side of the fan.

Convection oven with laminar airflow and method

A convection oven having multiple airflow patterns within a cooking chamber during a baking cycle. In one embodiment, at least one reversible blower wheel rotatable at varying speeds produces separate airflow states to create multiple airflow patterns within the cooking chamber during a baking cycle. In another preferred embodiment, at least one adjustable airflow control surface mounted within the cooking chamber creates multiple airflow patterns within the cooking chamber during the baking cycle.

Convection oven having multiple airflow patterns

A cooking appliance for grilling food products has a griddle plate and a heating assembly that contains a non-contact infrared heating element to achieve uniform plate temperatures, fast initial warming times and fast recovery times. The heating element is situated in a cavity formed by thermal insulating material in the assembly. When the assembly is secured to the griddle plate, there is a space between the heater element and the griddle plate to allow infrared radiation heat transfer to heat the griddle plate. The insulating material has a relatively high insulating factor so as to minimize heat loss and reduce energy usage.

Griddle plate with infrared heating element

A convection oven having a high pressure duct distribution system to produce airflow within a cooking chamber of the convection oven. The high pressure airflow is easily tuned to produce a precise airflow pattern within the cooking chamber by opening and/or closing individual nozzles which extend from a duct of the duct distribution system into the cooling chamber.

High pressure airflow and duct distribution system for a convection oven

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