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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2007
Udo Baumann, Hamburg, DE;
Deny Longo, Pordenone, IT;
Michele Cadamuro, Treviso, IT;
Electrolux Professional SpA, Pordenone, IT;
Abstract
Food preparation apparatus including a top cooking surface, or cooktop, a front wall, a clear see-through wall located on the front side and extending above the top surface, a suction device adapted to take in fumes/odors or gases being generated at and released from the cooktop, the suction device including a forward inclined intake grille arranged between the cooktop and the vertical wall, the clear see-through wall being curved backwards, with the lower portion thereof extending almost vertically and then gradually curving backwards. A chamber collecting the gases being taken in is arranged below the grille and debouches into a vertical suction conduit, to which there is associated an appropriate suction fan, entering a prismatic filtering chamber provided with a filter in the form of a filtering partition arranged between two opposite sides of the chamber and lying orthogonally to the rear wall of the apparatus.