Matthew Richard Baker

US Patent:

7997189, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Sep 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/849854

Inventors:

Matthew J. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Patrick D. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Mohsen Sarfehjoo - Franklin TN, US

Assignee:

Nieco Corporation - Windsor CA

International Classification:

F24C 15/32
F23D 14/12
A47J 37/00

US Classification:

99386, 99467, 126 21 A, 126 41 R

Abstract:

An oven and broiler for cooking foods using convection and radiant heat, including a housing defining a cooking chamber with an inlet for introducing uncooked foods into the cooking chamber, an outlet for discharging cooked foods and a conveyor for conveying food product from the inlet to the outlet, an array of heating elements, and a compressed air injection system for providing a bank of moving air over the food product during the early stages of cooking so as to break up the blanket of cold air over the food product.

US Patent:

8076614, Dec 13, 2011

Filed:

Mar 24, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/410284

Inventors:

Edward D. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Matthew J. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Patrick D. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Mohsen Sarfehjoo - Franklin TN, US
Erik Magner - Fort Wayne IN, US

Assignee:

Nieco Corporation - Windsor CA

International Classification:

F27B 9/12
F27B 9/36

US Classification:

219388, 219400, 219411, 219601, 99443 C

Abstract:

A cooking system for cooking foods using a combination of magnetic induction, convection and radiant heat, including a magnetic induction stage proximate the inlet end of a cooking chamber in which food is cooked by convention and radiant heating. A conveyor system, either continuous or configured in stages, passes food from the magnetic induction heating stage to and through the radiant and convention heating stages.

US Patent:

8272320, Sep 25, 2012

Filed:

Nov 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/954433

Inventors:

Edward Baker - Windsor CA, US
Matthew Baker - Windsor CA, US
Patrick Baker - Windsor CA, US
Erik Magner - Fort Wayne IN, US

Assignee:

Nieco Corporation - Windsor CA

International Classification:

A47J 37/04
A47J 37/06

US Classification:

99401, 99447, 99385, 126 15 R, 126 41 R

Abstract:

A cooking apparatus having a waste heat recovery system for incorporation into broilers, ovens, and toasters, the apparatus including a cooking chamber having a cooking platform, at least one air plenum disposed in the upper portion of the cooking chamber and having a plurality of air outlets for producing a focused forced air, a low pressure air source connected to the air plenums, a heating element or burner disposed under each of said air plenums, such that said curtain of focused forced air guides and directs heat from said heating element toward food product being cooked, and heat exchange pipes disposed between at least two of said air plenums. Radiant heat generated from the heating elements or burners rises in the cooking chamber and is retained between the air plenums to maximize heat transfer from the heated air to the heat transfer pipes, and thus to the low pressure air in the low pressure air system. The recycled heat enhances cooking.

US Patent:

20110297140, Dec 8, 2011

Filed:

Aug 15, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/210181

Inventors:

Matthew J. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Patrick D. Baker - Windsor CA, US
Mohsen Sarfehjoo - Franklin TN, US

Assignee:

NIECO CORPORATION - Windsor CA

International Classification:

F24C 3/08

US Classification:

126 41 R

Abstract:

An oven and broiler for cooking foods using convection and radiant heat, including a housing defining a cooking chamber with an inlet for introducing uncooked foods into the cooking chamber, an outlet for discharging cooked foods and a conveyor for conveying food product from the inlet to the outlet, an array of heating elements, and a compressed air injection system for providing a bank of moving air over the food product during the early stages of cooking so as to break up the blanket of cold air over the food product.