US 12,279,622 B2
Pan oiling devices, systems and methods of use
Adam Rick Oberheu, Delta, CO (US); Michael Rodger Hewitt, Aliquippa, PA (US); and Nicholas Ryan Anderson, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Assigned to Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Gurnee, IL (US)
Filed by Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Gurnee, IL (US)
Filed on May 30, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/678,083.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/508,011, filed on Jun. 14, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0415130 A1, Dec. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. A21B 3/16 (2006.01); B05B 12/00 (2018.01); B05B 12/08 (2006.01); B05B 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC A21B 3/16 (2013.01) [B05B 12/008 (2013.01); B05B 12/082 (2013.01); B05B 12/085 (2013.01); B05B 13/0221 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A baking pan oiling device, comprising:
a housing, the housing comprising a conveyor mechanism and an oil supply, the conveyor mechanism for conveying a plurality of baking pans through an interior of the housing during a pan oiling operation of the plurality of baking pans;
a nozzle fluidly coupled to the oil supply, the nozzle comprising a nozzle opening directed towards the conveyor mechanism, wherein the oil supply is configured to deliver oil to the nozzle intermittently during the pan oiling operation such that the nozzle intermittently sprays the oil onto the each of the plurality of baking pans;
a first sensor configured to generate signals corresponding to a sensed presence of movement of oil through the oil supply and to generate signals corresponding to a sensed absence of movement of oil through the oil supply during the pan oiling operation; and
a control unit communicatively coupled to the first sensor, wherein the control unit is configured to receive the sensor signals corresponding to the sensed presence of the movement of oil or the sensed absence of the movement of oil during the pan oiling operation,
wherein upon receiving the sensor signals corresponding to the sensed absence of the movement of oil during the pan operation, the control unit is configured to cease the pan oiling operation.