US 11,980,321 B2
Cooking appliance with cooked food holding apparatus
Jonathan Sammon, Oak Park, IL (US); Benjamin Slotarski, Palatine, IL (US); Christian Braun, Lake Forest, IL (US); Leonard Zelek, Chicago, IL (US); and Steven Shei, Fort Wayne, IN (US)
Assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed by Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/083,520.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/930,882, filed on Nov. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/928,616, filed on Oct. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0127898 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 37/04 (2006.01); A47J 36/24 (2006.01); A47J 36/32 (2006.01); A47J 36/36 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/045 (2013.01) [A47J 36/24 (2013.01); A47J 36/32 (2013.01); A47J 36/36 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heat transfer system for cooking a food product comprising:
an enclosure comprising a food product inlet, a food product outlet, and a plurality of walls;
at least one conveyor extending into the enclosure from the food product inlet;
a plurality of heat sources arranged about the at least one conveyor, the plurality of heat sources operate to output heat towards the at least one conveyor;
a discharge ramp extending below the at least one conveyor; and
a warming assembly positioned within the enclosure below the at least one conveyor, the warming assembly defining a controlled environment, the warming assembly defining a vertical extent of the food product outlet to less than or equal to a vertical extent of the controlled environment the warming assembly configured to removably receive at least one pan through the food product outlet into the controlled environment at a position below the discharge ramp, the at least one pan configured to receive cooked food product off of the discharge ramp and store cooked food product, wherein the pan and cooked food product are removable from the warming assembly through the food product outlet;
wherein the at least one conveyor is a first conveyor of a plurality of conveyors also comprising a second conveyor, the discharge ramp is a first discharge ramp of a plurality of discharge ramps also comprising a second discharge ramp, and the at least one pan is a first pan of a plurality of pans also comprising a second pan.