Abstract: A hood comprising a suction and/or filtration unit, to collect cooking fumes of a houshold cooker, complete and functionally independent from the hood housing, provided with means for simple and fast insertion and pull-out from the housing without the use of tools in a fully safe manner for the user.Said suction and/or filtration unit is provided with electric contacts firmly fastened to its structure, which upon insertion in the housing will be connected to a power take-off rigidly fastened inside the housing, so that the electric parts of the unit are live only when the unit is inserted in the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hood for the suction and/or the filtration of cooking smokes in a domestic kitchen, having means which allows one, in a simple and rapid way, to direct the air flow sucked from a cooking stove towards a preferred outlet, among a plurality of possible outlets being provided by the hood, and to simultaneously change the operation of the hood from a filtration mode to a suction mode.