Patents by Inventor Carol S. Nealley

Carol S. Nealley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Impinging air ovens having high mass flow orifices
    Patent number: 9089142
    Abstract: An air dispensing duct that can be used in an oven to heat or cook food products passing through the oven on a conveyor. The air dispensing ducts comprise a cover plate and at least one columnating plate, and a plurality of orifices disposed on the cover plate and the columnating plate. The orifices are larger than those of the prior art, which advantageously, and counterintuitively, provides for faster cooking of the food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: LINCOLN FOODSERVICE PRODUCTS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Henke, Carol S. Nealley
  • High speed cooking oven having an air impingement heater with an improved orifice configuration
    Patent number: 6933473
    Abstract: An air impingement oven having a conveyor belt assembly for moving food through a heat treatment passage. The air impingement oven has a fan, a supply duct, a plenum and a number of jet fingers being disposed above the conveyor belt assembly. The jet fingers have a base portion having a number of orifices for directing the impingement air onto the food. The orifices have an improved configuration. The improved configuration intensifies the airflow on the food to penetrate heat into the food surface thereby improving heat transfer. The improved configuration reduces a cooking time of the food in the air impingement oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Henke, Carol S. Nealley
  • High speed cooking oven having an air impingement heater with an improved orifice configuration
    Publication number: 20040262286
    Abstract: An air impingement oven having a conveyor belt assembly for moving food through a heat treatment passage. The air impingement oven has a fan, a supply duct, a plenum and a number of jet fingers being disposed above the conveyor belt assembly. The jet fingers have a base portion having a number of orifices for directing the impingement air onto the food. The orifices have an improved configuration. The improved configuration intensifies the airflow on the food to penetrate heat into the food surface thereby improving heat transfer. The improved configuration reduces a cooking time of the food in the air impingement oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: LINCOLN FOODSERVICE PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Henke, Carol S. Nealley
  • Oven with radiant panel
    Patent number: 4781169
    Abstract: A food preparation oven comprising a plurality of radiant panel ducts which include apertures for directing streams of heated air toward a food product within the heating chamber. The radiant panels are made of highly thermal conductive aluminum and the outer surfaces thereof facing the food product are of a black color so as to radiate infrared energy toward the food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Lincoln Foodservice Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Henke, Carol S. Nealley, Effie J. Lee, Daniel S. Kaminski