Patents by Inventor Dale L. Price

Dale L. Price 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).

  • Patent number: 9303879
    Abstract: A jet plate for directing a flow of air in a cooking chamber of an oven may include a body and a plurality of air delivery orifices. The body may be configured to be disposed along a sidewall of the cooking chamber proximate to a rack or pan support. The air delivery orifices may pass through the body. The air delivery orifices may be disposed to extend transversely across the body and may be distributed along a longitudinal length of the body such that a density of air delivery orifices proximate to one portion of the jet plate is higher than a density of air delivery orifices at another portion of the jet plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Dale L. Price, Eric A. Soller, Kenneth A. Gratz
  • Publication number: 20130306052
    Abstract: A jet plate for directing a flow of air in a cooking chamber of an oven may include a body and a plurality of air delivery orifices. The body may be configured to be disposed along a sidewall of the cooking chamber proximate to a rack or pan support. The air delivery orifices may pass through the body. The air delivery orifices may be disposed to extend transversely across the body and may be distributed along a longitudinal length of the body such that a density of air delivery orifices proximate to one portion of the jet plate is higher than a density of air delivery orifices at another portion of the jet plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Dale L. Price, Eric A. Soller, Kenneth A. Gratz
  • Publication number: 20130228568
    Abstract: An oven may include a radio frequency (RF) source, a cooking chamber into which RF energy is providable via the RF source, and a door that is configured to hingedly operate to alternately allow access to the cooking chamber and close the cooking chamber for cooking The door may include a choke assembly disposed to seal a region between the door and a cooking chamber from RF leakage responsive to closure of the door. The choke assembly may include a plurality of tuned chokes, each of which is configured to shield relative to a different predefined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Trieu V. Huynh, Dale L. Price, Kenneth A. Gratz