Patents by Inventor Massimo Cappello

Massimo Cappello 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: 5556566
    Abstract: A microwave oven is combined with gas heating, particularly for cooking foods for groups. The oven includes a cooking chamber, one or more magnetrons for the generation of microwaves, and several hollow heating elements arranged internally or on the walls of this chamber. The oven may also be provided with a conduit for the introduction of steam from an external boiler, in which products of the combustion of inflammable gases pass through these heating elements (5), and their interiors are not in communication with the interior of the chamber. These heating elements consist of essentially vertical tubes that at least partially cross this cooking chamber. The upper ends (11) of the gas exhausts of these heating elements (5) are closed by a box element (12), which is hermetically sealed to microwaves against the upper surface of the top (9) and has at least one hole (14). A corresponding second tube (15) is attached to edges of the hole and defines a microwave trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Zanussi Grandi Impianti S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Cappello, Claudio Marchesin
  • Patent number: 5517980
    Abstract: A steam-operated food cooking oven having a cooking cavity (2), a motor-driven fan (3) located at a rear side of the cooking cavity, and a partition wall (4) to distribute the flow of air generated by the fan into the cooking cavity. A back-chamber (5) accommodates the fan and is delimited on its front side by the partition wall (4) and, on its rear side, by the rear wall (6) of the oven. A tube (9) extends into the back chamber and terminates in a nozzle (10) that is received in an interstice between the rear wall and the fan. An appropriate temperature sensor (11), which is connected to a thermostat device (12), is inserted in the tube (9). A perforated disk is mounted over a motor shaft within the fan and allows air and steam within the back chamber to flow into the interstice and the nozzle therein to thereby communicate with the tube and temperature sensor therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Zanussi Grandi Impianti S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Cappello, Bruno Levi
  • Patent number: 5447145
    Abstract: A food cooking oven having a vertically hinged access door 1 provided with an exterior glazing 2, and an inner door 3 arranged on the inner face of said door. The inner door is provided with a hinge 4 along the hinging edge of the access door 1 to the oven housing and is able to be turned with respect to the hinge to a position which is moved away and separated from said access door. The oven also includes a gutter 6 for collecting condensation water and other drippings. The gutter runs along the lower edge of the access door and is provided with a liquid shut-off means 7. A liquid collecting element 11 is arranged so as to protrude from the lower side 10 of the oven cavity opening perimeter, in a position lying underneath said liquid shut-off means, the latter being normally shut when the oven door is open, and adapted to close automatically when the door is being closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Zanussi Grandi Impianti S.P.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Cappello, Bruno Levi