Patents by Inventor Olivier SERGENT

Olivier SERGENT 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).

  • Publication number: 20220322682
    Abstract: The support tray device for transporting bakery, patisserie, viennoiserie or similar products through at least one processing unit of an installation used for producing such products includes a frame on which at least one sheet of metallic material is fixed. The sheet includes an expanded-metal sheet having micromeshes forming a metal lattice. The expanded-metal sheet is obtained by cutting and stretching a metal sheet. The micromeshes have passage openings between 130 and 750 ?m. As a result of the micromeshes, the expanded metal sheet has a voids surface area representing between 17 and 60% of the total surface area of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jordan OUDOT, Olivier SERGENT
  • Patent number: 11278030
    Abstract: The cooking module for a linear tunnel oven for bakery products includes a cooking chamber having a hearth, in the form of a conveyor belt, that is mobile and permeable to a gaseous heat-transfer fluid, a roof, and a heating device in the hearth and on the roof to cook the products. The heating device in the hearth includes a plurality of orifices for blowing the fluid. The belt is mobile above a sliding surface having openings for the fluid to pass through, and is mobile between two positions, a convection position where the openings coincide with the orifices to let the fluid pass through, and a second position known as a radiation position, where openings are offset from these orifices, the surface forming a screen for the fluid blown through the orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MECATHERM
    Inventor: Olivier Sergent
  • Patent number: 11140905
    Abstract: The cooking module for bakery products includes a cooking enclosure having an arched roof and a sole on which the products rest. The module is equipped at least with a heating mechanism in the roof. The heating mechanism includes a plenum in which a heat-transfer fluid circulates from an inlet and at least one outlet. The plenum includes a plurality of blowing orifices for blowing fluid into the enclosure. The module includes a device for blanking off the orifices, being movable between a position of blanking of the orifices and a position of opening same. There is a means for extracting the heat-transfer fluid passing through the plenum and/or blown into the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MECATHERM
    Inventor: Olivier Sergent
  • Patent number: 10696492
    Abstract: The device for transporting support plates for bakery products includes supporting angle brackets on which rest the edges of plates, and a driving device cooperative with the brackets on both sides of a vertical median plane. The driving device includes at least one chain forming a close-loop circuit so as to define an ascending column and a descending column of supporting means and, at least one connecting support hinged about a horizontal axis of at least one angle bracket. There is a device for holding and guiding the angle brackets in a horizontal plane in a transfer portion from the ascending column to the descending column and a conveyer extending at least under the ascending and descending columns between the driving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mecatherm
    Inventors: Olivier Sergent, Damien Pineau
  • Publication number: 20190382209
    Abstract: The device for transporting support plates for bakery products includes supporting angle brackets on which rest the edges of plates, and a driving device cooperative with the brackets on both sides of a vertical median plane. The driving device includes at least one chain forming a close-loop circuit so as to define an ascending column and a descending column of supporting means and, at least one connecting support hinged about a horizontal axis of at least one angle bracket. There is a device for holding and guiding the angle brackets in a horizontal plane in a transfer portion from the ascending column to the descending column and a conveyer extending at least under the ascending and descending columns between the driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Olivier SERGENT, Damien PINEAU
  • Publication number: 20190246649
    Abstract: The cooking module for bakery products includes a cooking enclosure having an arched roof and a sole on which the products rest. The module is equipped at least with a heating mechanism in the roof. The heating mechanism includes a plenum in which a heat-transfer fluid circulates from an inlet and at least one outlet. The plenum includes a plurality of blowing orifices for blowing fluid into the enclosure. The module includes a device for blanking off the orifices, being movable between a position of blanking of the orifices and a position of opening same. There is a means for extracting the heat-transfer fluid passing through the plenum and/or blown into the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: MECATHERM
    Inventor: Olivier SERGENT
  • Publication number: 20190239516
    Abstract: The cooking module for a linear tunnel oven for bakery products includes a cooking chamber having a hearth, in the form of a conveyor belt, that is mobile and permeable to a gaseous heat-transfer fluid, a roof, and a heating device in the hearth and on the roof to cook the products. The heating device in the hearth includes a plurality of orifices for blowing the fluid. The belt is mobile above a sliding surface having openings for the fluid to pass through, and is mobile between two positions, a convection position where the openings coincide with the orifices to let the fluid pass through, and a second position known as a radiation position, where openings are offset from these orifices, the surface forming a screen for the fluid blown through the orifices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Olivier SERGENT