Patents by Inventor Samuel L. Woehler

Samuel L. Woehler 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).

  • OVEN EXHAUST FAN SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20100273121
    Abstract: An oven apparatus has an oven enclosure with a heating zone and has two fans that remove air from the heating zone during purging and during normal operations. One of the two fans, called the exhaust fan, is a fixed speed fan in some embodiments. The second fan is a variable speed fan in some embodiments. The oven apparatus may have a vestibule at a conveyor opening with a fan dedicated to exhausting the vestibule. The oven apparatus may have an air seal between the vestibule and a heating zone of an oven chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: James M. Gleason, Thomas S. Neeley, Samuel L. Woehler