Patents by Inventor Wayne T. Kemp

Wayne T. Kemp 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).

  • Self-clean oven
    Patent number: 4375213
    Abstract: A self-clean oven having means for passing cooling air over the heated walls of the oven and further having means for supplying combustion air by normal inspiration to the oven burners independently of the flow of cooling air, and having still further means for mixing hot combustion products exhausted from the interior of the oven with exhausted cooling air to prevent passage of excessively hot air into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Wayne T. Kemp, Domenick Saponara
  • Grate with adjustable vents
    Patent number: 4236503
    Abstract: A gas-fueled range having top burners and individual valves for controlling flow of fuel to the burners, each burner being covered by an inverted cup-shaped grate for supporting a utensil to be heated, the grate having vents for permitting exhaust of combustion flue products, and shutter devices operatively connected to the valve and movable therewith to regulate the effective size of the vents in accordance with variations in size of the burner flames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Wayne T. Kemp
  • Oven stack action control
    Patent number: 3951335
    Abstract: An oven having an air inlet opening in its lower region and an exhaust opening in its upper region, and at least one gas-fueled burner within the oven, one of the openings containing a baffle variably movable into and out of closing relation to the opening in response to heat-sensitive actuating means whereby control of stack action within the oven is achieved so that proper air supply to the burner is permitted while simultaneously obtaining decreased heat loss through stack action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Wayne T. Kemp