Oven mounted hood assembly for evacuating heat and airborne particulates

摘要

An mounted hood assembly for use with a conveyorized type oven located within an interior enclosure. The oven includes one or more conveyor belts extending between inlet and outlet sides, the oven further including an open space defined within side walls associated with the inlet and outlet sides and which is contiguous with the upper side of the conveyor, the open space further extending from the inlet to the outlet sides of the oven. One or more hood assemblies are constructed of elongated and three-dimensional shaped bodies and which are each mountable to an oven side wall associated with at least one of the inlet and outlet sides. A generally downwardly and elongate extending inlet is arranged along each of the elongated bodies and arrays in an overhanging fashion above the associated inlet and/or outlet side location of the conveyor belt. The bodies each further include a baffle filter mounted in likewise elongate extending fashion within the body and proximate the inlet. An outlet is defined at a further location of each elongate body and is internally communicable with the inlet. A length of ductwork connects to each elongated body, through its associated outlet, and extends in a substantially upward fashion from the interior enclosure to an externally mounted blower assembly.