Magna International Inc.

Tracy Arnold Grant Taylor

Darren Andrew Womack

Edward Schleichert

Erryn Leigh Ashmore

Venugopal Garimella

Tom Sanor

Kevin VanDenBrouck

Tarlok Singh Kainth

James Arminski

A multi-opening oven assembly for simultaneously heating a plurality of blanks, for example aluminum blanks, before forming the heated blanks in a production line is provided. The oven assembly includes vertically aligned shelves to present a plurality of chambers for heating the blanks. A table including an entry side platform and an exit side platform moves vertically along the oven assembly. A rail system extends along the platforms and the shelves to convey the blanks in and out of the chambers. Once one set of heated blanks is removed from a first chamber, the table moves vertically to a second chamber and is ready to receive the next set of heated blanks. A continuous supply of heated blanks is provided for high throughput. The oven assembly is preferably disposed in a press adjacent a forming station of an existing production line and thus, no additional floor space is required.

Aluminum warm forming multi-opening oven and production line

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Windsor, CA, United States of America

Tracy Arnold Grant Taylor