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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 1977
Filed:
May. 06, 1975
Harold D Wells, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Black Body Corporation, Fenton, MO (US);
Abstract
A multiple tier oven which comprises a plurality of superimposed oven chambers, each being of tunnel character having an ingress at one end and an egress at the opposite end; each oven being heated at its top and bottom, and individually controllable heating means for each oven to allow of preselected temperature differentials. Associated with each oven chamber and surfacewise aligned with the floor thereof is a service deck for introduction of articles or products to be heated, such as, for example, food, into the related oven chamber and for receipt of heated articles from the egress end thereof. Endless conveyor means are associated with each deck and having a preselected number of sweep arms engageable thereon for directing articles into, through, and from each oven chamber.