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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1987
G Wayne Stewart, Plano, TX (US);
Bill E Davis, Irving, TX (US);
William M Thomas, Garland, TX (US);
Michael J Dobie, Plano, TX (US);
Carlos Bacigalupe, The Colony, TX (US);
Stewart Systems, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An oven (20) includes an oven enclosure (24) having a conveyor (40) mounted therein for transporting food products through the oven. A plurality of ribbon burners (100) are mounted within the oven interior (32) adjacent the path of the conveyor to heat the interior of the oven. Heated gases generated by operation of the ribbon burners are received through inlet plenums (140) under operation of a circulation fan (146) and are discharged through discharge tubes (154) extending adjacent portions of the conveyor (40) remote from the locations of the ribbon burners (100). Exhaust gases are removed from the oven interior through discharge ports (180) by exhaust blower assemblies (184) which are operated to remove exhaust gases from the oven interior at a rate proportional to the flow rate of combustion air and gaseous fuel into the ribbon burners.