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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
May. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hendrikus Antonius Kuenen, Overloon, NL;
Assignee:
Koppens B.V., Bakel, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J / ; A21B / ; F27B / ; F24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
9944 / ; 99386 ; 99476 ; 99479 ; 126 / ; 432 58 ; 432121 ; 432138 ; 432143 ;
Abstract
An oven for preparing food products comprises a housing, a conveyor belt which is movable through the housing and on which the food products can be arranged, which conveyor belt follows a helical path, heating elements and booster devices for generating a stream of hot air through the housing in connection with heating the food products arranged on the belt. In the housing there are guide elements for guiding the stream of hot air over the belt in such a way that the products are uniformly heated in the transverse direction of the belt.