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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2000
Hendrikus Antonius Jacobus Kuenen, Overloon, NL;
Koppens B.V., Bakel, NL;
Abstract
An oven comprises a housing provided with heating means, as well as an endless conveyor belt on which products to be heated can be accommodated and can be transported through the housing between an entrance to and exit from said housing, which conveyor belt is guided in the housing helically around each of two drums, which conveyor belt is guided in the housing helically around each of two drums, which are arranged in the housing such that they can be driven about their vertical axis, and is guided straight between two helical paths. The conveyor belt is supported, over at least one of the straight guided paths, by support means that can be moved in the same direction as the conveyor belt.