Method to retrofit can oven or dryer
AssigneeStolle Machinery Company, LLC
InventorsAndrew Peter Raynor, Andrew Christopher Hyde
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Abstract
A method to retrofit a gas can oven or dryer to make a hybrid can oven or dryer includes moving one or more existing components of the gas can oven or dryer to new positions, removing an existing combustion chamber of the gas can oven or dryer, disconnecting a gas burner of the gas can oven or dryer, installing a new combustion chamber in the gas can oven or dryer, the new combustion chamber accommodating the gas burner and one or more electric heating elements, electrically connecting the one or more electric heating elements, and modifying a control system of the gas can oven or dryer to utilize the gas burner and the at least two electric heating elements.
Claims10
A method to retrofit a gas can oven or dryer to make a hybrid can oven or dryer, the method comprising:
- moving one or more existing components of the gas can oven or dryer to new positions;
- removing an existing combustion chamber of the gas can oven or dryer;
- disconnecting a gas burner of the gas can oven or dryer;
- installing a new combustion chamber in the gas can oven or dryer, the new combustion chamber accommodating the gas burner and one or more electric heating elements;
- connecting the gas burner;
- electrically connecting the one or more electric heating elements;
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- modifying a control system of the gas can oven or dryer to utilize the gas burner and the one or more electric heating elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.