Conveyor oven

A conveyor oven for cooking food, the conveyor oven comprising:

• an oven housing defining an oven chamber in which the food is cooked;
• a conveyor operable to convey the food through the oven chamber, wherein the conveyor includes a frame and a track movable with respect to the frame;
• and
• an opening defined in an end of the oven chamber, wherein a projecting portion of the conveyor extends out of the oven chamber through a first portion of the opening, and a second portion of the opening below the conveyor is closed by a removable end plug,
• wherein, in a closed position of the removable end plug, an upper edge of the removable end plug is at least partially retained by a portion of the conveyor frame extending along the projecting portion of the conveyor, and
• wherein when the removable end plug is in the closed position, a chamfer surface on a lower-inner corner of the removable end plug is received within the oven chamber adjacent a bottom wall of the oven housing.

A method of assembling a conveyor oven for cooking food, wherein the conveyor oven includes an oven housing having an oven chamber in which food is cooked and a conveyor that extends through the oven chamber, the method comprising:

• inserting an upper edge of a removable end plug into a pocket formed by the oven housing and a frame of the conveyor;
• and
• moving the end plug into a closed position whereby at least a portion of a lower edge of the end plug is received inside the oven chamber along a bottom wall of the oven housing,
• wherein contact that occurs between the lower edge of the end plug and the bottom wall of the oven housing during the movement of the end plug into the closed position cams the end plug further into the pocket.