Rotary oven
AssigneeBelco Industries, Inc.
InventorThomas F. Kohn
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Abstract
This oven has a primary heating chamber containing heat-generating equipment producing hot gases. These gases pass from the primary heating chamber to a secondary heating chamber occupied by an indexing rotary magazine in object-exchanging relationship with a mechanism for inducing movement of the objects through the oven. The secondary heating chamber can be used for either pre-heating or heat-soaking the objects, depending on the direction of movement of the objects through the oven. The objects are loaded on the carrier (or removed, according to the application of the oven) radially at a position angularly spaced from the position of exchange with the movement-inducing means.
Claims13
An oven having a primary heating chamber including heat-generating means and means for inducing movement of gases through said primary heating chamber, means for inducing movement of objects along a path through said primary heating chamber, and a secondary heating chamber communicating with said primary heating chamber and traversed by said path and by said gases, wherein the improvement comprises:
- an object carrier rotatably mounted in said secondary heating chamber, said carrier having a plurality of receptacles angularly spaced about the axis of rotation thereof;
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- indexing means adapted to rotate said carrier to positions successively placing said receptacles for engagement of said movement-inducing means with objects carried by said receptacles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.