Pizza oven
AssigneeNieco Corporation
InventorsEdward D. Baker, Nils Lang-Ree, Ralph K. Johnson
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Abstract
An oven for heating foodstuffs, i.e. cooking pizza, has a heated enclosure substantially L-shape in plan to leave an exposed sector. A rotor is turned intermittently by power to carry pizzas from the exposed sector, through the heated enclosure and back to the exposed sector. In the heated enclosure the pizzas are baked by a stream of heated and reheated air circulated in a closed path.
Claims5
An automatic pizza oven comprising
- (a) a frame,
- (b) a generally circular pizza support mounted on the frame for rotation about a generally vertical axis,
- (c) upstanding generally radial walls on said support dividing said support into a plurality of equal arcuate segments,
- (d) housing means on said frame surrounding said support defining an oven area which encloses a plurality of the accurate segments and an access area on top of at least one of one of the segments with the housing means defining doorways between the oven and access areas and with the doorways closely interfitting with the radial walls whereby the radial walls form doors closing the doorways,
- (e) closed circuit heating and circulating means for heating air in said oven area and circulating the heated air throughout the oven area, and
- (f) intermittent drive means for starting rotation of the pizza support on the frame, rotating the pizza support through an integral multiple of the arcuate extent of one of said segments and then stopping rotation of the support.
A progressive oven comprising a frame, a generally horizontal rotor mounted on the frame for rotation about a generally vertical axis, radial means for radially dividing said rotor into sectors, wall means cooperating with the radial dividers of said rotor for defining an enclosed oven chamber, means for heating air, means for circulating air over said heating means and through said oven chamber, and means for rotating said rotor about said axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.