Steam generator for convection oven
AssigneePremark FEG L.L.C.
InventorSerge C. Vallee
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Abstract
A stream generator for use in a convection oven comprising a plurality of first and second spherically shaped heat accumulator elements arranged alternately in a substantially vertical plane in which the first layer contains at least one row of the heat accumulating elements integrally joined together at a central axis and the second layer contains at least two rows of the heat accumulating elements integrally joined together at a central axis, and a convection oven employing the steam generator are disclosed.
Claims7
A convection oven comprising:
- (a) an oven chamber for receiving goods to be baked as a batch;
- (b) heating means;
- (c) means for circulating heated air containing steam in a closed path extending substantially throughout said oven chamber;
- (d) a steam generator disposed outside said oven chamber for generating steam, said steam generator comprising a plurality of first and second heat accumulator units arranged alternately in a substantially vertical plane, said first heat accumulator unit containing at least one horizontal row of spherically shaped heat accumulator elements being integrally joined together and fixed relative to each other along a central axis and said second heat accumulator unit containing at least two horizontal rows of spherically shaped heat accumulator elements, the spherically shaped elements in each row of said second heat accumulator unit being fixed relative to each other and being integrally joined along a central axis.
The convection oven of claims wherein said first heat accumulator unit contains two horizontal rows of heat accumulator elements and said second heat accumulator unit contains three horizontal rows of heat accumulator elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.