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US 5,960,707 AGranted
Apparatus for heating articles of food by way of the dry method
OwnerJean Marie Mathieu Hoeberigsinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus (10) comprises a heating room (11) for the articles of food, heater (14) and a ventilator (16) for creating a hot air current, and further comprises a device (17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28) which can subject the heating room to a rocking movement around a horizontal axis (13). The heating room (11) is nearly closed and the heater (14) and ventilator (16) are inside the heating room (11) and are fixedly connected to the heating room (11) so that the relative distance between the heater and the articles of food does not change during the rocking movement.
Claims20
An apparatus for dry heating of food, comprising:
- a) a heating room sized for receiving food therein, the heating room being substantially closed;
- b) a heater disposed inside the heating room;
- c) said heater being substantially fixedly connected to said heating room;
- d) a ventilator disposed inside the heating room;
- e) the ventilator being operatively associated with the heater for creating a hot air current;
- f) the ventilator being substantially fixedly connected to said heating room;
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- g) a rocker operatively associated with the heating room for causing the heating room to rock about a substantially horizontal axis.
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