Oven for heating food
AssigneeDuke Manufacturing Co.
InventorsSteven M. Shei, Dennis R. Headberg, Clement J. Luebke
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Abstract
An oven for heating food is disclosed. The oven has at least one heating compartment with a left side wall, a right side wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and an open front, without a door, in open communication with a surrounding environment outside the oven. Gas flow openings are provided in the left and right side walls. The oven includes a blower for blowing gas through the gas flow openings into the heating compartment, and a heater for heating gas blowing into the heating compartment through the openings. In certain embodiments, the gas flow openings are configured such that substantially all of the gas blowing into the heating compartment is directed generally away from the open front of the compartment.
Claims19
An oven for heating food, comprising
- a housing having a left side, a right side, a top, a bottom, a back, and a front,
- an oven cavity inside the housing comprising at least one heating compartment for heating food placed in the compartment,
- the heating compartment having a left side wall, a right side wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and an open front, without a door, in open communication with a surrounding environment outside the oven,
- gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls,
- a blower for blowing gas through the gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls into the heating compartment,
- a heater for heating gas blowing into the heating compartment through the gas flow openings, and
- wherein the gas flow openings are configured such that substantially all of the gas blowing into the heating compartment is directed generally away from the open front of the compartment.
An oven for heating food, comprising
- a housing having a left side, a right side, a top, a bottom, a back, and a front,
- an oven cavity inside the housing comprising at least one heating compartment for heating food placed in the compartment,
- the heating compartment having a left side wall, a right side wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and an open front, without a door, in open communication with a surrounding environment outside the oven,
- gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls,
- a blower for blowing gas through the gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls into the heating compartment,
- a heater for heating gas blowing into the heating compartment through the gas flow openings, and
- a movable air deflector at the top of the open front of the heating compartment for deflecting heated air into the heating compartment,
- said air deflector being movable between a lowered operative position and a raised position, and
- said air deflector in its lowered position extending down over only an upper portion of the open front of the heating compartment.
An oven for heating food, comprising
- a housing having a left side, a right side, a top, a bottom, a back, and a front,
- an oven cavity inside the housing comprising at least one heating compartment for heating food placed in the compartment,
- the heating compartment having a left side wall, a right side wall, a back wall, and an open front, without a door, in open communication with a surrounding environment outside the oven,
- gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls,
- a blower for blowing gas through said gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls into the heating compartment,
- a heater for heating gas blowing into the heating compartment through said gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls,
- gas flow openings in the back wall of the heating compartment, and
- wherein gas blows into the heating compartment via said gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls and gas exhausts from the heating compartment via said gas flow openings in the back wall of the heating compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.