Automatic baking machine

An automatic baking machine, comprising:

• a loading unit having a plurality of carriers attached to a first vertical conveyor configured for receipt at a load position of individual goods to be baked, the first vertical conveyor movable in a vertical conveying path to sequentially bring the carriers to the load position, the first vertical conveyor having an uppermost unload position where the goods are removed from the carriers;
• an oven unit arranged downstream from said loading unit, said oven unit having an input end and a linearly opposite delivery end, and a transportation conveyor moving in an endless loop in the oven unfit and configured to transport the individual goods placed on the transportation conveyor linearly through said oven unit in a single linear conveying direction from said input end to said opposite delivery end;
• a delivery unit arranged downstream from said oven unit adjacent to said delivery end, said delivery unit having a second vertical conveyor with a plurality of carriers attached thereto for receipt of baked goods directly from said transportation conveyor;
• a linear conveyor arranged between the uppermost unload position of said first conveyor and said transportation conveyor, wherein the individual goods to be baked are transferred from the uppermost unload position of said first conveyor to said linear conveyor, conveyed by said linear conveyor in a conveying direction perpendicular to the linear conveying direction of the transportation conveyor, and transferred from said linear conveyor to said transportation conveyor, wherein said linear conveyor and said transportation conveyor are fixed vertically in position such that the goods to be baked are conveyed along a common fixed horizontal plane along the linear conveyor, transferred from the linear conveyor to the transportation conveyor, and conveyed linearly through the oven unit on the transportation conveyor in the single linear direction from the input end to the opposite delivery end, and then onto the carriers of the second vertical conveyor of the delivery unit;
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• a collection device arranged at an end of the linear conveyor;
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• the linear conveyor configured to automatically reverse direction after transfer of the goods to be baked to the transportation conveyor so as to convey any goods that were not transferred and remain on the linear conveyor to the collection device.