Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1997-06-03
1998-07-21
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99386, 99427, 99443C, 99477, 126 21A, 219388, A47J 3700, A21B 142, A21B 307, A21B 700
Patent
active
057821690
ABSTRACT:
A food processing system which includes a product baking stage (10), a product processing stage (11) and an endless conveyor (19) which is driven to carry product support trays (22) serially through the processing and baking stages. The endless conveyor (19) has a forward path (20) which extends through both the processing and the baking stages and a return path (21). The baking stage (10) comprises a baking chamber (26) through which the conveyor is guided to follow a path which includes a plurality of horizontal passes (27). The processing stage (11) comprises three interconnected compartments (29, 30 and 31) and in two of the compartments (29 and 30) the conveyor is guided to follow paths which include a plurality of horizontal passes (32). In the third processing compartment (31) both the forward path (20) and the return path (21) of the conveyor are guided to make a plurality of vertically extending passes. A conveyor transport mechanism (36) is located within the third processing compartment (31) and is drivable (upwardly and downwardly) in the vertical direction to effect simultaneously complementary changes in the lengths of the forward and return path portions of the conveyor that are at any one time located within the third processing compartment.
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Auto-Bake Pty Ltd
Simone Timothy F.
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