Abstract: An oven for treating food including a well of sheet metal material that is open at the top, a removable insert open at the top end located in the well, the side walls and bottom of the insert being spaced from the side walls and bottom of the well to define air circulating passages therebetween with the top of the circulating passages being open. The insert also includes a plurality of gill openings formed in the side walls of the insert, the gill openings having the open portion thereof facing upwards on the outer side of the insert to divert air from the air passages into the interior of the insert. The insert further includes openings at the bottom thereof for communicating the air passages with the interior of the insert. The oven further includes a removably fitted lid which forms the top thereof, and an air circulating fan depending from the lower side of the lid for drawing air upwardly out of the insert.

Abstract: This invention relates to a magazine for wares for use in automatic shops, comprising a shaft for receiving a pile of packages, wherein there are distributed along the shaft a number of suction cups for retaining the packages individually in the shaft without the packages being in contact with each other, and wherein the suction cups are individually controllable in order to be made inoperative temporarily during a short interval one at a time in a sequence beginning from below and continuing upwards.