Abstract: A cooking oven comprises a cavity having a separating and insulating plate which can be inserted horizontally in the cavity in order to split it in two sub-cavities. Each sub-cavity has heating elements on its side walls. The oven sub-cavities can be singularly or separately and this increases flexibility in use.

Abstract: A temperature control system includes a cabinet or system housing having a plurality of heating compartments for containing intravenous solution bags or other medical items. Each heating compartment is independently heat controlled via a controller, and includes a heating assembly including a heater, a U-shaped heating plate, a temperature sensor and a cut-out switch for disabling the heater when a threshold temperature is exceeded. The desired or set point temperature for each heating compartment may be independently entered to the controller via an input device. The heating plate has a generally U-shaped configuration with a thermally conductive bottom wall and thermally conductive side walls extending therefrom. The heater is typically affixed to the underside of the bottom wall, wherein, upon heating of the bottom wall, heat is conducted through the side walls to provide an even distribution of heat to medical items placed within the heating compartment.

Abstract: An oven for maintaining cooked foods at temperatures suitable for serving the foods or even for cooking foods has a cabinet containing multiple heat sinks of channel-shaped configuration. The ends of the heat sinks open out of the cabinet, so that any heat sink may receive a tray of food from either the front or back of the cabinet. The interior surface of the heat sinks generally conform to the cross-sectional shapes of the trays, so that the heat sinks lie along the bottoms and sides of the trays. The heat sinks have a heating elements extended along their sides and bottoms for elevating the temperature of the heat sinks and directing heat into the trays within the heat sinks. In addition, each heat sink also contains a cover which may close the top of the tray in the heat sink and thereby retard the escape of moisture from the tray or may vent the interior of the tray.

Abstract: A temperature control system includes a cabinet or system housing having a plurality of drawers for containing intravenous solution bags or other medical items. Each drawer is individually controlled, and generally includes a window and a plurality of sub-compartments with each sub-compartment accommodating an intravenous solution bag or other medical item. The drawers are each pivotable relative to the system housing to permit access to the sub-compartments, while the drawer windows enable the intravenous solution bags to be viewed during heating. A heating element is typically disposed beneath each drawer bottom wall to apply heat to walls of corresponding sub-compartments and evenly distribute heat to intravenous solution bags contained within those sub-compartments. Each drawer is associated with a controller that controls the heating element to apply heat to the corresponding drawer sub-compartments in accordance with a comparison between desired and measured temperatures associated with that drawer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for control of precursor and purge additive materials in a deposition system comprising a precursor material delivery system and a plurality of purge additive transfer lines connected between or at components in the precursor material delivery system. One of the plurality of purge additive transfer lines is connected between an ampoule and a liquid mass flow controller, another is connected between the liquid mass flow controller and a vaporizer and a third is connected to the vaporizer. The apparatus further comprises a process chamber connected to the precursor material delivery system and having a susceptor wherein one of the plurality of purge additive transfer lines is connected to the susceptor. With the apparatus and accompanying method, formation of particulate contaminants is greatly reduced.

Abstract: An oven for maintaining cooked foods at temperatures suitable for serving the foods or even for cooking foods has a cabinet containing multiple heat sinks of channel-shaped configuration. The ends of the heat sinks open out of the cabinet, so that any heat sink may receive a tray of food from either the front or back of the cabinet. The interior surface of the heat sinks generally conform to the cross-sectional shapes of the trays, so that the heat sinks lie along the bottoms and sides of the trays. The heat sinks have a heating elements extended along their sides and bottoms for elevating the temperature of the heat sinks and directing heat into the trays within the heat sinks. In addition, each heat sink also contains a cover which may close the top of the tray in the heat sink and thereby retard the escape of moisture from the tray or may vent the interior of the tray.

Abstract: A free-standing warming appliance includes an outer enclosure and an inner liner which cooperate together to form a heating chamber. A warmer drawer forming a receptacle for precooked food stuffs is selectively inserted into and withdrawn out of the heating chamber. A heating element is secured to the inner liner within the heating chamber to warm the food stuffs within the warmer drawer receptacle. A control panel has an indicator light and infinite switch for controlling the heating element. The control panel is located within the enclosure and covered by a front panel of the warmer drawer so that access to the control components of the control panel is provided only when the warmer drawer is withdrawn from the heating chamber. Oven support members are secured to the outer enclosure to support a cooking appliance, such as a built-in oven, above the free-standing warming appliance. The cooking appliance rests directly on the oven support members of the warming appliance.

Abstract: An appliance includes a plurality of electric power consuming devices having associated activated power consumption levels which collectively can exceed an available power supply limit to the appliance. The appliance includes a control system for power distributing to the various devices in a manner which optimizes performance while preventing the current draw from exceeding the established limit. In the most preferred embodiment, the appliance constitutes a range having various heating components, preferably first and second ovens, as well as a plurality of surface heating elements. A current monitoring arrangement signals demanded current levels from certain ones of the heating components, with the signals being used by the control system to distribute the available current on a predetermined priority basis.

Abstract: A food warmer cabinet and improved drawer slide assembly for keeping prepared food warm is provided. The food warmer cabinet comprises a housing assembly, a plurality of slide assemblies, at least one drawer, and a convection heater. The a plurality of slide assemblies are supported within the heating chamber. At least one drawer is slidably supported by the slide assemblies such that the drawer can be slidably positioned within the heating chamber and slidably removed from the heating chamber. The drawer has an interior cavity for receiving a food storage container. The convection heater is supported within the heating chamber such that the drawer can be slidably positioned within the heating chamber and slidably removed from the heating chamber.

Abstract: A liquid reagent delivery and vaporization system, including a housing defining a flow passage for flow of a process fluid therethrough. A vaporizer element is positioned within the housing and includes a heated vaporization surface. Liquid reagent is selectively delivered to the heated vaporization surface, to vaporize the liquid reagent and form reagent vapor for flow through the flow passage of the housing, e.g., to a chemical vapor deposition reactor for deposition of a film on a substrate. A thermal damping fluid source is arranged to selectively deliver a thermal damping fluid into the flow passage to maintain a predetermined thermal condition therein. For example, the system may be arranged to selectively terminate delivery of liquid reagent to the vaporization surface and to contemporaneously selectively initiate delivery of the thermal damping fluid into the flow passage to maintain a thermal condition thermally matches the vaporization conditions when the liquid reagent is vaporized.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for subjecting objects to processes, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of chambers wherein are each adapted to contain at least one object; and processing devices for processing objects present in the chambers, wherein the chambers are adapted to successively perform different processes on the object present in the chamber. According to a first embodiment, the chambers are moveable in accordance with a closed circuit and the processing devices are adapted to perform a process on the object which is present in a chamber present in a defined position. According to a second embodiment the chambers are arranged fixedly and transporting means are arranged to carry the objects for processing and the processed objects in and out of the chambers.

Abstract: A variable volume oven that can be modified to adjust its volume according to the cooking load. The volume of the oven is able to be adjusted by providing a heating element that is vertically adjustable within the oven to a position that provides better convective and radiative heating to the cooking load.

Abstract: An oven for testing the quality of a peripheral storage devices including an aging room, configured to receive a plurality of peripheral storage devices to be tested therein, with upper and lower mixing rooms in fluid communication therewith. A support duct, having a circulation cavity, is in fluid communication with the upper and lower mixing rooms and has a plurality of discharge openings to the circulation cavity. Ducts draw in outside air while hot air is discharged.

Abstract: A self-cleaning oven with improved venting system includes a bottom oven portion, a top oven portion, a back wall and a front member; the top oven portion and the bottom oven portion are separated by an inclined screen wall which is associated with the back wall and with the front member.

Abstract: A cooking appliance is disclosed which comprises an oven intended to be built into a space of predetermined volume in a kitchen unit. Controls for the oven are mounted externally of the space in order to maximise the volume available for the oven cavity. In preferred embodiments, the oven has a partition to divide its cavity into a plurality of cooking spaces. In a further preferred embodiment, the oven has a door assembly having a plurality of leaves which can be opened individually or together to give access to the whole cavity.

Abstract: An oven for cooking by hot air impingement includes a housing defining a cooking chamber adapted to receive a food product for cooking, a hot air plenum configured and dimensioned to hold a volume of air and a conduit for providing gaseous communication therebetween. Associated with the plenum is a thermal energy source for heating gas disposed in the plenum.

Abstract: In a hydrocarbon release rate controlling method, a first chamber is provided capable of receiving successive batches of feed materials for thermal processing having widely varying energy content, heating is produced in the first chamber to cause pyrolyzing of the feed materials into fluid materials, a second chamber is provided communicating with the first chamber and capable of receiving the fluid materials from the first chamber and communicating the fluid materials to a discharge location, heating is produced in the second chamber to cause oxidizing of the fluid materials into discharge gases reaching the discharge location, a jacketed vessel is provided defining a channel surrounding the first and second chambers containing a flow of coolant fluid through the channel, separate variable flows of primary and secondary air are respectively produced into and through the first and second chambers, the temperatures in the first and second chambers are sensed, the temperature of the coolant in the channel of th

Abstract: An electric rice oven which can prevent rice from scorching and producing a fluffy, tasty and delicious rice comprising an electrical heater arranged in the lower part of an oven body, exhaust outlets in the upper part of said oven body, and a vent hole 25 adjacent said heater for decreasing residual heat on the inside of the oven body.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlled processing of materials includes a coolant jacketed vessel defining a first pyrolysis chamber and a second oxidation chamber, first heating elements mounted in the vessel to pyrolyze materials in the first chamber, second heating elements mounted in the vessel to oxidize materials in the second chamber, an induction fan, airflow inlet valves and an air intake proportioning valve connected to the vessel for producing separate variable flows of primary and secondary air into and through the first and second chambers, first sensors mounted on the vessel for sensing the temperatures in the first and second chambers and in the coolant, a second sensor mounted on the vessel for sensing the proportion of a predetermined gas in the discharge gases, and a control system responsive to the temperatures sensed in the first and second chambers and the coolant and to the proportion of the predetermined gas sensed in the discharge gases for controlling the induction fan and air intake proportioni

Abstract: An electric double oven having two self-cleaning cavities, one cavity also having microwave capability wherein forced air from a blower repels hot self-clean air from entering the waveguide. A circuit is provided for limiting the temperature of either cavity to approximately 505.degree. F. when the other cavity is above a temperature associated with self-cleaning. The circuit also limits the common microwave cavity to approximately 505.degree. F. when the blower is not functioning so that oven cavity air entering the waveguide will not present a hazard.

Abstract: A turbine rotor disassembly, handling and reassembly apparatus employs a feedback-controlled electric heating oven to rapidly heat a turbine wheel while the rotor shaft is in the horizontal position. An adapter interfaces the wheel to a handling spool whose outboard end is adjusted to slide on the rotor shaft and to provide a fulcrum for supporting the wheel. A handling trolley includes a soft hydraulic system for supporting the weight of the wheel to avoid damaging the precision machined surfaces of the shrink-fit area while the wheel is being withdrawn. The handling apparatus also provides means for upending, or rotating, the removed wheel through 90 degrees to place its axis vertical for facilitating handling. A sensor system senses a radial motion of the wheel to detect clearance and to establish an appropriate fluid pressure to just balance the weight of the wheel and attached parts. The handling system includes means for rotating the wheel slightly during reassembly to align keyways or the like.

Abstract: A baker's oven has an insulated casing arranged into two series of cylindrical compartments, coaxially one above the other, and separated by horizontal heat-insulating decks. A loading door is provided for each compartment, together with top and bottom heating elements. A vertical drive shaft passes coaxially through each series of compartments and a rotary support, for products to be baked, is mounted on the shaft in each compartment. In one or more of the compartments, a pair of vertically spaced rotary supports may be provided on the shaft and an intermediate heating element is provided below the upper of the two supports.

Abstract: A baker's oven has its casing divided by horizontal decks into a number of superimposed substantially cylindrical compartments, a loading doorway leading into each. A vertical drive shaft through the casing carries, in each compartment, a central substantially cylindrical insulated core from the lower part of which extends an annular rotating support for articles to be baked, each compartment being individually heated electrically. Each or any compartment may have an annular horizontal lid about the core, means being provided for lowering the lid onto bread tins on the support or lifting it clear above the tins.

Abstract: An oven for cooking and heating foodstuffs comprising an elongated, substantially rectangular, heat insulated housing having an entrance end, an exit end, first and second sides, a top and bottom. The housing interior defines a chamber having a first section adjacent the entrance end, a second intermediate section and a third section adjacent the exit end. A continuous, driven conveyor having an upper cooking flight and a lower return flight is supported at its ends beyond the oven housing entrance and exit ends by sprockets and extends longitudinally throughout all three sections of the oven chamber, the upper cooking flight constituting a continuously moving cooking surface intermediate the height of the oven chamber with means to vary its speed. The first and third sections of the oven chamber have upper and lower radiant heating element assemblies located above and below the upper cooking flight of the conveyor.