Patent ID: 6262394
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
In combination with plurality of trays, each having a bottom wall and side and end walls attached to the bottom wall and extending upwardly to an upper rim to provide an upwardly opening interior for holding a food, an oven for transferring heat to the interiors of the trays and the foods in such interiors, said oven comprising: a cabinet; a plurality of tray-receiving members in the cabinet, each tray-receiving member having a generally horizontal cross wall and side walls connected to and extending generally vertically from the horizontal cross wall to provide a generally U-shaped cross section, each tray-receiving member being open at its ends, the trays being in at least some of the tray-receiving members such that the side walls of the trays are along the side walls of the tray-receiving members in which they are located, the side walls of the tray-receiving members serving to isolate the interiors of the trays from each other so that the flavors of foods in different trays do not transfer; and an electric heating element positioned in the cabinet to direct heat into the trays in the tray-receiving members.