Patent ID: 7650880

Claim:
A baking oven for bread, patisserie and pastry products, the baking oven comprising: at least one baking chamber having a movable floor and a baking support; a radiant heating means having a floor hotplate positioned under said movable floor so as to define a space therebetween, said radiant heating means in association with an air moving device for causing a closed-circuit convective circulation path of a heating fluid through said space and around said floor hot plate, said movable floor being permeable so as to allow complementary heating by convection, said radiant heating means and said air moving device for convectively contacting the products with the heating fluid through said movable floor without penetrating into said baking chamber, said movable floor being supported by an upper edge of slides affixed to and extending above said floor hotplate so as to form channels suitable for convection of said heating fluid, said slides being oriented vertically substantially parallel to a direction of movement of said movable floor such that said channels define the closed-circuit convective circulation path of the heating fluid parallel to the direction of movement of said movable floor.