Patent ID: 7671307

Claim:
A transversal field heating installation or inductively heating flat objects that can be transported in an advancing direction, comprising: at least one inductor unit extending transversely in relation to the advancing direction over the width of a flat object, wherein the at least one inductor unit has at least two inductor layers placed on one side of the flat object and arranged one on top of the other parallel to the plane of the flat object, said at least two inductor layers can be displaced independently of each other transversely in relation to the advancing direction, each of the inductor layers having two inductor portions, each inductor layer comprising two base limbs spaced apart from each other in parallel and extending transversely in relation to the advancing direction, and where the inductor portions of an inductor layer of said at least two inductor layers are displaceable independently of each other transversely in relation to the advancing direction.