Patent ID: 7003897

Claim:
A coffee roaster, comprising: an oven for providing conventional and radiant heat used to roast coffee beans in a batch, and having opposite end walls; a roasting drum which turns on a horizontal axis within the oven to tumble coffee beans while roasting and to even out differences in coffee bean heating; a pair of bearing journals, each one fitted at a corresponding end of the roasting drum, and such that they each fit within said opposite end walls of the oven; and a first and second set of four rollers each that receive the turning weight of the roasting drum by riding along the bearing journals; wherein, each said roller in a set of four roller wheels is height adjustable at roughly a 4-o'clock, a 5-o'clock, a 7-o'clock, and an 8-o'clock position to enable the lateral and vertical repositioning of the roasting drum in the oven.