Patent ID: 8875621

Claim:
An apparatus for surface-roasting a food product comprising: a housing; a conveyor for carrying said food product through said housing; and a series of at least two pairs of non-linear ribbon flame burners surrounded by said housing for discharging a ribbon of flame for surface-roasting said food product, one non-linear ribbon flame burner in each of said pairs being oriented at a forward leaning angle with respect to a direction of travel of said conveyor in said housing and the other non-linear ribbon flame burner in each of said pairs being oriented at an equal but opposite rearward leaning angle, the forward and rearward leaning angles being in a range of from about 5° to about 60° from vertical, the series being arranged so said food product being conveyed through the series on said conveyor is continuously contacted by said ribbon flame; wherein each said non-linear ribbon flame burner comprises: an upper segment which extends laterally over said conveyor for discharging an upper portion of said ribbon flame toward a top portion of said food product; a first side segment which extends downwardly from a first end of said upper segment for discharging a first side portion of said ribbon flame toward a first side portion of said food product; and a second side segment which extends downwardly from a second end of said upper segment for discharging a second side portion of said ribbon flame toward a second side portion of said food product; said ribbon flame being a flame that extends along the entire length of each said upper, first side, and second side segments.