HEATING CABINET FOR TREATING NUT MEATS
First Claim
1. An apparatus for treating nut meats and the like by low temperature heat comprising, a cabinet housing defining a walled enclosure of heat conductive material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a pair of spaced-apart parallel upright walls and a door closing the front excess to the cabinet housing, shelves mounted on the spaced-apart paralled walls, an electrical heating element fixed to the bottom wall of the cabinet housing and dielectrically insulated therefrom, a thermostatic device electrically connected to said heating element for controlling temperature of the space within the cabinet housing, a plurality of individual containers of heat conductive material for containing said nut meats, trays for supporting the containers on said shelves, the space within the cabinet housing is evenly heated by the heat produced by the heating element and conducted through the heat conductive walls, and a cover plate spaced from and covering the heating element to prevent the nut meats in the containers nearest the heating element to be overheated, said cover plate being removable to allow the nut meats in the containers to be rapidly heated by radiant heat from the heating element when the containers are first placed in the cabinet housing.
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Abstract
A nut meat cabinet constructed of heat-conductive material. Shelving is provided on the walls of the cabinet for receiving trays of individual sealed packets of nut meats, wherein a portion of the packet is of conductive material and a heating element is fixed to one of the walls of the cabinet so as to heat the enclosed chamber formed by the cabinet by conductive heat.
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1 Claim
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1. An apparatus for treating nut meats and the like by low temperature heat comprising, a cabinet housing defining a walled enclosure of heat conductive material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a pair of spaced-apart parallel upright walls and a door closing the front excess to the cabinet housing, shelves mounted on the spaced-apart paralled walls, an electrical heating element fixed to the bottom wall of the cabinet housing and dielectrically insulated therefrom, a thermostatic device electrically connected to said heating element for controlling temperature of the space within the cabinet housing, a plurality of individual containers of heat conductive material for containing said nut meats, trays for supporting the containers on said shelves, the space within the cabinet housing is evenly heated by the heat produced by the heating element and conducted through the heat conductive walls, and a cover plate spaced from and covering the heating element to prevent the nut meats in the containers nearest the heating element to be overheated, said cover plate being removable to allow the nut meats in the containers to be rapidly heated by radiant heat from the heating element when the containers are first placed in the cabinet housing.
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Current AssigneeMaurice I. Polansky
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Original AssigneeMaurice I. Polansky
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InventorsPolansky, Maurice I.
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Primary Examiner(s)Mayewsky, Volodymyr Y.
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Application NumberUS05/284,397Time in Patent Office386 DaysField of Search219/209,385,386,387,392,399,400,402,406,428,430,439,521,530,540 165/2 126/246 312/236 99/401,447US Class Current219/399CPC Class CodesF24C 15/16 Shelves, racks or trays ins...F24C 7/06 Arrangement or mounting of ...
