GB2090389A - Drying printed metal objects - Google Patents

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GB2090389A
GB2090389A GB8036734A GB8036734A GB2090389A GB 2090389 A GB2090389 A GB 2090389A GB 8036734 A GB8036734 A GB 8036734A GB 8036734 A GB8036734 A GB 8036734A GB 2090389 A GB2090389 A GB 2090389A
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F26BDRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B3/00Drying solid materials or objects by processes involving the application of heat
    • F26B3/18Drying solid materials or objects by processes involving the application of heat by conduction, i.e. the heat is conveyed from the heat source, e.g. gas flame, to the materials or objects to be dried by direct contact
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F26BDRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
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    • F26B23/022Heating arrangements using combustion heating incinerating volatiles in the dryer exhaust gases, the produced hot gases being wholly, partly or not recycled into the drying enclosure

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An oven (10) for rapidly drying materials printed on small metal objects, such as flat metal sheets (50) for use in making metal cans, comprises a flame-heating section (30) into which such sheets are carried on a conveyor (48), and a 'hot air' heating section (32) into which said sheets are subsequently conveyed. Flames produced by gas- fired burners (73) in the flame heating section impinge directly on said sheets, and hot combustion gases are led off via a communicating duct (40) into the hot air heating section, where they emerge on to said sheets from nozzles (84). The flow of gases through said communicating duct is variable, by means of a fan (44), and their temperature can be increased, by operation of a gas-fired control burner (42). A controllable exhaust duct (34) controls the proportion of combustible solvent in the flame heating oven section. Recirculation of some hot gases from the hot air oven section is achieved via a recirculation aperture (87) in the roof of that oven section. <IMAGE>

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SPECIFICATION Oven for drying matter printed on metal objects This invention relates to an oven that is suitable for use in drying and/or curing decorative protective and other matter printed, coated or otherwise applied to metal objects such as thin sheet-metal pieces or articles. For convenience only, such metal objects or articles will be referred to hereafter as printed metal objects, the application of such printed materials will be referred to as printing, and the materials applied will be referred to as printed materials.
Modern printed materials used in forming inscriptions and decorative matter on metal sheets and other metal objects are capable of being dried and/or cured in a very short time interval, for example, of the order of 3 seconds, so that it is wasteful of space, time and energy to use drying ovens of the hitherto conventional kind, even if they are modified by reducing their length so as to suit the new range of drying/curing times.
In what follows the term drying is intended to include curing where appropriate.
In such conventional ovens for drying printed materials applied to metal sheets it has been customary to stack such sheets on edge on a conveyor passing through the oven, being spaced apart thereon by supports carried by the conveyor.
Though such supports (known in the art as wickets) have been constructed with minimum material and take up minimum space, those supports never-theless limit the closeness of adjacent stacked plates, and hence the capacity of the oven for given length and moreover they represent a source of heat loss since they take up heat from the oven each time they enter, and give up their heat to the atmosphere each time they leave.
In one particular field, relating to the manufacture of metal cans, each such metal sheet has in the past commonly constituted a plurality of blanks for the manufacture of articles (cans), the blanks being produced by subdividing the printed sheet after printing and drying.
With the quick drying printing materials that are now available, advantageous results can be obtained by subdividing such metal sheets into requisite small sizes suitable for forming said blanks before applying the printing materials, then printing said blanks, and finally by heat treating said printed blanks to dry the material printed on said blanks, said blanks then being ready for forming into the intended articles.
According to one feature of the present invention an oven suitable for drying such small printed blanks has first and second sections arranged contiguously and through which printed blanks or other articles are to be carried on a conveyor, said first section being provided with gas fired main burner means for flame drying said printed materials on said blanks or articles as they pass through that section, and a communicating duct arranged to carry away hot combustion gases from said first section and to deliver them to nozzle means mounted in said second section for the further heating of said blanks or articles by said gases as they issue from said nozzle means onto said blanks or articles as they move through said second section of the oven.
Preferably, said communicating duct incorporates a fan for controlling the rate of flow of said combustion gases through said nozzle means into said second section. Said communicating duct may also incorporate a gas fired control burner by means of which the temperature of said combustion gases maybe increased when required to elevate the temperature of said gases present in said second section. Said control burner may be controlled automatically by means of a thermostatic device in said section, so as to maintain the temperature in that section within a given range of values. Furthermore said fan may be automatically controlled to assist in maintaining said temperature in said second section.
Said second section of the oven may also be provided with a recirculation aperture which communicates with said communicating duct and which is controlled by an adjustable damper for the purpose of allowing as required a proportion of said combustion gases issuing from said nozzle means to be recirculated into said communicating data for reheating and subsequent delivery again through said nozzle means to said second section.
Preferably, said first section incorporates an exhaust gas duct disposed so as to extract exhaust gases from a zone near the entry end of that section, and said exhaust gas duct is controllable by means of an adjustable damper and/or an exhaust fan to vary the rate of extraction of the exhaust gases.
Said main burner means preferably comprises a plurality of burners arranged in sequence along the path of said articles through said first section, and positioned so that their respective flames play on the printed surface of said articles, thereby to progressively and rapidly raise the temperature of such articles. Preferably, where such articles comprise flat metal sheets, each such burner is arranged so that its flame plays on such sheets across the fuli width thereof.
Likewise said nozzle means in said second section preferably comprises a plurality of nozzles arranged in sequence along the path of said articles through said second section, and positioned so that the respective jets of combustion gases play on the printed surfaces of said articles, thereby to progressively raise still further the temperature of each such article, and to ensure uniform heating of each such article.
Preferably said articles are carried on said conveyor with the printed surfaces thereof exposed upwardly, and said burners and nozzles are disposed above the conveyor and heat said articles from above, said flames and jets being directed downwardly.
The conveyor may advantageously comprise at least two parallel transversely-spaced, endless bands of a heat resisting metal, which bands are supported outside said oven on a pulley system which incorporates a resilient biassing means (preferably air operated) for maintaining the bands at a desired tension. Where said articles comprise flat sheet metal blanks, said bands are conveniently spaced apart so as to support said blanks near their respective edges.
Intermediate supports for the conveyor bands may be provided within the respective oven sections so as to control the sag in the upper, article-carrying parts of their respective bands. Both the upper and lower parts of each said band is preferably arranged to pass through said oven.
Other features of the present invention and the advantages thereof will appear from the description that follows hereafter One quick drying oven embodying the present invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings in which: Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken at the Section l-l shown in the Figures 2 and 3; Figure 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken at the Section ll-ll shown in the Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken at the Section Ill-Ill shown in the Figure 1.
Referring now to the drawings the oven 10 comprises an insulated oven body 12 defined by upper and lower walls 14, front and rear side walls 18,20, and left and right end walls 22, 24 in which are formed article inlet and outlet apertures 26, 28 respectively.
The oven body encloses two contiguous oven sections, namely, a direct-flame heating or combustion section 30 extending inwardly from the inlet end wall 22, and a "hot-air" heating section 32 extending inwardly from the outlet end wall 24.
An insulated exhaust duct 34 leads off upwardly from the inlet end of said combustion section 30, and incorporates a controllable damper 36 and an exhaust fan 38; whilst an overhead insulated communicating duct 40 connects at its left-hand end with the inward end ofthe combustion section 30, and its right-hand end centrally with said hot air section 32.
The communicating duct 40 incorporates at its inlet end a controllable "control" gas burner 42, and at its outlet end a circulating fan 44 which is connected to an externally-mounted, variable-speed, driving motor 46.
A conveyor 48 for conveying flat printed sheet metal blanks 50 (for subsequent conversion into metal cans for containing for example paint) through the oven body comprises two similar, thin, endless, metal bands 52, 54 (preferably of stainless steel) spaced transversely apart and stretched over respective pairs of crown profiled metal pulleys 56,58 which are disposed externally of the oven at opposite ends thereof. Pairs of metal idler pulleys 60,62, likewise crown profiled, co-operate with the lower runs 64 of the respective band to reduce the vertical separation of the lower and upper runs64, 66 of the two bands, thus enabling the said inlet and outlet apertures 26, 28 to be minimum height, and thereby minimizing the potential loss of hot gases through said apertures.The pair of pulleys 58 at the oven outlet end are driven at constant speed (when in operation) by an adjustable speed driving motor 68, whilst the pair of pulleys 56 at the oven inlet end are urged in a band-tightening direction (leftwards in Figure 1) by air pressure operated biassing piston and cylinder devices (not shown).
Within the oven body the respective upper runs 66 of the two conveyor bands are supported at intervals by cylindrical supports 70 carried in pairs on cantilever support arms 72. These conveyor band supports limit the sag of the top runs 66 of the conveyor bands, and damp any tendency for said bands to move in transverse directions across the width of the oven body.
Small rectangular, printed, tinned sheet-steel can blanks 50 (typically of sizes between 100 x 250 mm, and 300 x 600 mm) are received at intervals (from a blank printer or decorator not shown) onto the left-hand input end of the conveyor 48, the blanks being positioned centrally with respect to the respective conveyor bands 56, 58. The blanks are carried, spaced axially apart on the conveyor, into the oven body through said inlet aperture 26, through the combustion and hot air sections of the oven body, and then leave through said outer aperture 28, being delivered at the pulleys 58 to a further conveyor not shown.
Four gas burners 73 project into said combustion section 30 through the rear side wall 20 of the oven, and have nozzles disposed and oriented so as to project (when in operation) their respective flames 73A directly onto the printed metal blanks 50 passing beneath on the conveyor 48, the flames extending across the maximum width of the metal blanks, and being directed forwardly against the direction of the oncoming metal blanks. The vertical separation of the burners from the blanks is such that the hottest part of the burner flames impinges on the upper surfaces ofthe passing metal blanks.
The combustion products arising from said burner flames are drawn upwardly, under the suction created by the circulating fan 44, through entry slots 74 into a recirculation duct 76 disposed in the upper part of said combustion section 30 of the oven, thence into said communicating duct 40 for supply through said circulating fan 44 to said hot air heating section 32 of the oven.
The communicating duct 40 communicates through the outlet duct 78 of said circulating fan 44 with a plenum chamber 80 which is disposed in and extends lengthwise of said hot air heating section 32 of the oven. From the front wall 82 of the plenum chamber a series of hot air nozzles 84 project sideways over the metal blanks 50 carried on the conveyor 48, and direct jets of recirculated hot gases (combustion products) directly downwards onto said blanks, said jets extending across the maximum width of said metal blanks so as to uniformly heat each blank across its whole width.
The nozzles 84 are each provided with adjustable nozzle-forming plates 84B (see scrap view shown in Figure 1) the positions of which can be adjusted to vary the size, position and orientation of the jets issuing between those plates.
The horizontal wall 86 defining the lower boundary of the communicating duct 40 has provided therein a recirculation aperture 87 and an associated controllable recirculation damper 88 for controlling the recirculation through said aperture 87 and communicating duct 40 of combustion products issuing from said nozzles 84.
These nozzles carry at their respective free ends said cantilever support arms 72 for supporting the upper runs of the conveyor bands.
When the oven is in normal operation, the gas-air mixture supplied to the gas burners in said combustion section is controlled automatically by control apparatus not shown to maintain a necessary temperature in the combustion section (typically up to 650"C) and to provide burner flames of the correct length so that the flames play onto the printed sheet metal blanks 50 carried past them at high speed by the conveyor 48, simultaneously flame-drying the printed material on the blanks and heating up those blanks to cause the solvents in the printed materials to be driven off and burnt.
The heat still carried by the combustion products is used to further heat the metal blanks, by withdrawing those combustion products through the recirculation duct 76 and the communicating duct 40, and then passing them under pressure to the nozzles 84 in the hot air section, from which nozzles they are ejected at high speed onto the blanks as they are carried through the heating section of the oven. Those combustion gases are repeatedly recirculated via said recirculation aperture 87, and via said entry slots 74 in the recirculation duct 76.The temperature of the gases passing through said communicating duct 40 may be boosted by the control burner 42 operating under automatic control so as to maintain the temperature in the hot air section of the oven at a necessary temperature (typically up to 540 C) sufficient to achieve the desired heating of the metal blanks 50 and the drying/curing of the printed materials thereon.
The exhaust fan 38 and damper 36 are controlled to exhaust gases from said combustion section 30 at a rate sufficient to keep the proportion of combustible solvent driven off from said printed material on said blanks in the oven body below a safe level for the avoidance of explosions.
The control gas burner 42 may also be used when starting up the oven, so as to ensure a more rapid buildup to the required oven operating temperature.
A quick drying oven as described above may have a length of some 20 feet (approximately 6 m), and a conveyor speed such as to convey the metal blanks through the oven in approximately 3 seconds.
The gas burner flames are intended to give a rapid initial heat up of the printed metal blanks in the combustion section, whereafter the blanks are intended to soak up further heat in the hot air heating section, thereby ensuring thoroughly uniform heating of the blanks to the desired temperature whilst in the oven.
The burners in the combustion section are adjusted to give a heating effect suited to the drying/ curing characteristics of the particular printed materials carried on the metal blanks.
Ovens built in accordance with the present invention are, in relation to prior art ovens for drying printed materials on sheet metal objects, much more compact, and therefore cheaper to build and install; have much lower heat losses via the oven walls, via the conveyor, and through exhaust gases; and consume much less electrical and thermal energy for comparable heating duty. Moreover, the time to come up to the operating temperature is considerably shorter.
CLAIMS (filed 4.11.81) 1. An oven for drying and/or curing printed materials (as hereinbefore defined) printed on small metal sheets or other metal objects (all of which are referred to hereafter as metal objects) comprising: (a) a first insulated oven section; (b) a second insulated oven section disposed contiguously with and communicating with said first oven section; (c) conveyor means for conveying at a uniform high speed small printed objects as aforesaid through said first oven section and then through said second oven section;; (d) fuel burner means (referred to hereafter as the main burner means) positioned and arranged in said first oven section so that when said oven is in operation flames produced by said main burner means impinge directly on said printed materials printed on said metal objects being conveyed through said first oven section, thereby to cause flame-drying of said printed materials; and (e) a duct (referred to hereafter as the communicating duct) communicating at one end thereof with said first oven section and at the opposite end thereof with said second oven section and providing a passage way along which, when the oven is in operation, hot combustion gases produced in said first oven section pass to said second oven section, there to provide a hot gaseous environment in which said printed objects achieve a uniform temperature sufficient to ensure complete drying and/or curing of said printed materials on said metal objects.
2. An oven according to Claim 1, wherein said communicating duct incorporates a fan for assisting the flow of hot combustion gases from said first to said second oven section.
3. An oven according to Claim 2, wherein said fan is provided with a variable-speed driving motor, and control means are provided for controlling the speed of said driving motor.
4. An oven according to Claim 2 or Claim 3, wherein said communicating duct also incorporates an auxiliary fuel burner means for increasing, when operative, the temperature of hot combustion gases flowing through that duct to said second oven section, and wherein there is provided control means for controlling the rate of fuel combustion at said auxiliary burner means.
5. An oven according to Claim 4, including a thermostatic device responsive to the temperature of said hot gaseous environment in said second oven section, and operative to vary said rate of fuel combustion at said auxiliary burner means and/or the speed of said fan driving motor, thereby to vary the temperature and/or the rate of flow of hot combustion gases to said second oven section, in a manner tending to maintain said temperature in said second oven section within a given range of values.
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**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. communicating duct 40 of combustion products issuing from said nozzles 84. These nozzles carry at their respective free ends said cantilever support arms 72 for supporting the upper runs of the conveyor bands. When the oven is in normal operation, the gas-air mixture supplied to the gas burners in said combustion section is controlled automatically by control apparatus not shown to maintain a necessary temperature in the combustion section (typically up to 650"C) and to provide burner flames of the correct length so that the flames play onto the printed sheet metal blanks 50 carried past them at high speed by the conveyor 48, simultaneously flame-drying the printed material on the blanks and heating up those blanks to cause the solvents in the printed materials to be driven off and burnt. The heat still carried by the combustion products is used to further heat the metal blanks, by withdrawing those combustion products through the recirculation duct 76 and the communicating duct 40, and then passing them under pressure to the nozzles 84 in the hot air section, from which nozzles they are ejected at high speed onto the blanks as they are carried through the heating section of the oven. Those combustion gases are repeatedly recirculated via said recirculation aperture 87, and via said entry slots 74 in the recirculation duct 76.The temperature of the gases passing through said communicating duct 40 may be boosted by the control burner 42 operating under automatic control so as to maintain the temperature in the hot air section of the oven at a necessary temperature (typically up to 540 C) sufficient to achieve the desired heating of the metal blanks 50 and the drying/curing of the printed materials thereon. The exhaust fan 38 and damper 36 are controlled to exhaust gases from said combustion section 30 at a rate sufficient to keep the proportion of combustible solvent driven off from said printed material on said blanks in the oven body below a safe level for the avoidance of explosions. The control gas burner 42 may also be used when starting up the oven, so as to ensure a more rapid buildup to the required oven operating temperature. A quick drying oven as described above may have a length of some 20 feet (approximately 6 m), and a conveyor speed such as to convey the metal blanks through the oven in approximately 3 seconds. The gas burner flames are intended to give a rapid initial heat up of the printed metal blanks in the combustion section, whereafter the blanks are intended to soak up further heat in the hot air heating section, thereby ensuring thoroughly uniform heating of the blanks to the desired temperature whilst in the oven. The burners in the combustion section are adjusted to give a heating effect suited to the drying/ curing characteristics of the particular printed materials carried on the metal blanks. Ovens built in accordance with the present invention are, in relation to prior art ovens for drying printed materials on sheet metal objects, much more compact, and therefore cheaper to build and install; have much lower heat losses via the oven walls, via the conveyor, and through exhaust gases; and consume much less electrical and thermal energy for comparable heating duty. Moreover, the time to come up to the operating temperature is considerably shorter. CLAIMS (filed 4.11.81)
1. An oven for drying and/or curing printed materials (as hereinbefore defined) printed on small metal sheets or other metal objects (all of which are referred to hereafter as metal objects) comprising: (a) a first insulated oven section; (b) a second insulated oven section disposed contiguously with and communicating with said first oven section; (c) conveyor means for conveying at a uniform high speed small printed objects as aforesaid through said first oven section and then through said second oven section;; (d) fuel burner means (referred to hereafter as the main burner means) positioned and arranged in said first oven section so that when said oven is in operation flames produced by said main burner means impinge directly on said printed materials printed on said metal objects being conveyed through said first oven section, thereby to cause flame-drying of said printed materials; and (e) a duct (referred to hereafter as the communicating duct) communicating at one end thereof with said first oven section and at the opposite end thereof with said second oven section and providing a passage way along which, when the oven is in operation, hot combustion gases produced in said first oven section pass to said second oven section, there to provide a hot gaseous environment in which said printed objects achieve a uniform temperature sufficient to ensure complete drying and/or curing of said printed materials on said metal objects.
2. An oven according to Claim 1, wherein said communicating duct incorporates a fan for assisting the flow of hot combustion gases from said first to said second oven section.
3. An oven according to Claim 2, wherein said fan is provided with a variable-speed driving motor, and control means are provided for controlling the speed of said driving motor.
4. An oven according to Claim 2 or Claim 3, wherein said communicating duct also incorporates an auxiliary fuel burner means for increasing, when operative, the temperature of hot combustion gases flowing through that duct to said second oven section, and wherein there is provided control means for controlling the rate of fuel combustion at said auxiliary burner means.
5. An oven according to Claim 4, including a thermostatic device responsive to the temperature of said hot gaseous environment in said second oven section, and operative to vary said rate of fuel combustion at said auxiliary burner means and/or the speed of said fan driving motor, thereby to vary the temperature and/or the rate of flow of hot combustion gases to said second oven section, in a manner tending to maintain said temperature in said second oven section within a given range of values.
6. An oven according to any preceding Claim,
wherein said second oven section has a controllable aperture which communicates with said communicating duct for the purpose of allowing a proportion of said combustion gases in said second oven section to mix with and be recirculated with hot combustion gases flowing in said communicating duct from said first to said second oven section.
7. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein a controllable exhaust duct communicates with said first oven section near the part thereof through which said printed metal objects enter that oven section on said conveyor means, thereby to enable a proportion of said hot combustion gases to be exhausted from the oven.
8. An oven according to Claim 7, wherein said controllable exhaust duct comprises a duct in which are incorporated an exhaust fan and a damper, and means are provided for varying respectively the speed of the fan and the position of the dam per, thereby to vary the rate of extraction of combustion gases from said first oven section and thus to control at a safe levei the proportion in said first oven section of combustible solvent driven off from said printed materials.
9. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein said main burner means comprises a plurality of fuel burners spaced apart along and extending across the path of said metal objects through said first oven section, each such burner being positioned and arranged so that when in operation the flame produced thereby plays on the printed materials on said objects as they pass by, thereby to progressively and rapidly raise the temperature of each said printed object as it passes through said first oven section.
10. An oven according to Claim 9, wherein said main fuel burner is arranged so that when in operation its flame impinges on each said object across the whole width thereof normal to its direction of movement along said path.
11. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein said communicating duct communicates at its said opposite end with said second oven section through nozzle means which extend through a boundary wall of said second oven section and which have nozzle openings which open into said second oven section, and which when in operation direct hot combustion gases from said communicating duct on to said printed metal objects passing through that oven section.
12. An oven according to Claim 11, wherein said nozzle means comprises a plurality of nozzles spaced apart along and extending across the path of said metal objects through said second oven section, each said nozzle being positioned and arranged so that hot combustion gases issuing therefrom play on said objects, thereby to progressively raise still further the temperature of each such object and ensure eventually uniform heating thereof.
13. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein said printed metal objects are carried by said conveyor means with the printed materials thereon exposed upwardly, and said main burner means is disposed above said objects and arranged to direct the flames produced thereby downwardly on to said metal objects.
14. An oven according to Claim 13 as dependent on Claim 11 or 12, wherein said nozzle means is disposed above said metal objects passing through said second oven section and arranged to direct hot combustion gases from said communicating duct downwardly on to said metal objects.
15. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein said communicating duct communicates at its said opposite end with said second oven section ata central part of that oven section.
16. An oven according to any preceding Claim, wherein said conveyor means comprises at least two parallel, transversely-spaced, endless, narrow bands of heat-resisting metal, each such band being carried on and tightly stretched between crown-profiled pulleys mounted at positions beyond the respective extremities of the two said oven sections, the pulleys at one end of the two oven sections being coupled together and to a driving motor, and at least the corresponding runs of the two bands that are to carry said objects through said first and second oven sections passing through those oven sections.
17. An oven according to Claim 16, wherein said corresponding runs of said conveyor bands carry said metal objects through entry and exit apertures formed in boundary walls of the respective oven sections, which apertures are of a size just sufficient to allow the passage therethrough of said objects.
18. An oven according to Claim 17, wherein the other or return runs of the two conveyor bands also pass through said first and second oven sections, entering and leaving the respective oven sections through said entry and exit apertures respectively, and the vertical separation of the two runs of each said band within the two oven sections being of low value so as to reduce to a low value the escape of hot combustion gases from the respective oven sections through said entry and exit apertures.
19. An oven according to any one of the Claims 16 to 18, including support means disposed within said oven sections for supporting said object conveying runs of said conveyor bands, thereby to limit to a desired value the sag of said runs when carrying said objects through said oven sections.
20. An oven according to any one of the Claims 16 to 19, wherein said conveyor bands are transversely spaced apart so as to carry each said object near the extremities of its transverse dimension.
21. An oven according to any preceding claim, substantially as hereinbefore described with referpence to and as illustrated by the accompanying diagrammatic drawings.
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