Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
  • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
  • F24C7/04—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy with heat radiated directly from the heating element
  • F24C7/046—Ranges

Definitions

• This invention relates to a domestic oven of the type defined in the preamble of the following Claim 1.
• the main object of the invention is to provide an oven of the said type which in the first hand is designed for thawing and heating of precooked, frozen food portions and which, compared to a convection oven, calls for a considerably shorter treatment time at the same time as the consumption of energy is reduced.
• Another object is to design and locate the radiation elements in such a way that a uniform heating of the load is achieved.
• Still another object is to prevent, in the event that the oven has a door with an inspection glass, short-wave infra-red radiation from escaping to any signi ⁇ ficant extent through the door.
• Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section through an oven made in accordance with the invention.
• Fig. 2 is a cross section through the oven of Fig. 1.
• Fig. 3 is a circuit diagram of a system for controlling the energy supply and the treatment time suitable for the oven.
• the oven has a generally parallelepiped oven space 10 defined by two side walls 11, 12, a top wall 13, a bottom wall 14, a rear wall 15 and a front wall constituted by a door 16.
• a support plate 17 carries the oven load 18, which in the example is a frozen fish au gratin placed in a tin 19, suitably of aluminium with
• the support plate is of a material which is transparent to IR-radiation, for example temperature-resistant glass.
• the support plate can be in the form of a gridiron.
• the support plate rests on flanges 20 provided in the side walls 11, 12. Such flanges can be disposed at different levels in the oven so as to allow adjustment of the position of the support plate.
• the radiator comprises a tube element 21 bent to meander form.
• the tube element is disposed in a reflector 22 which reflects downwardly emitted radiation to the underside of the tin 19 in order to heat it.
• the tube element 21 heats the tin, from which heat is transferred to the food portion au gratin by convection.
• This type of radiator is suitable in the present case because frozen food on thawing and heating is often positioned on a vessel which is not pervious to IR-radiation.
• the lower radiation element is often soiled by grease and food falling onto it and stucki ⁇ g thereto by burning.
• a tube element of metal Is easier to clean that the quartz-tube radiators which are used as upper radiatiqp elements and which will be described in the following.
• the extension of the reflector 22 preferably coincides with the extension of the tin 19, which is shown as a double-tin, i.e. it comprises two tins which are held together and each one contains one portion.
• the tube element 21 is selected for a surface load > - 3 W/cm 2 it has proved to be suitable to place the support plate 17 such that the distance between its supporting surface and the tube element will be about 30 mm. Further, the tube element should have a thermal mass which does not exceed 7 g/dm tube length to ensure that the time derivative for the growth of the radiation from this element is of equal magnitude as for the normally very rapid quartz-tube radiators.
• the elements 23 - 25 are parallel to the side walls 11, 12, but the elements can just as well be arranged so as to be parallel to the rear wall 15 and the door 16, respectively.
• These radiation elements emit IR-radiation in the wavelength range of 1,0 - 1,4 ,um with peak performance at 1,2 ,um. In this wavelength range the radiation can penetrate the surface layer of the load, in the example the fish au gratin, and heating be accomplished down to the bottom of the food. This contributes substantially to the reduction of the required treatment time.
• the radiation elements 23 - 25 more or less complex mathematical relationships can be established for different conditions as regards the number of ⁇ H elements and their positioning, i.e. whether they are perpendicular or parallel to the door. These relationships are meant to show at what distances between the radiation emitting plane and the support plane of the support plate 17 as well as between the radiation elements the optimal heating of the different parts of the load is obtained.
• Three different examples will now be related in which the elements give a uniformly distributed heating effect without burning of the edges of the load, which otherwise frequently occurs.
• the thickness of the load must in this case not exceed 5 cm, and hence the radiation intensity will be higher in the central part than in the edges of the load.
• the vertical distance between the plane through the radiation elements and the plane of the support plate shall be between 40 and 70 % of the active length, designated by L in Fig. 1, of the elements. Furthermore, the distance between the elements shall be between 40 and 60 % of the distance, designated by B in Fig. 2, between the side walls.
• the elements are symmetrically disposed relative to the side walls 11, 12.
• the radiation elements 23 - 25 emit short-wave IR-radia ⁇ tion which may damage the eyes of an observer should it penetrate with sufficient intensity through an opening 28 arranged in the door 16 and covered by glass 26, 27.
• One way of reducing the intensity is to increase the reflection of the inner glass 27 of the door, which can be done by a layer of tin oxide.
• Another way is to arrange a blind 29 preventing observation of the radiation elements 23 - 25 in the
• the upper radiation source here includes two radiation elements of quartz type, designated by IR, , IR « and each one having an output of 1000 W.
• the lower radiation source is designated by IR-, and has an output of 1300 W.
• the element IR is connected between two feed conductors 30, 31 via two contacts F, G.
• the element IR_ is connected to the conductor 30 via two contacts D, E and to the conductor 31 via the contacts F, G.
• the contact E is further connected to the conductor 31 via two contacts R, , RRON of a relay R.
• the winding of the relay is connected via contacts P, Q to the conductor 30 and further via contacts C, B to the conductor 31.
• timer motors M-, , t For controlling the switched-in times of the radiation elements IR, - IR, two timer motors M-, , t are provided.
• the timer I is connected to the conductor 30 via two contacts L, M and to the conductor 31 via the contacts C, B.
• the timer is connected to the conductor 30 via two contacts H, K and to the conductor 31 via two contacts A, B.
• the contacts M and K are interconnected and also connected to the element IR, which is connected to the conductor 31 via a switch S, .
• the conductors 30, 31 are connected to terminals 32, 33 via a two-pole main switch S 2J and the voltage connected is indicated by a signal lamp LA connected between the conductors 30, 31.
• the complete circuit diagram includes an earth connection 34.
• the timer M- controls the contacts A-B-C, D-E, F-G and H-K whereas the timer M ? controls the contacts P-Q and L-M " .
• the timer M When the timer M, has been set it has simultaneously closed the contacts A-B, D-E, F-G and H-K. Corresponding setting of the timer M_ closes the contacts L-M and P-Q.
• the main switch S ⁇ When thereafter the main switch S ⁇ is closed the feed conduct- ors 30, 31 are connected to voltage so that the timer M, starts counting dow from the time t, to 0.
• the elements IR, and IR ⁇ are connected in parallel to the feed conductors 30, 31 and via the contacts H-K and the switch S, , being in "on-position", the element IR-, is connected.
• the timer M after the time t, has reached the zero position the con ⁇ tacts A-B open and the contacts B-C close.
• the ele ⁇ ments IR, - IR will be connected in parallel during the time set.
• the switch S is arranged in order to make it possible to heat solely by means of the upper elements IR-, , IR-, for example for gratinating. Then the lower element is disconnected.
• control system shown in Fig. 3 can be replaced by an electronic unit which- for example by pulse width modulation or by phase control can regulate the energy supplied to all of the radiation elements.

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