Oven Flap 2 System

Abstract

The invention is in short, a stainless steel swinging door. It is a simple rectangular piece of 20 gauge 304 #4 Stainless Steel. (Different gauge metal can also be used. A reduction in the gauge will reduce the overall weight of the invention and allow food products with less weight to push open the swinging door. However reducing the gauge makes “The Oven Flap 2” more susceptible to damage. A standard dimension of “The Oven Flap 2” for a 32 inch conveyor oven with a 4 inch opening, is 31.50 inches in length×3.75 inches in height and 0.025 inches in thickness. (The height and length of the invention can be adjusted to fit ovens which have different openings sizes but the function and use of the invention remains exactly the same.) Once attached to the ends of any conveyor style oven with the assistance of the Pivot Unit, “The Oven Flap 2” creates a barrier which block escaping heat and in turn dramatically reduces the amount of energy the oven uses.

1 ) “The Oven Flap 2” creates a barrier or “swinging door” at the ends of conveyor style ovens which blocks escaping heat. 
   
   
       2 ) In creating this barrier or “swinging door”, energy consumption of the oven is dramatically reduced. 
   
   
       3 ) When “The Oven Flap 2” invention is attached to an oven in combination with the Pivot Unit, it creates the ability to become a “swinging door” thus allowing objects (such as pizzas) to open and close “The Oven Flap 2” as the conveyor moves forward. 
   
   
       4 ) When “The Oven Flap 2” invention is use in combination with deep dish pizza pans, or low profile pizzas and other foods are protected by the “The Pizza Guard” or similar device, “The Oven Flap 2” will not come in contact with the food product as the conveyor moves forward through the oven.