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FOUR TUNNEL [2 records]

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Record 1 2011-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Breadmaking
  • Pastries
CONT

The traveling hearth oven or tunnel oven is designed primarily for large volume continuous operation. Here the hearth represents a motor-driven conveyor which passes in a straight line through a series of heat zones ... at a rate that assures thorough baking of the goods. Loading is done at one end and unloading [is done at the same level] at the opposite end of the oven.

OBS

Tunnel oven.

Key term(s)
  • travelling hearth oven

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Boulangerie
  • Pâtisserie
CONT

Le four tunnel est en gros constitué par un long couloir [...] La sole du four peut être constituée par des chaînes [...] En France, pour la cuisson du pain, c'est un tapis métallique laminé qui en tient lieu. Un gros tambour à chaque extrémité du four sert à tendre et à entraîner le tapis qui se déplace à l'intérieur et sur lequel se déroule la cuisson.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Herramientas y equipo industriales
  • Panificación
  • Repostería
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Record 2 1982-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Refractory Materials (Metallurgy)
  • Ovens and Baking (Ceramics)
DEF

a kiln in which the firing zone is stationary and in which the ware passes along a straight or circular tunnel.

DEF

A tunnel kiln is often named after the method of moving the work through the kiln. (...) Small tunnel kilns may have a traveling mesh belt (mesh belt tunnels), or the ware may be placed in metal or refractory boxes called saggers. The boxes may be pushed through on a stationary hearth (pusher tunnel) or may roll on top of ceramic rollers (roller hearth tunnel).

Key term(s)
  • sagger

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux réfractaires (Métallurgie)
  • Fours et cuisson (Céramique industrielle)
DEF

four dans lequel le feu est fixe et où les produits se déplacent le long d'un tunnel rectiligne ou circulaire (annulaire).

Spanish

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