Food heating and handling structure

Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE CLASS DESCRIBED FOR HEATING FOOD HELD IN RECEPTACLES HAVING, IN COMBINATION, AN OVEN PROVIDING A HOLLOW INTERIOR HAVING OPPOSING SSIDE WALL SNAD TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS DEFINING A VERTICALLY EXTENDING HEATING SPACE WITH A FRONT ACCESS OPENING AND CLOSURE MEANS THEREFOR MOVABLE BETWEEN CLOSED AND OPEN POSITIONS, THE OPPOSING SIDE WALLS HAVING VERTICALLY SPACED SLOTS AND RESPECTIVELY DEFINING AN AIR INLET SIDE AND AN AIR OUTLET SIDE OF THE HEATING SPACE, AND MEANS FOR FORCIBLY CIRCULATING HEATED AIR AT A SUFFICIENTLY HIGH VELOCITY THROUGH THE HEATING SPACE BETWEN THE AIR INLET AND AIR OUTLET SIDES THEREOF AND CAUSE THE AIR TO BE DIVIDED AT THE SLOTS AT THE AIR INLET SIDE TO PRODUCE A PLURALITY OF AIR STREAMS WHICH FLOW CONTIGUOUS TO ONE ANOTHER AND HORIZONTALLY ONE ABOVE ANOTHER THROUGH THE HEATING SPACE FROM THE AIR INLET SIDE TO THE AIR OUTLET SIDE THEREOF AND DISCHARGE THROUGH THE SLOTH IN THE AID OUTLET SIDE EXTERIORLY OF THE SPACE, STRUCTURE FOR HANDLING FOOD WHICH IS INSERTABLE AND REMOVABLE INTO AND FROM THE HEATING SPACE AND COMPRISES MEANS FOR OPENLY STACKING A PLURALITY OF THE RECEPTACLES ONE OBOVE ANOTHER IN VERTICALLY SPACED RELATION, THE STACKING MEANS COMPRISING A VERTICALLY EXTENDING FRAME, A PLURALITY OF APERTURED SHELVES, MEANS ON THE FRAME FOR CARRYING THE SHELVES ONE ABOVE ANOTHER IN VERTICALLY SPACED RELATION AND UPON WHICH