Heating cabinet for treating nut meats

Claim 1

An apparatus for treating nut meats and the like by low temperature heat comprising, a cabinet housing defining a walled enclosure of heat conductive material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a pair of spaced-apart parallel upright walls and a door closing the front excess to the cabinet housing, shelves mounted on the spaced-apart paralled walls, an electrical heating element fixed to the bottom wall of the cabinet housing and dielectrically insulated therefrom, a thermostatic device electrically connected to said heating element for controlling temperature of the space within the cabinet housing, a plurality of individual containers of heat conductive material for containing said nut meats, trays for supporting the containers on said shelves, the space within the cabinet housing is evenly heated by the heat produced by the heating element and conducted through the heat conductive walls, and a cover plate spaced from and covering the heating element to prevent the nut meats in the containers nearest the heating element to be overheated, said cover plate being removable to allow the nut meats in the containers to be rapidly heated by radiant heat from the heating element when the containers are first placed in the cabinet housing.

Claim 2

An apparatus for treating nut meats and the like by low temperature heat comprising, a cabinet housing defining a walled enclosure of heat conductive material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, a pair of spaced-apart parallel upright walls and a door closing the front excess to the cabinet housing, shelves mounted on the spaced-apart paralled walls, an electrical heating element fixed to the bottom wall of the cabinet housing and dielectrically insulated therefrom, a thermostatic device electrically connected to said heating element for controlling temperature of the space within the cabinet housing, a plurality of individual containers of heat conductive material for containing said nut meats, trays for supporting the containers on said shelves, the space within the cabinet housing is evenly heated by the heat produced by the heating element and conducted through the heat conductive walls, and a cover plate spaced from and covering the heating element to prevent the nut meats in the containers nearest the heating element to be overheated, said cover plate being removable to allow the nut meats in the containers to be rapidly heated by radiant heat from the heating element when the containers are first placed in the cabinet housing.