Pan wash energy

摘要

Apparatus for washing baking pans or the like comprises a pair of side-by-side hot washing solution tanks with a hot spray chamber mounted above each tank and with an endless belt conveyor which passes the articles successively through the spray chambers and from thence on to a dryer. A heat exchanger submerged in one of the tanks heats the water in that tank, some of which overvlows into the other tank. The same heat exchanger supplies hot air to both spray chambers by a flue riser outlet above the level of both tanks. Thus the heating equipment in one tank heats both tanks, and both spray chambers: thus saving the additional energy that would be required to separately heat such tank and each spray chamber.