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An oven compartment in an oven for subjecting items to a selected heating sequence having a compartment container with a transport opening therein to permit selectively entering such items adjacent to first plenum structure at a perforated surface to allow providing heating fluid thereon. The first

An oven compartment in an oven for subjecting items to a selected heating sequence having a compartment container with a transport opening therein to permit selectively entering such items adjacent to first plenum structure at a perforated surface to allow providing heating fluid thereon. The first plenum structure has a material mass and a specific heat such that a rate of change of temperature of that structure exceeds one degree Centigrade per second for a selected maximum temperature differential between heating fluid and any entered items positioned adjacent to the perforated surface at selected heating fluid pressures at that perforated surface. A method for heating such items with a heating fluid previously heated by a heater, to an extent determined by operating a heater control, directed onto such items is based on obtaining a control representation of a selected set of values for the heater control versus time based on a heating specification for a selected kind of item to be heated. Heating fluid is directed onto such an item with this heating fluid having been previously heated by the heater through operating the heater control to follow the control representation but as adjusted based on measurements of heating fluid near the perforated surface.

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An oven compartment in an oven for subjecting items to a selected heating sequence having a compartment container with a transport opening therein to permit selectively entering such items adjacent to first plenum structure at a perforated surface to allow providing heating fluid thereon. The first

An oven compartment in an oven for subjecting items to a selected heating sequence having a compartment container with a transport opening therein to permit selectively entering such items adjacent to first plenum structure at a perforated surface to allow providing heating fluid thereon. The first plenum structure has a material mass and a specific heat such that a rate of change of temperature of that structure exceeds one degree Centigrade per second for a selected maximum temperature differential between heating fluid and any entered items positioned adjacent to the perforated surface at selected heating fluid pressures at that perforated surface. A method for heating such items with a heating fluid previously heated by a heater, to an extent determined by operating a heater control, directed onto such items is based on obtaining a control representation of a selected set of values for the heater control versus time based on a heating specification for a selected kind of item to be heated. Heating fluid is directed onto such an item with this heating fluid having been previously heated by the heater through operating the heater control to follow the control representation but as adjusted based on measurements of heating fluid near the perforated surface. h delivers at its output a measurement signal representative of the value of a difference between respective pressures at the first and second inlet orifices of each sensor. 2. The system according to claim 1 for the active regulation of air/gas ratio, wherein said means for varying the flowrate of air and gas sent to said air/gas mixer comprise a fan driven by a variable speed electric motor, a temperature regulator unit delivering at its output an air flowrate set point signal whose value depends on a required temperature value, an air flowrate regulator unit which receives at a first input a first measurement signal representative of the air flowrate in the air pipe and at a second input said air flowrate set point signal, and which produces at its output a control signal for said electric motor of the fan such that an air flowrate produced by the fan is equal to said air flowrate set point, a gas supply regulator unit which receives at its input at least a second measurement signal representative of one of the following two parameters: a difference between air and gas pressures in the air and gas pipes, respectively, and the gas flowrate in the gas pipe, and which produces at its output a control signal for a proportional valve varying a quantity of gas sent to the air/gas mixer so as to make said air/gas ratio equal to the predefined value. 3. The system according to claim 1 for the active regulation of air/gas ratio, wherein said measurement circuit comprises a switch with two output channels receiving at its input said output signal of a differential pressure sensor, two memory circuits each connected to one of the output channels of said switch, and a two-input subtractor circuit, each input of which receives output signals from one of said memory circuits and which delivers at its output said measurement signal representing the value of the difference between the respective pressures at the first and second inlet orifices of said sensor, switching from one of the output channels to the other channel being controlled by said control unit. 4. The system according to claim 1 for the active regulation of an air/gas ratio, the system comprising a first differential pressure measuring system including a differential pressure sensor whose two inlet orifices are respectively connected to first and second pressure ports on the air pipe and respectively upstream of and downstream of the air diaphragm and a first measurement circuit which is connected to the output of the first sensor and which delivers at its output said first measurement signal which is representative of the air flowrate in the air pipe, and a second differential pressure measuring system including a differential pressure sensor whose two inlet orifices are respectively connected to a third pressure port on the air pipe upstream of the air diaphragm and a fourth pressure port on the gas pipe upstream of the gas diaphragm and a second measurement circuit which is connected to the output of the second sensor and which delivers at its output said second measurement signal which is representative of the difference between the air and gas pressures. 5. The system according to claim 4 for the active regulation of the air/gas ratio of a burner, wherein the first and third pressure ports consist of one and same pressure port which forms a pressure port common to the first and second differential pressure measuring systems. 6. The system according to claim 5 for the active regulation of the air/gas ratio of a burner, wherein each of the first and second differential pressure measuring systems includes its own 2-channel valve and its own calibrated throttling orifice, the calibrated throttling orifice of the first differential pressure measuring system being in said second pressure port and the calibrated throttling orifice of the second differential pressure measuring system being-in the fourth pressure port. 7. The system according to claim 5 for the active regulat ion of the air/gas ratio of a burner, wherein the first and second differential pressure measuring systems have a common-calibrated throttling orifice which is in said common pressure port and a common 2-channel valve, one of whose two channels is connected to the common pressure port between the throttling orifice and the inlet orifices of the first and second sensors which are connected to the common pressure port and the other of whose two channels is connected to the second pressure port or to a pressure port at which the pressure is equal to that at the second pressure port. 8. The system according to claim 5 for the active regulation of the air/gas ratio of a burner, wherein the first and second differential pressure measuring systems have a common calibrated throttling orifice which is in said common pressure port and a common 2-channel valve one of whose two channels is connected to the common pressure port between the common throttling orifice and the inlet orifices of the first and second sensors which are connected to the common pressure port and the other of whose two channels is connected to the fourth pressure port. 9. The system according to claim 3 for the active regulation of the air/gas ratio of a burner, the system comprising a single differential pressure measuring system whose first pressure port is on the air pipe upstream of the air diaphragm and whose second pressure port is on a gas pipe upstream of the gas diaphragm, and the system further comprising another 2-channel valve which is controlled by the control unit of the differential pressure measuring system and one of whose two channels is connected to whichever of the first and second pressure ports contains said calibrated throttling orifice, between that calibrated orifice and the corresponding inlet orifice of the sensor, and the other of whose two channels is connected to a third pressure port in which the pressure is equal to the pressure in the air/gas mixer, and switching means having an input connected to the output of the measurement circuit of the differential pressure measuring system and two outputs respectively connected to the first input of said air flowrate regulator unit and to the input of said gas supply regulator unit, said switching means being controlled by said control unit to connect the output of said measuring circuit selectively to the first input of said air flowrate regulator unit when said control unit closes the 2-channel valve of the differential pressure measuring system and opens said other 2-channel valve and to the inlet of said gas supply regulator unit when said control unit closes the two 2-channel valves. 10. The system according to claim 3 for the active regulation of the air/gas ratio of a burner, the system comprising a single differential pressure measuring system whose first pressure port is on the air pipe upstream of the air diaphragm and contains said calibrated throttling orifice and whose second pressure port is connected to a point at which a pressure is equal to the pressure in the air/gas mixer and the system further comprising another 2-channel valve which is controlled by the control unit of the differential pressure measuring system and one of whose two channels is connected to the first inlet orifice of the differential pressure sensor of the differential pressure measuring system and the other of whose two channels is connected to a third pressure port on the gas pipe upstream of the gas diaphragm, and switching means having an input connected to the output of the measurement circuit of the differential pressure measuring system and two outputs one of which is connected to the first input of said air flowrate regulator unit and via a sample and hold circuit to a first input of said gas supply regulator unit and the other output of which is connected to a second input of said gas supply regulator unit, said switching means and said sample and hold circuit being controlled by said control unit