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US 10,117,546 B2Granted
Appliance for cooking by air flow
AssigneeSeb S.A.
InventorOlivier Le Grand
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Abstract
Provided is an appliance for cooking and/or reheating food, which includes: a housing having a cooking vessel arranged such as to receive the food to be cooked and/or reheated, and a circuit for heating by ventilation including an air duct arranged such as to channel and direct a flow of hot air onto the food to be cooked and/or reheated, wherein the air duct has at least one cross-section in which a geometric size of the channeled air flow is limited such as to reduce a turbulence of the air flow flowing downstream from said at least one section of the air duct.
Claims10
Appliance for cooking and/or reheating food, comprising:
- A housing with a cooking vessel arranged to receive the food to be cooked and/or reheated,
- A circuit for heating by air flow, comprising an air duct arranged to channel and direct a stream of hot air onto the food to be cooked and/or reheated,
- wherein the air duct has at least one cross-section downstream of which the turbulence from the air flow is reduced by limiting one geometric dimension of the stream of air channeled by said cross-section of the air duct,
- wherein the air duct has an elbow and at least two heating means, each heating means comprising a support forming a fin in which the supports are arranged with a predefined orientation with respect to the flow of air, to direct the air stream in the direction of the elbow,
- wherein the supports of the fins are arranged at an angle in a direction of an upstream portion of the elbow to change a direction of a vertical air flow into the elbow,
- wherein an entire portion of each fin is arranged at an angle in the at least one cross-section in a direction of the upstream portion of the elbow such that the fins face one another to separate the air stream into at least three veins of air, each with a thickness reducing a turbulence of the flow of the air stream inside the air duct,
- wherein the air duct comprises one upstream end, having at a predetermined distance from the upstream end, a gradually reduced cross-section arranged to progressively limit said geometric dimension of the air stream channeled along one portion of the air duct, and
- wherein the gradually reduced cross-section begins upstream of the elbow and ends at the elbow.
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