Variable capacity oven
OwnerRonald M. Popeil, Alan L. Backusinventors
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Abstract
A cooking enclosure is configured to hold food being cooked. The enclosure includes a surrounding, generally vertical, sidewall, projecting upward from a base. The base includes a floor bridging a bottom of enclosure, and the enclosure is capped by a vertically moving ceiling. The vertical moving ceiling secures a cooking heat source which is in thermal communication with the enclosure interior. The moving ceiling is configured to move up and down within the sidewall to vary, up and down, a volume of the cooking enclosure. The cooking enclosure is configured to have both a smaller cooking enclosure volume, suitable for quickly cooking small foods, and larger cooking enclosure volume necessary to cook larger foods.
Claims14
A cooking enclosure configured to hold food being cooked, and the enclosure including:
- a surrounding, generally vertical, sidewall, projecting upward from a base, the base including a floor bridging the bottom of enclosure, and the enclosure being capped by a vertically moving ceiling, configured to fixedly couple in at least two different positions above the base,
- the vertically moving ceiling mounting a cooking heat source which is in communication with the enclosure's interior, and the vertically moving ceiling being configured to move up and down within the sidewall, and to thereby vary, up and down, the volume of the cooking enclosure,
- wherein the cooking enclosure is configured to have both a smaller cooking enclosure volume, suitable for quickly cooking small foods, and is configured to have a larger cooking enclosure volume necessary to cook larger foods.
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