Toaster oven
AssigneeThe Steelstone Group LLC
InventorsBinyumen Itzkowitz, Kalman M. Wertzberger
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a toaster oven including: a cooking chamber; an air passage; and a fan. The cooking chamber includes a side wall and a top wall. One of the side wall and the top wall is provided with an air inlet in communication with a cooking space of the cooking chamber. The other of the side wall and the top wall is provided with an air outlet in communication with the cooking space. The air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet is disposed outside the cooking chamber. The fan blows air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air passage.
Claims9
A toaster oven comprising:
- a cooking chamber that includes a side wall and a top wall, one of the side wall and the top wall being provided with an air inlet in communication with a cooking space of the cooking chamber, and the other of the side wall and the top wall being provided with an air outlet in communication with the cooking space;
- an air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet disposed outside the cooking chamber;
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- a fan that blows air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air passage,
- wherein the air passage includes first and second linear air paths that are separated by a separator from each other and each of the first and second linear air paths extends in a first direction parallel to the top wall, and
- wherein the air outlet includes:
- a plurality of first elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in the first direction and within the first linear air path, such that longitudinal length to width ratios of the first elongated air outlet holes are increased as the first elongated air outlet holes are distant from the side wall, wherein each of the first elongated air outlet holes is a slot;
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- a plurality of second elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in the first direction and within the second linear air path, such that longitudinal length to width ratios of the second elongated air outlet holes are increased as the second elongated air outlet holes are distant from the side wall, wherein each of the second elongated air outlet holes is a slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.