Automated oven appliance for baking and broiling food
OwnerStephen Bateinventor
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Abstract
An improved automated oven appliance for baking or broiling food in a cooking chamber is disclosed. The appliance includes two heating elements, one or more food baskets, a baking pan, a temperature sensor, a cooking chamber, a user interface panel, a micro controller and two motors located within a metal cabinet. Food cooking methods stored in memory in a micro controller determines cooking chamber temperature and cooking intervals, as well as movement of one of the food baskets in the cooking chamber. Intervals of rotary motion of a food basket in the cooking chamber as part of a cooking method and ultimate shut down of the appliance after food is cooked is controlled by the memory of the micro controller.
Claims7
An improved oven appliance for baking, roasting, or broiling food, wherein the oven appliance includes:
- a cooking chamber defining an interior region;
- at least two heating elements in the cooking chamber, wherein one of the at least two heating elements is located adjacent to a lower portion of the cooking chamber and is used for baking or roasting food, and wherein the other of the at least two heating elements is located adjacent to an upper portion of the cooking chamber and is used for broiling food;
- a temperature sensor for determining a temperature within the cooking chamber;
- a baking pan located within the lower portion of the cooking chamber;
- a food basket disposed within the cooking chamber;
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- a controller means adapted and configured for causing said one of the at least two heating elements to maintain a predetermined temperature in the cooking chamber for a first predetermined period of time;
- wherein the improvement comprises:
- at least two motors operatively associated with the food basket;
- wherein the controller means is further adapted and configured for causing said one of the at least two heating elements associated with heating the lower portion of the cooking chamber to be turned off when the first predetermined period of time has passed and the food basket is moved from the baking pan;
- wherein the controller means is further adapted and configured for causing one of the at least two motors to move the food basket from the baking pan vertically upward along a first axis from a first position located adjacent to the lower portion of the cooking chamber to a second position located near the upper portion of the cooking chamber for broiling the food;
- wherein the controller means is further adapted and configured for causing the other one of the at least two heating elements to be turned on for a second predetermined period of time to broil food in the food basket after said one of the at least two motors has moved the food basket to the second position;
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- wherein the controller means is further adapted and configured for causing the other one of the at least two motors to rotate the food basket for the second predetermined period of time about a second axis disposed transverse to the first axis after the food basket has been moved from the pan along the first axis from the first position to the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.