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US 12,660,960 B2Granted
Cooking appliance, straining device and use
AssigneeMiele & Cie. KG
InventorsMicha Reifert, Ralf Ellersiek
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Abstract
A straining device for a cooking appliance includes: at least one straining body having at least two passages for draining liquid. At least one passage provided as a hole. At least one passage is provided as an embossment. In an embodiment, the at least one straining body includes a plurality of embossments along a circumference of the at least one straining body.
Claims14
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- at least one cooking chamber having at least one opening configured to fill the at least one cooking chamber and at least one door configured to close an opening of the at least one cooking chamber,
- wherein the at least one cooking chamber is delimited at least by a bottom wall and is heatable by at least one steam source,
- wherein the bottom wall has at least one liquid discharge opening by which at least one liquid is dischargeable from the at least one cooking chamber into a liquid discharge device, and
- wherein a straining device is arranged at least sectionally above the liquid discharge opening, the straining device comprising:
- at least one straining body having at least two passages configured to drain liquid;
- and
- at least one locking device by which at least the at least one straining body is lockable in the cooking appliance at at least one section of the cooking appliance in an installed state,
- wherein at least one passage comprises a hole, and
- wherein at least one passage comprises an embossment,
- wherein the bottom wall comprises at least one guide device by which at least one liquid and/or at least one solid-liquid mixture is guidable in a direction of the liquid discharge opening,
- wherein the straining device comprises at least one orientation device configured to position the at least one straining body installed in the cooking appliance in at least one predetermined orientation at at least one section of the cooking appliance, and
- wherein, in the at least one predetermined orientation, at least cross-sections of the at least one embossment and a cross-section of the at least one guide device are arranged substantially congruently to one another so that at least one liquid is guidable out of the cooking chamber via the at least one guide device and through the at least one embossment to the liquid discharge opening.
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