Autonomous apparatus for cooking food, and corresponding method
AssigneeDe' Longhi Appliances S.R.L. Con Unico Socio
InventorsGiuseppe De' Longhi, Gianpaolo Trevisan
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Abstract
Autonomous apparatus for cooking food comprising a support body (12), an openable lid (14), an internal container (16) which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body (12) and open at the top, at least one heating device (18) and at least one element (20) to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container.
Claims8
Autonomous apparatus for cooking food comprising a support body (12), an openable lid (14), an internal container (16) which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body (12) and open at the top, at least one heating device (18) and at least one element (20) to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container (16), said at least one air flow generator element (20) being connected to a return exit (28) cooperating, when said lid (14) is in the closed position on said container (16), with a peripheral edge (24a) of said container (16) to remove said flow of air from said container (16) and to channel it toward said at least one heating device (18) by means of an annular pipe (30), characterized in that said annular pipe (30) has two ends symmetrically connected to said at least one air flow generator element (20).
Autonomous apparatus as in any claim hereinbefore, characterized in that said container (16) is rotatable around an axis of rotation by means of a drive member (46).
Autonomous apparatus as in any claim hereinbefore, characterized in that it comprises a mixing device (48) provided with at least one mixing blade rotating with respect to said container (16).
Method to return a flow of air inside an autonomous apparatus (10) for cooking food comprising a support body (12), an openable lid (14), an internal container (16) which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body (12) and open at the top, at least one heating device (18) and at least one element (20) to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container (16), characterized in that it provides to:
- heat a flow of air by means of said at least one heating device (18);
- remove said flow of used air from said container (16) through a return exit (28) cooperating, when said lid (14) is in the closed position on said container (16), with a peripheral edge (24a) of said container (16);
- channel said flow of air toward said at least one heating device (18) by means of an annular pipe (30) in order to define a closed circuit travel of said flow of air, wherein said the annular pipe (30) has two ends, symmetrically connected to said at least one air flow generator element (20).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.