Cooking appliance particularly useful as a multi-function toaster oven
AssigneeHome Care Technologies Ltd.
InventorSimon Dotan
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Abstract
A cooking appliance particularly useful as a multi-function toaster oven includes an impaling member in its cooking compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled, and horizontally-extending electrical heaters above and below the impaling member, which electrical heaters are sequentially energized and de-energized according to a predetermined sequence to produce a rotating heat front for heating the food article on the impaling member. The appliance may also include shelf supports for removably supporting one or more wire-screen shelves to enable the appliance also to be used as a toaster oven, a broiler oven, and/or a microwave heater to enable the appliance also to be used as a microwave oven.
Claims18
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing having walls defining a cooking compartment for receiving a food article to be cooked;
- a plurality of electrical heaters within said compartment for heating a food article therein;
- an impaling member mounted within said compartment for impaling a food article to be cooked or grilled, and including a further electrical heater for heating the food article impaled thereon;
- and an electrical supply for energizing and de-energizing said electrical heaters;
- said impaling member being removably mounted in a horizontal, operative position within said compartment;
- said appliance further comprising an electrical device effective to permit energization of said further electrical heater within said impaling member only when the impaling member is mounted in said horizontal operative position within said compartment.
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a housing having walls defining a cooking compartment for receiving a food article to be cooked;
- an impaling member horizontally mounted within said compartment for impaling a food article to be cooked or grilled;
- a plurality of electrical heaters within said compartment, including at least one electrical heater extending horizontally over said impaling member, and at least one electrical heater extending horizontally under said impaling member;
- and an electrical supply for energizing and de-energizing said electrical heaters;
- said impaling member being pivotally mounted within said compartment about a vertical axis to an operative position disposed completely within said compartment, or to a loading/unloading position projecting outwardly of said compartment to facilitate loading and unloading of a food article with respect to the impaling member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.