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US 6,874,408 B2Granted
Rotisserie cooker
AssigneeAdvantage Partners IP, LLC
InventorsAlan L. Backus, Ron Popeil
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Abstract
A horizontal axis rotisserie oven with versatile electronic controls. The rotisserie further includes: an improved spit for quick mounting of food, and a door which hides blemishes due to normal use, and easily referenced food cooking indexes, and means for keeping countertops clean.
Claims10
A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source, where the control cycles on and off the cooking heat source during a warming of food at between {fraction (1/60)}th of a second and 40 seconds;
- the control able to be bet for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven spit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- achieving lower heat by electricity supplied to the cooking heat source being cycled on and off during the period of warming food;
- and
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A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source;
- the control able to be set for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven spit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- achieving lower heat by electricity supplied to the cooking heat source being cycled on and off during the period of warming food;
- and
- where the heat source, while warming foods, is turned on and off in a duty cycle ranging from 5% to 60% on.
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A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source;
- the control able to be set for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven suit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- and
- a switch which when activated causes food to be automatically warmed after the period of cooking.
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A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source;
- the control able to be set for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven suit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- a rotary knob to adjust the period of cooking;
- and
- where the amount of time incremented or decremented from the period of cooking by a given number of degrees of rotation of the rotary knob varies with how fast the rotary knob is rotated.
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A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source;
- the control able to be set for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven spit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- a rotary knob to adjust the period of cooking;
- and
- where, for a given number of degrees of turn of the rotary knob, more time is incremented to the period of cooking if the rotary knob is turned at a given rate, than if the rotary knob is turned at a rate slower than the given rate.
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A rotisserie food cooker comprising:
- a rotary driven spit;
- a cooking heat source adjacent to the spit;
- a control regulating both the rotary driven spit and the heat source;
- the control able to be set for a predetermined period of cooking;
- the control able to be set for an automatic period of warming food after the period of cooking by leaving the rotary driven spit on and lowering the amount of heat generated by the cooking heat source;
- a rotary knob to adjust the period of cooking;
- a sound producing element;
- and
- where rotating the rotary knob causes sounds to be produced from the sound producing element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.