×

Oven using structured air

  • US 10,088,172 B2
  • Filed: 07/29/2016
  • Issued: 10/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. An oven comprising:

  • a housing sealable by a door to create a cooking cavity, the cooking cavity providing a lower wall and opposed upper wall separated by vertical sidewalls including a sidewall formed by the door, the upper wall providing an upper plenum receiving air at a plenum entrance and conducting the air to a plurality of openings distributed over a lower surface of the upper plenum;

    a blower receiving air from the cooking cavity and blowing the air into the upper plenum for discharge through the openings;

    a heater for heating the air before discharge through the openings;

    wherein the openings are adapted to produce elongate fans of air diverging along a plurality of horizontally spaced, parallel vertical planes with substantially no overlap between adjacent fans of air within the cooking cavity, each elongate fan extending substantially a full distance between two sidewalls; and

    wherein the fans include a set of interconnected columns and sheets of air wherein the columns are adapted to penetrate temperature gradients surrounding food positioned beneath the upper plenum.

View all claims
  • 2 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×