Oven and rotisserie

• US 6,509,549 B1
• Filed: 11/14/2001
• Issued: 01/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HP Intellectual Corp.
• Original Assignee: HP Intellectual Corp.
• Inventors: Krasznai, Charles Z., Sandor, James A., Otterman, Michael J., Chasen, James E., Garneau, Paul F.
• Primary Examiner(s): PELHAM, JOSEPH MOORE
• Application Number:
  US09/993,464
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 219/386, 219/388, 219/392, 219/411, 219/413, 219/494, 994/21.H, 993/31
• US Class Current: 219/386
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/041 with food supports rotating about a horizontal axis A47J37/042 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/049 Details of the food supports not specially adapted to one of the preceding types of food supports
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0623 Small-size cooking ovens, i.e. defining an at least partially closed cooking cavity A47J37/0605 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0629 with electric heating elements
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0664 Accessories
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/164 Rotisserie spits inside ovens

Abstract

An electric oven having a frame; top heating elements connected to the frame; a control connected to the heating elements; a food support rack removably connected to the frame between the top heating elements and a bottom of the frame; a drive comprising a motor connected to the frame; and a rotisserie skewer removably connected to the drive. The rotisserie skewer is located between the top heating elements and the bottom of the frame. The control has an oven temperature and broil selector, and a timer selector.

Claims

1. An electric oven comprising:

a frame;

top heating elements connected to the frame;

a control connected to the heating elements, the control comprising an oven temperature and broil selector, and a timer selector;

a food support rack removably connected to the frame between the top heating elements and a bottom of the frame;

a drive comprising a motor connected to the frame;

a rotisserie skewer removably connected to the drive, the rotisserie skewer being located between the top heating element and the frame bottom;

said frame comprising a food probe mounting area for removably storing a food temperature probe therein; and

a heat transfer member connected to the frame and extending between a food heating area of the frame and the food probe mounting area.

2. An electric oven as in claim 1 wherein the frame comprises a control section at a lateral section of the frame, the control and the drive being located in the control section.

3. An electric oven as in claim 2 wherein the frame comprises a door located at a front side of the frame, and the selectors are located at the front side of the frame at the lateral section.

4. An electric oven as in claim 1 wherein the frame forms a food heating area and a control housing area separated from each other by a wall on a lateral side of the food heating area, and wherein the wall comprises a hole therethrough, the drive being located in the control housing area at the hole with an end of the rotisserie skewer extending through the hole into the drive.

5. An electric oven as in claim 1 wherein the rotisserie skewer comprises a skewer rod and two end skewer members movably mounted to the rod.

6. An electric oven as in claim 5 wherein the skewer rod has a polygonal exterior surface along a majority of its length.

7. An electric oven as in claim 5 wherein at least one of the end skewer members comprises multiple skewer spikes and a leaf spring retainer.

8. An electric oven as in claim 7 wherein the leaf spring retainer has a deflectable cantilevered section with a hole therethrough, the skewer rod extending through the hole, and wherein a side of the hole is biased against the skewer rod to frictionally retain the end skewer member on the skewer rod.

9. An electric oven as in claim 8 wherein the end skewer member further comprises two ring member sections having center apertures therethrough and forming a groove therebetween, and wherein the skewer spikes have portions sandwiched between the ring member sections in the groove, and wherein the skewer rod is slidably located in the center apertures.

10. An electric oven as in claim 8 wherein the end skewer member further comprises a base slidably located on the skewer rod, and the leaf spring retainer comprises a section fixedly mounted to the base.

11. An electric oven as in claim 10 wherein the leaf spring retainer comprises a support section extending from the base opposite an end of the deflectable cantilevered section, wherein a user can pinch the cantilevered section and the support section towards each other to move the cantilevered section off of frictional retainment with the skewer rod.

12. An electric oven comprising:

a frame forming a cooking area;

heating elements connected to the frame in the cooking area;

a control connected to the heating elements; and

a food temperature probe adapted to be inserted into food, the food temperature probe being removably connected to the frame, wherein when the temperature probe is connected to the frame and not directly connected to food, the temperature probe is adapted to indicate temperature in the cooking area.

13. An electric oven as in claim 12 wherein the frame comprises a food probe mounting area for removably slidably storing the food temperature probe therein.

14. An electric oven as in claim 13 further comprising a heat transfer member connected to the frame and extending between the cooking area and the food probe mounting area.

15. An electric oven comprising:

a frame;

heating elements connected to the frame;

a control system for controlling the heating elements, the control system comprising a user interactive control section of the frame having an oven temperature selector;

a food temperature probe adapted to be inserted directly into food, the food temperature probe being removably connected to the frame at the user interactive control section of the frame;

said interactive control section comprises a food probe mounting area for removably slideably storing the food temperature probe therein; and

a heat transfer member connected to the frame and extending between a food cooking area and the food probe mounting area.