US 11,859,828 B2
Toaster oven
Binyumen Itzkowitz, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Kalman M. Wertzberger, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Assigned to The Steelstone Group LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed by The Steelstone Group LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/944,845.
Application 17/944,845 is a continuation of application No. 16/751,563, filed on Jan. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,448,404.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/796,446, filed on Jan. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0003394 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. F24C 15/32 (2006.01); A21B 3/04 (2006.01); A21B 1/26 (2006.01); A21B 1/24 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01)
CPC F24C 15/322 (2013.01) [A21B 1/245 (2013.01); A21B 1/26 (2013.01); A21B 3/04 (2013.01); A47J 37/0641 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toaster oven comprising:
a cooking chamber that includes a side wall and a top wall, one ofthe side wall and the top wall being provided with an air inlet in communication with a cooking space of the cooking chamber, and the other of the side wall and the top wall being provided with an air outlet in communication with the cooking space;
an air passage between the air inlet and the airoutlet disposed outside the cooking chamber; and
a fan that blows air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air passage,
wherein the air outlet includes:
a plurality of first elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in a first direction that is parallel to the top wall, wherein one of the first elongated air outlet holes is greater in longitudinal length to width ratio than another one of the first elongated airoutlet holes that is disposed between the one ofthe first elongated a it outlet holes a nd the side wall, wherein each of the first elongated air outlet holes is a slot; and
a plurality of second elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in the first direction and distant from the pluralityof the first elongated air outlet holesin a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and that is parallelto the topwall,
wherein the toaster oven further comprises a first air guide surface extending upward from the top wall, and a second air guide surface extending upward from the top wall,
wherein a distance, in a width direction ofthe one of the first elongated air outlet holes, between the first air guide surface and the one of the first elongated air outlet holes is decreased as each of the first air guide surface and the one of the first elongated air outlet holes is distant from the side wall, the width direction being perpendicular to a longitudinal direction ofthe one of the first elongated air outlet holes,
wherein the second airguide surface isdisposed between each of one of the first elongated air outlet holes and the first air guide surface,and one of the second elongated air outlet holes,
wherein a distance, in the second direction, between the first air guide surface and the second air guide surface is increased as each of the first air guide surface and the second air guide surface is distant from the side wall, and
wherein the first air guide surface is disposed between one of the first elongated air outlet holes and one of the second elongated air outlet holes.