US 11,944,235 B2
Autonomous apparatus for cooking food, and corresponding method
Giuseppe de' Longhi, Treviso (IT); and Gianpaolo Trevisan, San Martino Buon Albergo (IT)
Assigned to DE'LONGHI APPLIANCES S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO, Treviso (IT)
Filed by DE'LONGHI APPLIANCES S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO, Treviso (IT)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/853,876.
Application 17/853,876 is a continuation of application No. 16/323,510, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2017/069556, filed on Aug. 2, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 102016000082900 (IT), filed on Aug. 5, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330749 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 37/06 (2006.01); A47J 37/08 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/0641 (2013.01) [A47J 37/0842 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An autonomous apparatus for cooking food comprising:
a support body, an openable lid, an internal container which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body, the internal container being open at the top, at least one heating device and at least one air flow generator element to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container, said at least one air flow generator element being connected to a return exit, the return exit cooperating, when said lid is in the closed position on said container, with a peripheral edge of said container to remove said flow of air from said container and to channel the flow of air toward said at least one heating device via an annular pipe, and wherein the annular pipe has two ends symmetrically connected to said at least one air flow generator element.