US 11,930,958 B2
Hot air fryer cooking appliance with a scalable cooking capacity
Guillaume Prieto, Marsannay le Bois (FR); and Jérémy Cornu, Lyons (FR)
Assigned to SEB S.A., (FR)
Filed by SEB S.A., Ecully (FR)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/359,302.
Claims priority of application No. 1852455 (FR), filed on Mar. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0290062 A1, Sep. 26, 2019
Int. Cl. A47J 37/06 (2006.01); A47J 37/10 (2006.01); A47J 45/06 (2006.01); A47J 45/07 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/0641 (2013.01) [A47J 37/108 (2013.01); A47J 45/061 (2013.01); A47J 45/07 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hot air fryer cooking appliance comprising:
a main body;
a vessel that is removable from the main body and having a first cooking volume configured to accommodate a first quantity of food;
a basket that is removable from the vessel and having a second cooking volume smaller than the first cooking volume and configured to accommodate a second quantity of food less than the first quantity of food, and
a manipulating system having a configuration changing system that is adapted to manipulate the vessel incorporating the basket at the same time, or to manipulate the basket alone, released and removed from the vessel, or to manipulate the vessel alone, released and removed from the basket, so as to allow a first mode of cooking foods in the basket incorporated in the vessel, thereby using the second cooking volume, and a second mode of cooking foods directly in the vessel, the basket being extracted from the vessel, the vessel configured to be manipulated via the manipulating system without the basket, thereby using the first cooking volume.