US 12,029,345 B2
Countertop cooking system
Ethan T. Brown, Cambridge, MA (US); Joshua D. Anthony, North Billerica, MA (US); Nathaniel R. Lavins, Cambridge, MA (US); Christopher T. Martin, North Attleboro, MA (US); John M. Steinmetz, Philadelphia, PA (US); and David Hensel, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to SharkNinja Operating, LLC, Needham, MA (US)
Filed by SharkNinja Operating LLC, Needham, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/385,246.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/056,970, filed on Jul. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0022690 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 37/06 (2006.01); F24C 7/04 (2021.01); F24C 7/06 (2006.01); F24C 15/32 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/0641 (2013.01) [A47J 37/0629 (2013.01); F24C 7/046 (2013.01); F24C 7/067 (2013.01); F24C 15/325 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooking system positionable on a support surface, the cooking system comprising:
a housing including at least a top wall, bottom wall, a rear wall, and side walls, the housing defining a hollow chamber including a cooking chamber and a convecting chamber;
a fan shroud mounted within the hollow chamber and having a front shroud wall, a rear shroud wall, and two shroud sidewalls each connected perpendicularly to each of the front and rear shroud walls, wherein each of the front shroud wall, the rear shroud wall, and the two shroud sidewalls extend from the top wall to the bottom wall, wherein the fan shroud forms a partition that separates the cooking chamber and the convecting chamber and includes a through hole in the front shroud wall;
a guard positioned in overlapping arrangement with the through hole, the guard including a plurality of through holes;
a convection heater disposed within the convecting chamber; and
at least one fluidly communicable opening between said convecting chamber and the cooking chamber positioned in each of the two shroud sidewalls.