Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1999-09-29
2000-06-20
Alexander, Reginald L.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
99473, 126369, 126 20, A47J 2704
Patent
active
06076452&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for heating and/or cooking food. More specifically, the invention relates to an apparatus of this type for cooking food for children.
It is well-known nowadays to carry out mixings and to heat, either concomitantly or consecutively, the food mixture thus obtained within one and the same device. A device of this type has, for example, been described in document FR-A-2,586,922. Basically, this device is composed of a steam generator, producing steam, particularly by Joule effect, and of a container for receiving the food to be mixed and heated. According to the teachings of this document, the steam is conveyed via a pipe to the centre and to the bottom of said container receiving the food to be mixed and heated in the proximity of a rotary blade for mixing. Therefore, through the dual effect of conveying steam to the bottom of said container and the rotation of the mixing blade, providing a degree of evening-out of the temperature, the desired result is achieved. However, this device allows this result to be achieved only when mixing is actually required. Moreover, the volume occupied by the central steam-supply pipe is relatively large, thereby restricting the capacity of the device in question.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to propose a much simpler device which has no steam-supply pipe, allowing homogeneous heating of the food even in the absence of a mixing stage and also simplifying the subsequent stage of washing and cleaning said container.
According to the invention, the device for heating and/or cooking food, comprises: through apertures to allow the steam through, said container being reversibly sealed at its upper end with a removable lid.
The invention is characterized: steam generator to communicate with the inside of said container, and particularly of the cooking basket; proximity of its base; substantially near the top end of the wall defining it.
In other words, the invention consists in providing a forced circuit for conveying the steam so that, given the respective positioning of the steam-inlet and -outlet holes inside and outside the container, to form a type of baffle in which the steam will pass through the entire cooking basket, the inlet hole actually being located above the cooking basket. Thus, in order to be able to escape, the steam has to pass through the contents of the cooking basket before rising along the side wall defining the container and thus gaining access to the outlet hole provided in the upper end of said container, as required.
In this manner, food is heated and cooked homogeneously without the need for a mixing stage when, moreover, this is not required.
Given the absence of any valve, it will be understood that cooking takes place at atmospheric pressure.
The device according to the invention may also include a mixing blade located in the base of the container and driven in rotation by means of an electric motor, in a completely conventional manner.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The way in which the invention may be implemented and the advantages arising therefrom will become more clearly apparent from the following illustrative embodiment which is given by way of indication and not by way of limitation in support of the appended figures.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic representation in perspective of the container according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic representation in section of said container.
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic representation in section of the device according to the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The device according to the invention basically includes a bowl or container (1), typically made from transparent polysulphone, this bowl having symmetry of revolution, particularly cylindrical symmetry of revolution. It includes a base (12) via which it rests on the device according to the invention. It also comprises a gripping handle (2) and a removable lid (3). This lid includes fastening tabs (4) for interacting with corresponding project
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Alexander Reginald L.
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