Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Spit or impaling type
Utility Patent
2000-03-16
2001-01-02
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Spit or impaling type
C099S419000, C099S427000, C099S446000, C099S450000, C099S482000
Utility Patent
active
06167800
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention is related to an oven and in particular to one having a roasting cage which can be taken out of the casing as required thereby facilitating the removal of the food on the roasting cage and preventing the user from being injured by the hot casing of the oven.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Referring to
FIGS. 1 and 2
thereof, the conventional oven generally includes a casing
3
, a stick
1
and a pair of forked members
2
. The stick
1
is formed with a first recess
11
at one end and a second recess
12
at the other. The forked member
2
has a tubular body and a wing-like member
21
mounted on the tubular body. The tubular body of the forked member
2
is fitted over the stick
1
and fixedly mounted on the stick
1
by a screw
22
extending through the tubular body to bear against the stick
1
. The stick
1
together with the forked members
2
is mounted within the casing
3
, with its two ends engaged with two fixed seats
31
and
33
. The fixed seat
33
is drivingly connected with a motor
30
. The stick
1
cannot be taken out of the casing
3
after the oven is assembled. Hence, one will easily be injured by the hot casing
3
when taking out a hot roasted chicken from an oven. Furthermore, it is difficult to take out or mount a chicken on the stick within the casing
3
thereby often causing the forked member
2
from disengaging from the chicken
10
and dropping down the chicken
10
and therefore making the chicken directly contact the heater to cause a fire accident. In addition, it will be very inconvenient to clean the interior of the oven so that the food residue will allure cockroaches, ants, mice, . . . etc. to enter into the oven thereby often spreading diseases inadvertently.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improvement in the structure of an oven which can obviate and mitigate the above-mentioned drawbacks.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is related to an improvement in the structure of an oven.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an oven includes a housing, two supporting plates mounted at two opposite inner sides of the housing, each of the supporting plates having an upper edge formed with a first recess at an intermediate portion of the upper edge and a second recess close to an outer end of the upper edge, a roasting cage having two circular discs at two opposite sides thereof, each of the circular discs provided with an outwardly extending axle at a center thereof and a plurality of slots at a circumferential edge thereof, and a plurality of sticks each being fitted between two aligned slots, the axle being configured to be received in any one of the first and second recesses, a driven gear fixedly mounted on an axle of one of the circular discs, a motor mounted on an inner side of the housing and provided with an output shaft on which is mounted a driving gear meshed with the driven gear, a heater fixedly mounted on an inner side of the housing, and a lid openably engaged with the housing.
It is the primary object of the present invention to provide an improved oven of which the roasting stick can be taken out of the casing as required thereby facilitating the removal of the food on the roasting stick and preventing the user from being injured by the hot casing.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved oven which can be easily cleaned and kept sanitary.
The foregoing objects and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts. Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
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A & J
Simone Timothy F.
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