Patent ID: 11859828
Assignee: THE STEELSTONE GROUP LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  A | IPC A  F

Claim 11:
12. A toaster oven comprising:
a cooking chamber that includes a side wall and a top wall, one of the side wall and the top wall being provided with an air inlet in communication with a cooking space of the cooking chamber, and the other of the side wall and the top wall being provided with an air outlet in communication with the cooking space;
an air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet disposed outside the cooking chamber; and
a fan that blows air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air passage,
wherein the air outlet includes:
a plurality of first elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in a first direction that is parallel to the top wall, wherein one of the first elongated air outlet holes is greater in longitudinal length to width ratio than another one of the first elongated air outlet holes that is disposed between the one ofthe first elongated air outlet holes and the side wall, wherein each of the first elongated air outlet holes is a slot; and
a plurality of second elongated air outlet holes that are arranged in the first direction and distant from the plurality of the first elongated air outlet holesin a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and that is parallel to the top wall,

wherein the toaster oven further comprises a firsta irguide surface extending upward from the top wall, and a second air guide surface extending upward from the topwall,
wherein the one of the first elongated air outlet holes is configured to change, to a downward direction that passes through the top wall, a direction of air that is guided by the first air guide surface and the top wall,
wherein the second airguide surface isdisposed between each of one of the first elongated air outlet holes and the first air guide surface,and one of the second elongated air outlet holes,
wherein a distance, in the second direction, between the first airguide surface and the second air guide surface is increased as each of the first air guide surface and the second air guide surface is distant from the side wall, and
wherein the first airguide surface is disposed between one of the first elongated air outlet holes and one of the second elongated air outlet holes.