Patent ID: 11930960
Assignee: SENSIO INC.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  F | IPC A  F

Claim 0:
1. A cooking apparatus comprising:
a housing defining an internal chamber, wherein the internal chamber includes a cooking portion;
a single cooking container configured and adapted to be removably received in the cooking portion of the internal chamber, wherein the single cooking container includes a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom surface, wherein the single cooking container defines a cooking volume between the front wall, back wall, and the bottom surface;
at least two heating elements positioned within the cooking portion of the internal chamber; and
a divider configured and adapted to be removably received in the single cooking container to divide the cooking volume into two separate cooking sections, wherein the bottom surface and at least one of the front wall or the back wall includes a first set of spaced apart protrusions longitudinally aligned with one another and longitudinally separated from one another by longitudinal gaps along the bottom surface and at least one of the front wall or the back wall, and the bottom surface and at least one of the front wall or the back wall includes a second set of spaced apart protrusions longitudinally aligned with one another and longitudinally separated from one another by longitudinal gaps along the bottom surface and at least one of the front wall or the back wall,
wherein the first and second sets of spaced apart protrusions include bottom surface protrusions separate from the front wall and the back wall, the bottom surface protrusions are parallel to one another and longitudinally offset from one another along the bottom surface,
wherein the first and second sets of spaced apart protrusions are parallel to one another and are configured and adapted to hold the divider in place when it is in the single cooking container such that the first set of spaced apart protrusions are located on an opposite side of the divider than the second set of spaced apart protrusions.