Patent ID: 8677890

Claim:
A divider for a food steaming apparatus, said divider intended to extend from a central region to a peripheral region of a tubular body adapted to be supported over a pot in which water is boiled to generate steam that is to pass through a perforated food support within the tubular body, said divider comprising a plurality of dividing walls extending from a central region to a peripheral region, wherein a major part of the area of each wall is provided with multiple perforations passing therethrough, and wherein at least one opening extends along the lower edge region of each dividing wall with a deflector flap that extends at an incline to a deflector wall having an operatively upper edge joined to the top of the opening and an operatively lower edge spaced circumferentially therefrom such that rising gases that in use contact the deflector flap follow the upwards incline thereof thereby acquiring a circumferential component to the direction of movement.