Electric toaster with expanding tray walls

Details Electric toaster with expanding tray walls Electric toaster with expanding tray walls

2006-05-23

2006-05-23

Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

Automatic control

C099S3290RT, C099S331000, C099S385000, C099S389000, C099S391000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07047871

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus10for a toaster appliance having at least one circular-like carriage14forming a support element for food articles12such as tortillas, pita, naan and other flatbreads during a warming/toasting session. The support walls16, 20are comprised of wire mesh18with one side having a partial lower peripheral rim or lip38positioned flange extending thereinbetween acting as a carriage for the food article. Diametrically opposed is the other support wall that is spaced over the depending flange38extending from the other wall. Adjacent coplanar posts or pins36extend from the mesh-walls16, 20traveling in and through guide tracks40located at each end of the interior housing24with tensioning members34fastened to the post distal ends keeping the support walls compressed. One of the tracks40is of greater width thereby providing for variable thickness of the food article, which is held by the tensioned mesh walls16, 20. One rail of the interiorly positioned track40is substantially vertical while the other is angularly divergent so that when the tray is in the food article receiving position, the walls16, 20are spaced apart providing means for inserting and removing food articles12without engaging the mesh-like walls.

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