Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1996-11-21
1997-07-08
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99326, 99329P, 99329RT, 99389, 99391, 99401, 219481, 219489, 219492, 219521, A47J 3708, H05B 102, H05B 306
Patent
active
056449747
ABSTRACT:
An electric toaster having an automatic resetting heat reduction assembly. The toaster includes one or more cavities to receive bagels, bread, or other food products, and a plurality of heating elements located within the cavities to toast the food products. A carriage assembly movable between a raised nontoasting position and a lowered toasting position lowers and raises the food products into and out of the toasting cavities. When lowered to the toasting position, the carriage assembly activates a heat activation assembly which completes an electrical circuit between a power source and the heating elements, thereby energizing the heating elements to toast the food products. The toaster also includes a heat reduction assembly settable between an original full heat position and a depressed reduced heat position. When the heat activation assembly is activated and the heat reduction assembly is in the original full heat position, the heating elements are energized wherein all of the heating elements operate at full heat such that both sides of the food products are evenly toasted. When the heat activation assembly is activated and the heat reduction assembly is moved to the depressed reduced heat position, the heating elements are energized wherein selected heating elements operate at full heat and other selected heating elements operate at a reduced heat such that one side of the food products is toasted more than the other side. The heat reduction assembly automatically resets to the original full heat position at the end of a toasting cycle.
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Toastmaster-2-Slice Toaster Use and Care Guide for Models B720, B712, B710, date unknown.
Simone Timothy F.
Toastmaster Inc.
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