Contact toaster

Details Contact toaster Contact toaster

1998-01-29

1999-10-05

Lacey, David

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

With material pressing means

99372, 99373, 99385, 99386, 99389, 99443R, A47J 3708

Patent

active

059607041

ABSTRACT:
An improved contact toaster for heating sandwich buns and other food items features a housing containing a toasting chamber with an inlet and an outlet. The toasting chamber contains a pair of conveyor belts with a heated platen positioned between them. Each conveyor belt features a platen-facing portion so that two pathways are defined. Each conveyor belt also features a heat-distributing surface. Two auxiliary heaters are positioned so that one of each heats one of each of the platen-facing portions of the conveyor belts. One of each of a pair of tensioners engages one of each of the platen-facing portions of the conveyor belts so that each pathway tapers inward to a minimum thickness and then expands outward again. As a result, food items moving through the pathways via the conveyor belts are toasted on both surfaces and also absorb heat from both the platen and the conveyor belt surfaces in a sponge-like manner as they are compressed and released.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3646880 (1972-03-01), Norris
patent: 4121509 (1978-10-01), Baker et al.

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