Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Convertible
Patent
1988-08-02
1989-12-26
Marcus, Stephen
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Convertible
99339, 99385, 99390, 99337, A47J 3708
Patent
active
048890421
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an electric household appliance which serves both as a toaster and as an oven, in particular an auxiliary oven.
Such an association of cooking functions in the same domestic appliance corresponds to the need to provide consumers with compact multipurpose electric household appliances.
Appliances combining the functions of toaster and oven have already been proposed. Certain types of appliances carry out toasting of bread and heating or cooking of dishes in the same compartment, in the same service position and with the same mode of heating. This arrangement has the merit of being compact but suffers from major disadvantages. In practice, toasting of bread calls for radiation having a short wavelength whereas heating and cooking require radiation of longer wavelength. Moreover, heating and cooking necessarily take place horizontally. However, in order to obtain good toasting distribution on both faces, the slice of bread must be placed in the vertical position. In consequence, appliances of this type are not capable of correctly performing both functions.
Other known appliances in which a toaster and an oven are combined have two compartments. The compartment in which toasting of the bread takes place is arranged vertically whilst the compartment which serves to heat the dishes is positioned horizontally. Appliances of this type correctly perform their two functions but have the disadvantage of being relatively cumbersome. The aim of the present invention is to solve the problem set forth in the foregoing by permitting perfect execution of the two oven and toaster functions with simple and reliable means while ensuring that the volume of the appliance remains as compact as possible.
In accordance with the invention, the domestic electric appliance which combines toasting of bread and cooking (or heating of dishes) is characterized in that it comprises separate elongated compartments which extend in parallel relation respectively for toasting and cooking, each of these compartments being provided with its own heating means, and that bearing means are also provided for tilting said compartments into positions located substantially at right angles to each other and corresponding to their normal respective operating positions.
Thus, while having a small overall size similar to that of the above-mentioned appliances which have only one compartment, this appliance achieves all the functions of an appliance having two compartments.
In a preferred embodiment, the compartments are placed in the vertical position for toasting bread and are placed horizontally by simple tilting of the appliance through 90.degree. for cooking or heating, this tilting movement being performed by making use of the bearing means which permit this stable double positioning of the appliance.
In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the appliance is provided with safety means for preventing the supply of electric power to the compartment which is not in its normal service position.
This accordingly avoids any abnormal or even dangerous use of the appliance or in other words prevents turn-on of the oven in the vertical position or the toaster in the horizontal position.
These safety means can consist in particular of switches placed in series with the push-button switches normally provided for manual control and said safety switches can be actuated either by the weight of the appliance or as a function of its orientation in space.
In another embodiment, the safety means are of the mechanical type, are controlled by gravity and are designed to neutralize the control push-buttons when the appliance is not in the normal position of utilization of the corresponding compartments.
Other particular features and advantages of the invention will further become apparent from the following description which now follows.
In the accompanying drawings which are given by way of example and not in any limiting sense, there has been shown one embodiment of the appliance in accordance with the invention and different saf
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Antoine Dominique
Hantz Dominique
Jackowski Bruno
Marcus Stephen
Peterson Christine A.
Seb S.A.
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