Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1996-08-28
1997-08-05
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99329P, 99329RT, 99385, 99389, 99391, 219492, 219521, A47J 3708, H05B 102
Patent
active
056531583
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to the general technical field of electrical appliances intended for toasting, or reheating, and/or cooking of foods having various thicknesses by the intermediary of heating assemblies intended to grip the foods, such as toasters, meat grills or even reheating ovens.
The present invention concerns an electric appliance for the toasting and reheating of foods, in particular a toaster, comprising a housing with two toasting subassemblies mounted to be relatively displaceable one opposite the other to form a toasting slot of variable width capable of being adapted to the thickness of the article to be toasted, a bread rack axially movable in the slot between a raised position for receiving the article to be toasted and a lowered toasting position, as well as a means for controlling displacement of the bread rack associated with an actuating means capable of assuring relative displacement of the two toasting subassemblies.
PRIOR ART
It is already known, for example in the patent application FR-A-2454788, to make an electric toaster of the type mentioned previously, comprising a housing with two toasting subassemblies mounted to be relatively movable opposite one another.
Each toasting subassembly is constituted by a receiver, a heating element such as a rod of refractory material upon which is wound a heating resistance, and a grill intended to come into contact with the slice of bread to be toasted in order to clamp it against the grill of the second subassembly.
The relative displacement of the toasting subassemblies is assured by a system having two branches articulated like scissors associated with the grills, and disposed laterally on the frame of the appliance.
Such a toaster is entirely satisfactory when the width of the toasting slot delimited between the two toasting subassemblies does not exceed 35 or even 40 mm. This distance corresponds to standard toasters which are widely available on the market.
For such widths of the toasting slot, the displacement distance of the two toasting subassemblies is sufficiently limited so that no particular problem of blockage, rupture, twisting, etc. of the movable pieces occurs. It is then possible to benefit fully from the advantage of such toasters, which because of the mobility of the heating resistances permit maintenance of a constant distance between the article to be toasted and the heating element regardless of the thickness of the article.
This constitutes an element of simplification of the totality of possibilities of regulation of the appliance and leads to a better mastery of the result and the quality of the toasting, and consequently improves overall the homogeneity of the toasting.
The prior art systems, such as those described previously, cannot however be perfectly suitable when it is desired to furnish a toaster having a variable capacity of large width, that is of which the toasting slot can permit the introduction of slices of bread or baked articles having a thickness greater than 35 or 40 mm.
In effect, in such a case, the displacement of the toasting subassembly or subassemblies should be effectuated over a relatively large distance, even though because of the presence on each subassembly of several elements, the subassemblies already have a significant weight.
If one wishes at the same time to obtain an electric appliance, such as a toaster, of reduced size and limited cost, it proves necessary to envision other solutions.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention aims precisely at remedying the various difficulties mentioned previously and furnishing an electric toasting or reheating appliance permitting facilitation of displacement of the toasting subassemblies regardless of the length of this displacement without for that matter increasing the space taken up by, and the cost of, the appliance, all while reducing the risks of operating failures.
Another object of the invention aims at furnishing an electric toasting or reheating appliance permitting a particularly b
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Balandier Jean-Marie
Rousseau Alain
Seb S.A.
Simone Timothy F.
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