Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1978-01-16
1979-02-20
Christian, Leonard D.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
219489, 337361, A47J 2762
Patent
active
041400488
ABSTRACT:
A toast load selector mechanism for use with toasters accommodating varying toast loads of from one to a plurality of bread slices or other food items for toasting and having a toasting time interval timer including a manually operable brownness control knob for adjusting the toasting time interval, the brownness control movable through an adjustment range between a first position setting a minimum time interval for toasting a minimum toast load to the lightest brown condition and a second position setting a maximum time interval for toasting the maximum toast load to the darkest brown condition. The toast load selector mechanism comprises a toast load selector member which is mounted concentrically with the brownness control knob, the toast load selector member defining first and second stops limiting the adjustment range of the brownness control to a subrange applicable to a given toast load selected by the toast load selector member. The toast load selector member is preferably held in yielding detent engagement in each of the toast load positions and indicia are provided for indicating the selected toast load position. Indicia indicating light or dark settings of the brownness control knob preferably applied to the toast load selector member adjacent the first and second stops.
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Grove Lawrence L.
Snyder Paul V.
Christian Leonard D.
Cullen John F.
General Electric Company
Platt Leonard J.
Powers George R.
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