Toaster with more varied toasting features and a safety control

Details Toaster with more varied toasting features and a safety control Toaster with more varied toasting features and a safety control

1999-09-02

2000-09-26

Simone, Timothy

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

Automatic control

99329P, 99329RT, 99331, 99337, 99342, 99385, 99389, 99391, 219492, 219521, A47J 3708, H05B 102, H05B 306

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ABSTRACT:
A toaster includes a housing having an upper wall with bagel half shaped openings; toasting chambers in the housing accessible through the openings and having bagel half shapes; a bread rack in each toasting chamber; inner/outer heating coils surrounding each toasting chamber; electric contacts in the housing for activation of the heating coils; a raising/lowering mechanism connected with the bread racks for moving the bread racks up and down, and including first and second lateral portions connected to opposite ends of the bread racks; first and second guides mounted to the housing for guiding the first and second lateral portions with a small tolerance, a yoke housing connected with the first lateral portion and slidably movable relative to the housing, a lever slidably moving the yoke housing; a yoke slidably movable relative to the yoke housing and closing the electric contacts when the bread racks and yoke are lowered, and a first spring biasing the yoke upwardly; an electromagnet holding the yoke in the lowered position; an input setting device for setting a toasting time and/or a desired food item; a microprocessor controlling the electromagnet to release the yoke after a predetermined cooking time and controlling activation of the heating coils in response to the input setting device; and LEDs on an outer surface visually indicating the toasting time progression.

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