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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127666 | Toaster with mechanism for raising carriage above an ejection position An electric toaster with a toasting carriage which is automatically raised from a toasting position to a first ejection position has a manually-operated mechanism for raising the carriage above the first ejection position to assist in removing smaller items from the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7217906 | Apparatus and method of toasting bread-type food products A dual function heating and toasting apparatus is provided for radiantly heating or surface toasting bread-type food products. The apparatus includes a housing defining a heating/toasting chamber. A generally vertically oriented, center fixed heating platen is dispo... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7047871 | Electric toaster with expanding tray walls Apparatus 10 for a toaster appliance having at least one circular-like carriage 14 forming a support element for food articles 12 such as tortillas, pita, naan and other flatbreads during a warming/toasting session. The support walls 16, 20 | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036424 | High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy fr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6973871 | Electrical toaster An electrical toaster includes a case unit having a laterally extending supporting wall and defining a heating chamber that is disposed below the supporting wall, at least a lower slot that is formed in the supporting wall and that is in spatial communication with t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6868775 | Bread toaster with motor-driven toast rack A toaster includes a toaster housing having a toaster slot for the bread slice disposing therein, a toasting device for toasting the bread slice in the toaster slot, and a toast racking arrangement including a bread supporting rack movably mounted in the toaster slo... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6829983 | Electric toaster The invention relates to a toaster in which the housing (1) comprises: a toasting chamber (2); a toast rack (5), which can move vertically inside said chamber (2) between an eject position and a toasting position; a driver (6), whi... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6668706 | Toaster A bread toaster comprising a housing and at least one slot opening for receiving an article to be toasted. The bread is progressively traversed by a linear heat source in a pair of passes. A first pass is at a rate which is sufficient to drive moisture fr... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6595111 | Electric toaster In an electric toaster, a power switch unit is switched by a actuator provided on a support seat, which is movable together with a carriage, from an OFF-mode, where power to an electric heating unit is cut-off, to an ON-mode, where power is supplied to th... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6584889 | High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls th... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6571687 | Electric toaster An electric toaster includes a power switch unit driven by an electromagnet, for holding a spring-loaded carriage mounted in a toasting compartment when the carriage is moved from an upper position to a lower position, so as to switch from an OFF-mode, wh... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6546844 | Tortilla toaster-like warmer appliance A tortilla warming appliance for warming one or more tortillas in a manner similar to a toaster. The tortilla warming appliance comprises a collapsible tortilla cage for each tortilla and a push-down, pop-up, arc-shaped cradle assembly slidably coupled in... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6481341 | Anti-burn toaster A toaster mechanism includes a base, a carriage movable relative to the base and including a hook and a switch bar, a first switch associated with heating elements of the toaster and supported by the base and being activated by the switch bar, a timer-dea... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6431057 | Toaster A toaster includes a toasting rack moveable between upper and lower positions. A lever arm with a handle is operable to move the toasting rack between the upper and lower positions. A user releasable latch retains the toaster rack in the upper position. W... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6415709 | Lifting mechanism for a toaster A lifting mechanism for a toaster comprises a first arm (2) pivotally mounted about a first horizontal axis (8) for movement between a lowered position and a raised position; a second arm (3) pivotally mounted about a second horizontal axis (9) spaced fro... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6382084 | Electric toaster In an otherwise well-known electric pop-up toaster, an auxiliary power switch is provided and is arranged to be opened by a timer after each toasting cycle. This ensures, in contrast to the well-known toaster arrangements, that power is interrupted to hea... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6357343 | Toaster A bread toaster comprising a housing and at least one slot opening for receiving an article to be toasted. The bread is progressively traversed by a linear heat source in a pair of passes. A first pass is at a rate which is sufficient to drive moisture fr... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6343543 | Household electric toaster A low cost toaster having a metal body and plastic end panels. The end panels have cooling inlet vents near their lower ends and the top wall of the metal body has air outlet vents. Ambient air admitted through the inlet vents flows upwardly through the t... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6311608 | Toaster with more varied toasting features and a safety control 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 ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6311609 | Food heating appliance particularly useful as a bread toaster A food handling appliance particularly useful as a toaster, includes a food compartment for receiving a food article to be heated, at least one heating element (43b) located laterally of the food compartment for heating a food article therein, and a heat ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6298772 | Toaster A toaster having a ferromagnetic armature movable between an engaged position adjacent to a solenoid and closing a switch and a disengaged position away from the solenoid and opening the switch. A displacement assembly is adapted to move from an up positi... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6267044 | Batch toaster A batch type toaster includes a cool remote waiting zone and an intrinsically controlled transport mechanism that retains the bread in said waiting zone while the toasting zone is heating to optimum toasting conditions and subsequently moves the bread int... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6250212 | Toaster having carriage-lift mechanism A toaster for facilitating removal of food items by allowing the bread carriage to be raised from a loading position to a raised position. A toaster is provided having a housing frame having an upper portion defining at least one opening for receiving an ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6244166 | Child proof toaster with touch pad controls A child proof toaster with touch pad controls including a housing having a generally rectangular configuration. The housing has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, opposed side walls and an interior. The top wall has a pair of slots form... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6240834 | Automatic resetting safety cut-out device for toaster sliding support blockage An electric cut-off device for a toaster is disclosed including a housing, a timer for setting a toasting time, the timer including a core and an armature attracted by the core upon its actuation, a slidable support mounted for slidable movement within th... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6230611 | Electric toaster fitted with an electromagnet-and-switch unit A toaster is disclosed including a main frame with a toasting compartment including an electrical resistance heater, a carriage mounted for reciprocation within the toasting compartment so that the bread product to be toasted can be loaded when the carria... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6205910 | Toaster assembly and method for toasting bread products A toaster/heater assembly for toasting and heating food products has a housing containing a frame, and a heating chamber having a toaster/heater ensemble which heats two compartments of the chamber. The ensemble has a middle unit and two side units, each ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6129007 | Electric toaster An electric automatic pop-up toaster has a carriage and a pivotably connected manually operative arm for moving the carriage to a lowermost position for toasting in well-known manner. At the beginning of each toasting cycle, the arm is horizontal and a la... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6123012 | Toaster with more varied toasting features and a safety control 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 ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6116149 | Toaster A toaster has a guide mechanism for a slice support (7), which mechanism comprises a substantially U-shaped rod (15) having a central portion (16) parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slice support and having two arms (17, 18) which are each supp... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6116148 | Multiple tier vertical flow toaster A space-saving multiple tier vertical flow toaster for simultaneously toasting items loaded vertically from the top of the toaster. The first items loaded into the toaster pass through an upper tier and are arrested in a lower tier. The next items loaded ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6105486 | Household electric toaster A low cost toaster having a metal body and plastic end panels. The end panels have cooling inlet vents near their lower ends and the top wall of the metal body has air outlet vents. Ambient air admitted through the inlet vents flows upwardly through the t... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6080963 | Toaster oven with automatic feed A toaster for everyday household use includes a conveyor which carries items to be toasted past electrical heating panels. The toaster has an entrance wherein the items are inserted horizontally from a feed tray onto the conveyor. The feed tray being a co... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6058829 | Food preparation device A food preparation device is provided with a toaster portion and an attached slicing mechanism. The device may be used to prepare toasted bagels and other food products. The toaster portion and the slicing mechanism are arranged to provide a compact const... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6014925 | Toaster and process for mounting electromagnetic actuator therein A toaster comprises a housing (1) enclosing a toasting chamber (2) in which is movably mounted a bread carrier (4) between an ejection position and a toasting position in which it is retained by an electromagnetic actuating device (5) comprising a control... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5947006 | Toaster with multiple positions for the bread carrier In a toaster having a housing, a bread-supporting carriage movably mounted in the housing for movement between a toasting position, a temperature-maintaining position, a rest position and a supplementary raised position, and a spring coupled with the carr... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5924355 | Household electric toaster A low cost toaster having a metal body and plastic end panels. The end panels have cooling inlet vents near their lower ends and the top wall of the metal body has air outlet vents. Ambient air admitted through the inlet vents flows upwardly through the t... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5918532 | Toaster A toaster comprises a housing (1) enclosing a carriage (4) movable between an ejection position and a toasting position to which it can be brought by a handle (6) connected to one end (7) of the carriage (4) by a driver (8) secured to a finger (11) adapte... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5901638 | Toaster with means for selection of two bread discharge positions A bread toaster comprising: a frame; a bread-supporting carriage mounted in the frame for vertical movement between a toasting portion and a first bread discharge position, the carriage having an extension; first cushioning means for cushioning arrival of... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5901639 | Temperature sensitive timing assembly for toaster appliance A temperature sensitive timing assembly for a toaster appliance includes a single bimetallic element having a first portion connected to a support bracket, which in turn is mounted on a mounting bracket for pivotal movement relative to the mounting bracke... | 05/11/1999 |
