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US 2002/0152898 A1Published application
Flat bread and tortilla warmer
AssigneeHP Intellectual Corp.
InventorsCraig A. DuBois, Joseph J. Laskowski, Charles Z. Krasznai
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Abstract
A flat bread and tortilla warmer in which a pair of spring biased rollers are rotatably mounted in a housing. Roller heating elements in the housing heat the rollers. The rollers pinch a flat bread in between for simultaneously heating the flat bread and moving it through a portion of the housing. A second set of spaced heating elements may be disposed below the roller heating elements for warming the flat bread after it passes through the rollers.
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A flat bread warmer comprising:
- a housing;
- a pair of opposing rollers rotatably mounted in said housing;
- and
- heating elements mounted in said housing for heating at least one or the opposing rollers, said opposing rollers being spring biased toward each other to pinch a flat bread in between for simultaneously heating the flat bread and moving the flat bread through at least a portion of said housing.
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A flat bread warmer comprising:
- a housing;
- a pair of generally parallel opposed rollers mounted in said housing for rotation about a horizontal axis in opposite directions, said rollers being spring biased toward each other to pinch a flat bread therebetween and move the flat bread through at least a portion of said housing;
- a heating element associated with each roller and mounted in said housing in proximity to its associated roller for heating its associated roller;
- at least one set of spaced lower heating elements mounted in said housing below said rollers for heating said flat bread after it passes through said rollers;
- and
- a motor mounted to said housing and connected to said rollers for rotating said rollers.
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A method of warming flat bread comprising:
- providing a pair of opposed counter-rotating rollers;
- heating each of said rollers by a proximate heating element;
- and
- pinching said flat bread between said heated rollers and substantially simultaneously heating said flat bread and moving said flat bread through said rollers.
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A flat bread warmer comprising:
- a housing;
- a pair of opposing heating rollers rotatably mounted in the housing for contacting and heating a flat bread introduced between the opposing heating rollers;
- and
- heating elements mounted in the housing for heating the opposing heating rollers, wherein at least one of the heating elements is located inside a corresponding one of the opposing heating rollers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.