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US 4,297,568 AGranted
Cooking apparatus
AssigneeTokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisahi Okatsuka
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus may automatically cook according to a cooking program fed from a recording card. The apparatus includes a cooking program feeding mechanism detachably holding the recording card and reading a cooking program from the recording and by moving a detection bar with microswitches along the recording card.
Claims6
A cooking apparatus for automatically cooking according to a program fed from a recording medium comprising:
- a housing having an interior space in which food is cooked, and a front panel;
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- means secured to said front panel for receiving and reading a program on a recording medium to control heating of food including a support, a pair of spaced apart rockable holding members mounted for pivotable movement between a first position holding the recording medium for reading and a second position releasing the recording medium for insertion and removal, a recording medium receiving member for receiving said medium when it is inserted between said holding members and said support and falls onto said receiving member and detecting means movable along said medium to read a cooking program from said medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.