Electric cooking appliance
AssigneeMoulinex S.A.
InventorRoger Weiss
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Abstract
The electric cooking appliance has a casing for receiving a removable vessel in which food to be cooked is placed. An electrical heating element is provided in the casing for heating the vessel. The supply of electrical power to the heating element is controlled by a control device including a supply switch and a manually settable control circuit arranged during the normal cooking phase to intermittently place the supply switch in its conducting state so that power is supplied to the heating element intermittently. Prior to the normal cooking phase, the control circuit maintains the supply switch continuously in its conducting state for an initial period of time which is independent of the manual setting of the control circuit.
Claims11
Electric cooking appliance comprising a casing, a removable vessel for holding food to be cooked positionable in said casing, an electrical heating element mounted in said casing for heating said removable vessel, means for supplying electrical power, and a control device for controlling the supply of electrical power from said means to the heating element, said control device comprising a supply switch which can adopt a conducting state in which electrical power is supplied to said element and a non-conducting state in which electrical power is not supplied to said element, and a manually settable control circuit for controlling the state of the supply switch and operable during a normal cooking phase to place the supply switch intermittently in its conducting state such that the element provides a predetermined average power for a predetermined period of time, wherein the control circuit is arranged prior to the normal cooking phase to maintain the supply switch continuously in its conducting state for an initial period of time which is independent of the manual setting of the control circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.