US 5,493,955 A · Automatic breadmaker with laterally-opening wide door

Abstract

An automatic breadmaker has a floor, enclosing surfaces and a door which form the oven chamber. The door swings horizontally to create a front opening extending substantially to the oven floor, thus facilitating "wide-side" insertion and removal of the baking pan. When closed, the door extends upwardly from along the oven floor and rearwardly to a position directly above the pan. With the door open, insertion and removal of the pan is further facilitated by the resulting wide-mouth configuration. The pan has two driven kneading members spaced along its bottom for mixing dough. The loaf made by the new breadmaker is of normal configuration, has a risen topside extending along its length and has a size, shape and overall appearance closely resembling that of a normal bakery loaf.

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Dependent claims

In an automatic breadmaker of the type having:

drive means;
an oven chamber formed by a floor and by top, front and side enclosing surfaces, the top surface at a first level above the floor;
an access door which includes at least one of the enclosing surfaces;
and a pan in the oven chamber with a kneading member therein linked to the drive means, the improvement wherein:
the access door includes the front surface and at least major portions of each of the top surface and a first side surface each extending rearwardly from the front surface, the first side surface having a substantially vertical rear edge;
and
the access door is hinged along its rear edge for front opening without any door movement above the first level;
whereby the access door is laterally swingable to permit multi-directional access to the oven chamber with the access door away from the front of the breadmaker.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Automatic breadmaker with laterally-opening wide door

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Automatic breadmaker with laterally-opening wide door

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Abstract

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