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US 5,526,734 AGranted
Apparatus for cooking bagels
AssigneePMI International Corporation
InventorRobert G. Harrison
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Abstract
Bagel cooking apparatus which includes a casing divided into a lower zone in which uncooked bagels can be boiled and an upper, oven zone for subsequently baking the boiled bagels. A cam mechanism with an externally accessible operator is provided to move a bagel-supporting structure housed in the casing between the lower, boiler zone and the upper, oven zone. A control system allows a user to independently control the operation of the bagel cooker during the boiling and baking steps.
Claims14
Bagel cooking apparatus which comprises:
- a casing;
- a boiler zone in the lower reaches of said casing;
- a first heater means in the lower reaches of the casing for heating water in said boiler zone;
- an oven zone in the upper reaches of the casing;
- a second, convection heater means in said oven zone;
- an open-topped bagel support means;
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- a user-actuatable means for lowering said bagel support means to said boiler zone and for elevating said support means to said oven zone;
- said convection heater being so positioned above said bagel support means that, with said support means elevated to said oven zone, air heated by the convection heater is discharged directly from said convection heater into said support means.
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Bagel cooking apparatus which comprises:
- a casing;
- a boiler section in said casing, said boiler section comprising container means for water in which said bagels can be boiled;
- an oven section in said casing;
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- means for collecting condensate formed during the operation of said apparatus;
- said condensate collecting means comprising:
- a receptable which is removably supported from a wall of said casing and can be reached from the exterior of said casing and conduit means providing fluid communication between the interior of said inner casing and said receptacle.
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Bagel cooking apparatus which comprises:
- a casing;
- a boiler zone in said casing;
- an oven zone in the casing;
- a bagel support means which is immobilizable in said boiler zone to boil bagels supported thereon and is subsequently immobilizable in said oven zone to bake the boiled bagels;
- a user-actuatable means which is accessible from the exterior of the casing for moving said bagel support means from a location where uncooked bagels can be placed on said support means to said boiler zone, then to said oven zone, and thereafter to a location where baked bagels can be removed from the support means;
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- means for collecting condensate formed during the operation of said apparatus, said condensate collecting means comprising a receptacle and vent conduit means providing fluid communication between said boiler zone and said receptacle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.