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US 5,605,090 AGranted
Bread maker
AssigneeFunai Techno-Systems Co., Ltd.
InventorsNobunori Mantani, Hisanobu Tanaka
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Abstract
A bread maker for baking a bread, having a memory for memorizing appropriate processing time data previously for kneading, rising and baking dough in accordance with a ratio of water to the weight of the ingredients. The data includes plural levels to be operated. In the bread maker, a ratio of the weight of water to the weight of the ingredients is calculated based on the weighed value, and which level the ratio belongs to is judged. Then, appropriate processing time for kneading, rising and baking in accordance with the ratio are set automatically, so that high-quality bread can be always made.
Claims16
A bread maker for making bread from ingredients and water, the bread maker comprising:
- a bread case for holding said ingredients and water;
- a kneading means for kneading the ingredients and water in the bread case;
- a heating means for heating the bread case for the purpose of baking;
- a first weighing means for weighing the ingredients following placement thereof into the bread case and prior to introduction of the water;
- a second weighing means for weighing the ingredients and the water together following introduction of the water into the bread case and calculating means for determining a weight of the water based on output from the first and second weighing means;
- a memorizing means for storing processing time data based on a ratio of a weight of the water to the weight of the ingredients, said processing time data including a kneading time period of a kneading process executable by the kneading means, a rising time period for a rising process for rising kneaded dough and a baking time period for a baking process executable by the heating means;
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- a control means for controlling the kneading means and the heating means based on said processing time data read from the memorizing means in accordance with the ratio of the weight of the water to the weight of the ingredients calculated by the calculating means to carry out the kneading process, the rising process and the baking process sequentially for making bread.
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A bread making apparatus comprising:
- a bread container for holding bread ingredients and water during kneading, rising and baking;
- kneading means for kneading the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- heating means for heating the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- a first weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients in the bread container prior to the addition of water;
- a second weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- calculating means for calculating a water/ingredients weight ratio of a weight of the water in the bread container to the weight of the ingredients in the bread container based on the weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container and the ingredients in the bread container;
- a control means for controlling the-kneading means and the heating means to carry out a kneading process during a kneading time period, a rising process during a rising time period and a baking process during a baking time period;
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- processing means for determining said kneading time period based on said water/ingredients weight ratio.
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A bread making apparatus comprising:
- a bread container for holding bread ingredients and water during kneading, rising and baking;
- kneading means for kneading the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- heating means for heating the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- a first weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients in the bread container prior to the addition of water;
- a second weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- calculating means for calculating a water/ingredients weight ratio of a weight of the water in the bread container to the weight of the ingredients in the bread container based on the weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container and the weight of the ingredients in the container;
- a control means for controlling the kneading means and the heating means to carry out a kneading process during a kneading time period, a rising process during a rising time period and a baking process during a baking time period;
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- processing means for determining said rising time period based on said water/ingredients weight ratio.
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A bread making apparatus comprising:
- a bread container for holding bread ingredients and water during kneading, rising and baking;
- kneading means for kneading the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- heating means for heating the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- a first weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients in the bread container prior to the addition of water;
- a second weighing means for determining a weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container;
- calculating means for calculating a water/ingredients weight ratio of a weight of the water in the bread container to the weight of the ingredients in the bread container based on the weight of the ingredients and water in the bread container and the weight of the ingredients in the container;
- a control means for controlling the kneading means and the heating means to carry out a kneading process during a kneading time period, a rising process during a rising time period and a baking process during a baking time period;
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- processing means for determining said baking time period based on said water/ingredients weight ratio.
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