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US 5,771,780 AGranted
Electric toaster
AssigneeMoulinex S.A.
InventorsAntonio Basora, Julian Arnedo
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Abstract
An electric toaster with a housing (1) includes a toasting chamber and a slot (2) provided in the top surface thereof for inserting slices of bread, at least one heating element (3), and at least one bread holder (4) movable up and down on a guide device (6) by a lowering and raising mechanism (8) between the housing (1) and the toasting chamber. The guide device (6) comprises a single vertical slide rail (9) with a slide (10) movably mounted thereon, and the holder (4) is attached only to the slide (10) so that it is cantilevered to the post (9).
Claims9
Electric toaster comprising:
- a casing defining a toasting enclosure of parallelepipedal shape overall and having on a top face a slot for the insertion of slices of bread;
- at least one bread-carrier carriage mounted so as to move vertically on a guide device;
- a lowering and raising mechanism arranged between the casing and the toasting enclosure for lowering the carriage to a low toasting position situated at the bottom of the enclosure and for raising the carriage, after a previously fixed toasting period has elapsed, to a high extraction position for removal of toasted slices of bread;
- said guide device including a single sliding column having a slider movably mounted thereon, said carriage being attached only to the slider such that said carriage is cantilevered from said column;
- and said slider including at least two sliding devices having a lower coefficient of friction with the column and disposed substantially in the same vertical plane on each side of the column.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.