Batch toaster
AssigneeEdgecroft Corporation
InventorDaniel D. Friel, Sr.
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Abstract
A batch type toaster includes a cool remote waiting zone and an intrinsically controlled transport mechanism that retains the bread in said waiting zone while the toasting zone is heating to optimum toasting conditions and subsequently moves the bread into the preheated toasting zone until the desired browning is obtained.
Claims20
A batch type toaster for sliced bread consisting of a heated toasting zone, one or more radiant heaters in said toasting zone, a mobile normally open transport to hold the bread slice, a designated unheated waiting zone for said mobile transport remote from toasting zone, a transport mechanism to transfer said open transport with the bread slice from said waiting zone to the toasting zone, associated electrical and electronic controls designed to activate said radiant heater or heaters while restraining motion of said transport holder in said waiting zone remote from said toasting zone until the temperature of the radiant heaters and the thermal conditions in said toasting zone have reached designated toasting conditions and then direct said mobile transport to enter and be held within said toasting zone until the toasting cycle is complete.
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