US 6,305,273 B1 · Toaster with warming chambers

Abstract

A toaster includes a toaster body having a top wall, at least one toasting chamber in the top wall, a bottom, side walls, and end walls. A seat is adjacent to, and extends along at least a portion of one of the side walls (and preferably along both of the side walls). The seat allows toast to be placed in contact with the wall of the toaster to be kept warm by heat radiating through the toaster wall. In one embodiment, the seat is simply an exposed shelf. In another embodiment, the seat forms a bottom surface of an enclosed warming chamber. The warming chamber is defined by an outer wall which is spaced from the toaster body side wall, a top wall, a front wall, a back wall, and the seat. A door is provided to allow access to the chamber. Preferably, the door can be removed from the toaster. The toaster includes oversized controls (a start lever and a darkness control lever) to allow the controls to be easily seen and manipulated. To make the controls even easier to be seen, the color of the control levers will contrast with the color of the toaster body.

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Dependent claims

A toaster comprising a toaster body having a toaster top, a toaster bottom, a toaster front wall, a toaster back wall, and toaster side walls, at least one toasting well in the body sized to receive a bread product for toasting or heating, a resistance wire adjacent said toasting well to toast or heat the bread product received in the toasting well;

at least one of said toaster walls being a warming wall;
said warming wall defining a continuous, uninterrupted surface and being made of a heat conductive material;
a seat upon which a bread product can sit adjacent said warming wall and extending along said warming wall;
the seat being positioned on a first side of said warming wall and said resistance wire being on a second, opposite, side of said warming wall;
and
a warming chamber to receive said bread product, the warming chamber being defined by a chamber front wall, a chamber back wall, a chamber outer wall, said toaster warming wall, a chamber top wall, and said seat;
the toaster including a door to said chamber, said door being movable between an opened position in which a bread product can be placed in or removed from said chamber, and a closed position in which said warming chamber is closed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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