High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus
AssigneeEdgecraft Corporation
InventorDaniel D. Friel, Sr.
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Abstract
An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy from vertically oriented toaster heating elements located juxtaposed to the large vertical faces of the basket and from at least one elongated heating member located below the vertical baking basket with the axis of the elongated heating member oriented nominally horizontal and parallel to the longer horizontal axis of the vertically oriented baking basket.
Claims14
A convertible electric baking oven for food items and a batch type toaster for sliced bread and the like comprising a heatable toasting zone, at least one heater in said toasting zone, a mobile normally open toasting basket to hold the bread slice, an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket having large vertical faces to hold the food items, each of said toasting basket and said baking basket being selectively removably mounted in an unheated waiting zone remote from toasting zone, a transport mechanism to selectively transfer each of said toasting basket and said baking basket from said waiting zone to said toasting zone, associated electrical and electronic controls designed to activate said heater while restraining motion of said transport mechanism in said waiting zone remote from said toasting zone until the temperature of said heater and the thermal conditions in said toasting zone have reached designated heating conditions and then direct said baking basket to enter and be held within said toasting zone until a heating cycle is complete.
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