Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Device for filtration of the frying bath in an electric fryer having an immersed heating resistor
    Publication number: 20050016386
    Abstract: A device for filtering the frying bath of an electric fryer having a heating resistor that is immersed in a frying bath in a tank during frying, the device including: a filter screen adapted to extend beneath the immersed electric resistor; and at least one holding element for connecting said screen to the immersed electric resistor. An electric fryer composed of; a tank provided to receive a frying bath; an electric heating resistor provided to be immersed in the frying bath; and the device described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Valerie Ducarme, Frederic Seurat
  • Cooking aid device
    Patent number: 6837148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for assisting in culinary preparation, comprising a plurality of electric household appliances (10, 20, 30) and a remote monitoring and control apparatus (2). According to the invention, the user can select a prerecorded culinary preparation that is modeled as a sequence of steps of preparation and, in the course of at least one step, the monitoring and control apparatus (2) receives a condition signal SE from certain of the electric household appliances, and emits toward certain others a control signal SC dependent on the one hand on condition signals SE and on the other hand of prerecorded operational parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Laurent Deschenes, Anne-Maria Piolet
  • Electric toaster
    Patent number: 6829983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a toaster in which the housing (1) comprises: a toasting chamber (2); a toast rack (5), which can move vertically inside said chamber (2) between an eject position and a toasting position; a driver (6), which is linked to the toast rack (5), is slide mounted on a vertical column (7) and is used to lower the toast rack (5) from the eject position, in which the driver (6) is returned by an elastic means (9), to the toasting position, in which the driver (6) is held in place by an unlockable means (10); and a rising damping device comprising a piston (16) which can slide vertically along a determined path in a housing (17) that is solidly connected to the drive and the upper face of which can come into contact with a stop end (19) located in the top part of the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S. A.
    Inventors: Julian Arnedo, Antonio Basora
  • Filter coffee maker with distribution of hot water in the lid
    Publication number: 20040244600
    Abstract: A filter coffee maker having: a boiler; a case in which the boiler is disposed; an ascending conduit coupled to the boiler for upward movement of the hot water produced by said boiler; a filter holder or filter holder housing; a lid pivoted on the case; and a water delivery head arranged in the lid. The delivery head has an inlet opening brought into communication with a hot water outlet orifice of the conduit and an outlet opening that opens above the filter holder or housing when the lid is closed. The lid has a lower face presenting a protuberance in which the inlet opening is arranged, the ascending conduit has an upper end with a closed upper part, and the orifice opens in a direction facing a lateral wall forming part of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Jacques Lalanne-Eygun
  • Iron with an open rear cavity
    Publication number: 20040237357
    Abstract: A pressing iron having, from bottom to top, a heating soleplate, a body delimited by an envelope that contains a water reservoir, and a gripping handle connected to the body. The reservoir is provided with a vent at the rear of the iron and at the top of the reservoir, the iron is provided with an opening situated at the front of the iron above the reservoir, and the iron further has a tube connecting the vent to the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Cedric Bontems, David Hilary Powell, Edgar Hipp, Bernard Dugelay
  • Food cooking appliance with cooling flow
    Patent number: 6823772
    Abstract: A food-cooking appliance having a cooking bowl designed to be closed by a lid (7) in a substantially airtight manner during cooking, heater means, and odor treatment means (10) for treating the cooking odors, which means discharge the treated stream of air to the outside of the appliance via at least one opening (20), the food-cooking appliance being characterized in that it includes cooling means (21) designed to generate a cooling stream directed to sweep across the opening (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Payen, Bernard Bouly
  • Cooking appliance with removable cooking plate by locking and unlocking device
    Patent number: 6820537
    Abstract: A cooking appliance comprising a shell (4) and a control knob (7) mobile relative to the shell (4) which comprises a heating element and bears a removable hot plate fixed on the heating element by at least one locking member (1) and releasable by moving the member (1). The appliance comprises a lever (8) forming a crank-shaft assembly pivoting about a pin (12) whereby it is fixed to the shell (4); one part of the lever (20) co-operates with the knob (7) and another part (19), drives the locking member (1) when the knob is stressed and acts on the lever (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Yves Patenotre
  • Toaster with removable base
    Publication number: 20040226453
    Abstract: A toaster composed of a case having lateral walls that constitute the outer cover of the toaster, the case containing a frame forming a toasting chamber having an opening at an upper part of the case and an opening at a lower part of the case, a base removably connectable to the case and facing the opening at the lower part of the case, and a heating unit for the chamber having heating elements situated in proximity to the chamber and connected to a device for supplying electric power and for controlling the heating elements. The base is completely removable from the case, and the base and the case have respective elements that interact with one another when the case is disposed on the base, such that withdrawal of the case from the base suppresses the interaction to prevent the supply of electric power to the heating elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Houel
  • Heating element and electric toaster with thermal insulation
    Publication number: 20040222215
    Abstract: A heating element composed of at least one mica sheet and a heating ribbon, or strip, mounted on the sheet, a support device holding the mica sheet and constituting a first reflector, and a plate secured to the support device and constituting a second reflector. An electric toaster composed of a base, a case having an upper end, a toasting chamber disposed in the case and having an opening in the form of a slot at the upper end for the introduction and removal of bread, a movable bread support rack in the chamber, and at least one substantially vertical heating element as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: SEB S.A
    Inventors: Lionel Reyes, Michel Klinger, Jean-Marie Balandier, Guy Mauffrey
  • Electric cooking appliance having a tank associated with a pouring device
    Patent number: 6807899
    Abstract: An electric cooking appliance composed of: a tank for holding a cooking liquid; a housing in which the tank is mounted, the housing having an upper opening; an upper peripheral rim surrounding the upper opening, the upper peripheral rim being provided with an indentation; and a pouring accessory constructed to be removably mounted in the indentation to facilitate the pouring of the cooking liquid out of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Pascal Dirand
  • Iron comprising a water filling slide valve
    Patent number: 6807755
    Abstract: The invention relates to an iron. The inventive iron consists of a liquid container (6) comprising an inlet (7) which is fitted with means of receiving and guiding the liquid through said opening towards the container. Preferably, the aforementioned means comprise a part (9) in the form of a slide valve or chute. Moreover, said means, which pass through the opening, can move in translation between a first open position, whereby the liquid can be introduced, and a second closed position, whereby the means are retracted into the iron in order to close the opening (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Cédric Bontems, Gérald Latout, Eric Mathieu, Matthias Hahn
  • Iron with an open rear cavity
    Patent number: 6807757
    Abstract: The invention relates to an iron having, from the base upwards: a heating soleplate (1); a body (2) which is defined by a casing; and a handle (3), the rear end of which is connected to the body (2) of the iron. The aforementioned handle (3) is connected to the body (2) at the rear end thereof by (5) which extend outwards from the body in an essentially symmetric manner in relation to the mid-place of the iron, thereby creating an open cavity or space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Cedric Bontems, David Hilary Powell, Edgar Hipp, Bernard Dugelay
  • Toaster with reinforced walls
    Patent number: 6799505
    Abstract: The toaster shell (2) is open at the top, and is reinforced by a ring (30) which is mechanically attached to the top edge of the walls (2a) forming the toaster shell. The ring has a ‘U’-shaped cross-section which fits over the edges of the walls. The ring is made of a material with low thermal conductivity, ideally molded from a heat-resistant plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Guy Mauffrey
  • Pressing iron having an electro-osmotic pump
    Publication number: 20040181979
    Abstract: A clothes iron appliance composed of a water reservoir, a steam chamber, and an electro-osmotic pump having a porous body disposed to pump water from the reservoir to the steam chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean Louis Compeau, Jean Pierre Debourg
  • Device for loading slices of bread in a toaster
    Patent number: 6789464
    Abstract: An automatic toaster, comprising heating means (2) with slices of bread pass passing in front of said heating means, and means for transporting slices of bread to said heating means, characterized in that the means for transporting the slices of bread include a spiral-shaped rotating element (6) defining a plurality of housings (11) for slices of bread (30), the length of said housings corresponding essentially to the pitch of the spiral (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Alain Rousseau
  • Toaster oven
    Patent number: D501356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Filtering container for fryer
    Patent number: D496823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Luc Josancy
  • Toaster
    Patent number: D497279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Jasper Charles Morrison
  • Electric knife
    Patent number: D497521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Bruno Leverrier
  • Household electric coffee maker
    Patent number: D499599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Seb S.A.
    Inventor: Jasper Morrison