Abstract: A toaster has electrical parts which are energized from a mains voltage. The bread is conveyed to a toasting chamber (4) by means of a lift (6) and a handle (12). In the end position of the handle (12) a main switch (SW5) is turned on, as a result of which the electrical parts can be powered from the mains voltage. The heating elements receive mains voltage via triacs controlled by a microcontroller. After completion of the toasting cycle the microcontroller turns off the heating elements, which precludes burning of the bread, even if the main switch remains in its on-position as a result of a mechanical defect. Subsequently, the microcontroller checks the presence of the mains voltage. In that case a signalling device is activated to warn the user that the mains voltage supply to the toaster has not yet been turned off.

Abstract: An improved toasting apparatus is disclosed including a variable speed conveyor belt for conveying products through the toaster; a bottom heating element positioned below the conveyor belt, the bottom heating element including variable control for controlling the amount of heat provided by the bottom heating element; a drying zone including a first plurality of upper heating elements positioned above the conveyor; a toasting zone including a second plurality of upper heating elements; and wherein the bottom heating element and the first and second plurality of upper heating elements are controlled individually and independently.

Abstract: An electric toaster (10) which comprises a body (11) having at least one bread compartment (12), an electrical heating element provided inside the compartment (12), a hinged support (17) provided on the body (11) and above the compartment (12) for supporting a piece of food for warming by the heating element. The support (17) is movable between an extended condition for operation and a collapsed condition for storage. It is formed by two inverted broad generally U-shaped elongate support bars (18,19) each having a central limb (18A/19A) for supporting a piece of food and a pair of opposite side limbs (18B,18C/19B,19C). The support bars (18,19) are arranged to have their side limbs (18B,19B/18C,19C) at each end of the central limbs (18A,19A) adjacent each other. A manual operating member (26) for moving the support (17) between the extended and collapsed conditions. One (18B) of the side limbs is in engagement with the operating member (26) for movement thereby.

Abstract: A cooked food staging device and method is provided. The cooked food staging device allows previously cooked food items, particularly sandwich fillings such as hamburger patties, fish fillets, biscuits, Canadian bacon, pork sausage, eggs, chicken patties, chicken fillets and nuggets, to be stored over extended periods of time at an elevated temperature without significant deleterious effects to the appearance, taste and texture of the food while avoiding risk of bacterial contamination. The food staging device is composed of a plurality of discrete compartments bounded by upper and lower heated compartment surfaces. Food can be stored within the compartments in trays having side walls of a height such that a gap is achieved between the top of the tray and the upper compartment heated surface to limit and control the evaporation of liquid from the food stored therein.

Abstract: Electrical household appliance which permits simultaneous toasting of bread and cooking of food in separate cavities which are arranged within a housing in perpendicular relationship and each of the cavities being provided with respective heating elements. Bread slices are inserted into the toaster cavity from slots on the top of the appliance and are toast in the vertical position while other articles of food are inserted horizontally into the oven cavity through an opening on the front side of the appliance. The food articles in the oven cavity can be cooked while bread is toasting in the toaster cavity. The appliance is provided with controls for adjusting the temperatures and times for toasting and cooking. One of the heating elements utilized in the toaster cavity may be shiftable from a first position in the toaster compartment to a second position in the oven cavity.

Abstract: An appliance (5) for toasting a product (10) comprises detection means (12) for detecting variations of a toasting condition of the product during toasting and for allowing a user to adjust the toasting result as desired. The appliance comprises a temperature sensor (13) which measures the temperature of the product. Timing means (14) are started when a predetermined temperature (Td) is reached. The timing means (14) are stopped when either another predetermined temperature (Tf) is reached or when a predetermined period has elapsed. The appliance is also capable of controlling a process of defrosting of the product prior to toasting of said product.

Abstract: A food cutting holder mounted in conjunction with a toaster for toasting bagels, muffins, bread slices and other similar types of foodstuff. The food cutting holder is to be confinable within the housing of the toaster when in the storage position and removable from the housing when it is intended to be used. The food cutting holder confiningly locates the food item in a precise position facilitating division of the food item into a plurality of separate pieces. It is intended that these separate pieces are then to be toasted within the toaster.

Abstract: An electric toaster which comprises a body having a compartment (20) for accommodating a slice of bread, a vertically movable support for supporting a said slice of bread in the compartment (20), an operating member (36/42) operable to move the support downwards, heating elements provided on opposite sides of the compartment (20) for heating a said slice of bread, and a movable holder (16 & 18) having opposite sides (16 & 18) supported for movement towards each other upon operation of the operating member (36/42) in order to hold therebetween a said slice of bread in a stationary position between the heating elements. Each said holder side (16/18) has upper and lower end portions which are guided to move along respective slots (28).

Abstract: A toaster having a movable bakery product shield for enhanced toasting quality. A wide slot cavity to receive bakery goods for toasting is defined on one side thereof by an upstanding, stationary product retainer spaced apart from a heating element and, on the other side thereof, by a movable product retainer having a deflector shield connected along its upper edge. Interiorally of the toaster, a carriage mechanism is mounted on an end wall for vertical reciprocal movement between an up position and a down position. Connected to the carriage mechanism and extending longitudinally through the slot cavity is a bread support shelf which is inclined toward the stationary product retainer to cause the lower edge of a bread slice placed in the toaster slot to engage the stationary product retainer.

Abstract: A toasting or heating appliance, particularly an electrical food toasting or heating appliance such as a toaster, including a housing (1) with a fixed toasting subassembly (5) and a movable toasting subassembly (6) moved by a holder (20) to form a variable-width toasting slot (7), the holder (20) including two side arms (21, 22) rotatably mounted at their ends on the housing (1), a bread rack (15) axially movable in the slot, and a control handle (16) which controls the movement of the movable bread rack (15) and is combined with an actuating member (19) for causing relative movement of the two subassemblies (5, 6), wherein the appliance further includes at least one stabilizing arm (30) arranged behind the movable subassembly (6) and connected to the back thereof via a first hinge (31), as well as to the housing (1) via a second hinge (32).

Abstract: A toasting or heating appliance, particularly an electric toaster comprising a housing with a toasting slot (7) defined by two movable squeezing grills (13), a bread rack (15) axially movable within the toasting slot (7), a carriage (40) which controls the movement of the movable bread rack (15) and is combined with a control handle (16), and a resilient return member (46) for returning the bread rack (15) to its raised receiving position, wherein the control carriage (40) is axially and resiliently movable relative to the movable bread rack (15) and provided with a member (19) that actuates a drive element (45) for moving at least one squeezing grill (13). The appliance is suitable for use as a toaster.

Abstract: An electric toaster having an automatic resetting heat reduction assembly. The toaster includes one or more cavities to receive bagels, bread, or other food products, and a plurality of heating elements located within the cavities to toast the food products. A carriage assembly movable between a raised nontoasting position and a lowered toasting position lowers and raises the food products into and out of the toasting cavities. When lowered to the toasting position, the carriage assembly activates a heat activation assembly which completes an electrical circuit between a power source and the heating elements, thereby energizing the heating elements to toast the food products. The toaster also includes a heat reduction assembly settable between an original full heat position and a depressed reduced heat position.

Abstract: A cooking appliance, such as a gas grill, includes a cooking pit, at least one radiant gas burner on a side wall of the pit, a receptacle for collecting liquid and cooking juices, and a bottom assembly which is heat-retaining and permeable with respect to the liquids flowing toward the collecting receptacle. The cooking appliance further includes a water spray assembly which allows steam cooking.

Abstract: A toaster has a casing, a carrier for supporting a slice of bread, the carrier being movable between an upper position to expose the slice of bread outside the casing and a lower position to render the slice of bread inside the casing, a heating element provided inside the casing for heating the slice of bread when the carrier is in the lower position, an internal operating mechanism for moving the carrier, the operating mechanism including a spring assembly for resiliently biasing the carrier upwards and holding means including a stationary solenoid for holding the carrier in the lower position, and a time for controlling the time period during which the slice of bread is to be heated by the heating element wherein the holding means is releasable by a user at point other than the solenoid or with a force relatively smaller than the holding force of the solenoid in order to release the carrier from the lower position at any time during the time period.

Abstract: A barbecue appliance capable of cooking a variety of foods by disposing a rotary grill in which food is held vertically within a cooking chamber between heating members provided therein and rotating the rotary grill between the heating members, so that an optimum cooking state is obtained. The barbecue includes a cooking unit and a rotary grill which may be inserted into the cooking unit. The cooking unit has an outer casing provided with an elongated top opening and having a removable drip reservoir provided in the bottom thereof, a main frame encased by the outer casing and having a bottom wall and side walls defining therewithin a vertical cooking chamber opened and its top, heating members disposed on both sides of the cooking chamber, a drive section having a driving gear extended to the inside of the cooking chamber, a solenoid-releasable lifting and lowering mechanism for lifting and lowering the rotary grill in the cooking chamber.

Abstract: A portable pizza oven comprising a fixed upper casing, a fixed lower casing, the upper and lower casings defining therebetween an opening, an upper heater assembly located within and fixed to the upper casing, a lower heater assembly located within and fixed to the lower casing, so as to define a cooking chamber which is located between the heater assemblies and which is accessible via the opening, and a pan assembly insertable into and removable from the cooking chamber, the pan assembly including a circular tray having a diameter of slightly greater than twelve inches, the pan assembly also including a handle fixed to the tray, such that, when the pan assembly is inserted into the cooking chamber, the handle closes the opening, thereby closing the cooking chamber.

Abstract: The pop-up toaster has a toaster body provided with a slot for insertion of an article to be toasted, a toaster carriage for the article, electric toasting elements in an interior of the toaster body for toasting the article and a flame barrier device for preventing a flame produced by inadvertent combustion of the article from issuing from the slot while permitting escape of heated air from the slot. The flame barrier device can be made of wire gauze or expanded metal and is connectable to the toaster body for motion between a closed position closing the slot to prevent flame from issuing therefrom and at least one open position in which the article can be inserted into the interior through the slot. The flame barrier device can be connected to the toaster carriage so that it automatically closes when the article to be toasted is inserted in the toaster and automatically opens when the article has been toasted.

Abstract: A vertically oriented duel grill comprising a generally upstanding box-shaped housing having a latitudinal front opening with a cooking chamber therein. A structure is provided for holding food to be cooked. A component is for vertically suspending the holding structure within the cooking chamber in the housing through the front opening. A facility within the cooking chamber is for supplying heat to opposite sides of the holding structure. The food can be cooked on both sides simultaneously, while any fats and liquids from the food can drip down away from the food.

Abstract: An electric toaster includes a housing defining a toaster cavity. A comestible support rack is mounted within the toasting cavity for supporting the bread to be toasted in a horizontal plane within the cavity. The toaster includes first and second heaters mounted respectively above and below the support rack. The cavity includes radiant energy reflecting surfaces above and below the support tray to direct energy generated by the heaters of the toaster to uniformly toast each side of the comestible. Heat shields are positioned between each of the heaters and the food support rack. The heat shields aid the reflective surfaces in uniformly toasting the surfaces of the comestible.

Abstract: An electric toaster includes a grate heating body having a reflector. A barlike heating element is disposed in front of the reflector. A shielding device is disposed in front of the heating element. The shielding device includes a field having a plurality of spaced-apart substantially round or polygonal shielding bars with a reflective surface extending approximately parallel to the heating bar and to one another.

Abstract: An electric toaster includes a housing defining a toaster cavity. A comestible support rack is mounted within the toasting cavity for supporting the bread to be toasted in a horizontal plane within the cavity. The toaster includes first and second heaters mounted respectively above and below the support rack. The cavity includes radiant energy reflecting surfaces above and below the support tray to direct energy generated by the heaters of the toaster to uniformly toast each side of the comestible. Heat shields are positioned between each of the heaters and the food support rack. The heat shields aid the reflective surfaces in uniformly toasting the surfaces of the comestible.

Abstract: A toaster having an automatic shut-off. The toaster includes a cavity to receive bread and which includes a heating element which may be selectively energized by a switch to cause toasting of the bread. The toaster also includes a carriage mechanism to move the bread between up and down positions. The carriage mechanism includes a bread support extending into the cavity. The bread support is connected to a support frame which rides upon a vertical slide rod. Also mounted upon the slide rod is a lock frame mounted to allow limited movement with respect to the support frame. A spring is connected to the lock frame to bias it into an up position, and the lock frame includes a lock mechanism to releasable maintain it in a down position. The switch for activating the heating elements is activated when the lock frame is in this down position. A release mechanism is provided to release the lock mechanism.

Abstract: An electric toaster is suspended from the lower surface of a kitchen cabinet. The electric toaster has a horizontally disposed toasting compartment. An inner wall defines the toasting compartment and is spaced from an outer housing wall. A partition extends in the space between the inner and outer housing walls to separate the space into inner and outer air paths. An air inlet is in fluid flow communication with the inner air path to obtain convective cooling of the inner air path. The air in the outer air path provides an insulating barrier to minimize the transfer of heat from the toasting compartment to the housing wall.

Abstract: A toast shade selector includes a rotatable shaft interposed between aligned openings in upstanding plates of a mounting bracket. A cam on the shaft is rotated in the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction to regulate the toasting time intervals. A spring carried by the shaft biases the cam against an adjusting nut and also biases a portion of the shaft into one of the openings. Both the shaft and the cam are made from sheet metal.

Abstract: A cover door structure is arranged for mounting to a top wall of a toaster assembly to selectively overlie the bread receiving slots directed through the top wall of the associated toaster for heat conservation and accelerated toasting of bread directed within the toaster structure. Manual or automatic cooperation of the doors are arranged relative to an associated toaster assembly.

Abstract: An electric grilling appliance includes a pair of infrared radiation emitting heaters disposed within a housing on opposite sides of a food holder. The food holder includes a pair of metal food holder plates of a size and configuration to directly contact, on their inner surfaces, substantially the complete outer surface of the food article to be grilled. The outer surfaces of the metal food holder plates are blackened to absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the heaters. Springs urging the metal food holder plates towards each other into firm contact with the food article to be grilled.

Abstract: The device is intended to support the mechanical and electrical members of a toaster (1).The device consists of a plate (2) in plastic material comprising protuberances or tongues (3, 4, 5, 6) molded in the plastic material and projecting on one of the faces of the plate (2), these protuberances or tongues being shaped in order to receive and to ensure the fixing of conducting (7, 8) or mechanical elements by translation of the latter perpendicularly to the plate (2), these elements being intended to form the mechanical and electrical control members of the toaster.Application particularly in vertical toasters.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a bread toaster comprising a carriage (4) which is manually slidable in a guide (3) between an upper and a lower limit position by means of a handle (6). Moving in conjunction with the carriage (4) is a toasting rack (2) which is adapted to receive an article to be toasted (22), with the upper limit position of the carriage (4) serving to receive or withdraw the article (22), while the lower limit position serves for turning the power on and for toasting the article (22). The bread toaster includes an extra-lift device (11) which is operated by a control knob (8) to enable the toasting rack (2) to be raised relative to the carriage (4). According to the invention, the extra-lift device (11) is carried by the carriage (4) and/or by the toasting rack (2).

Abstract: An electric toaster includes a housing having at least one heating element mounted therein. A source of electric power is selectively connected to the heating element for energization thereof. A carriage is mounted in the housing for supporting a food product to be toasted and is movable between upper non-toasting and lower toasting positions. An electrically operated latch mechanism holds the carriage in its toasting position. A temperature sensing switch is electrically connected to the latch mechanism for releasing the mechanism and returning the carriage to its non-toasting position when the temperature of the food has reached a predetermined level. A time delay mechanism is electrically connected to the temperature sensing switch for disabling the switch during an initial period of time at the start of each toasting cycle when the carriage is moved to its toasting position.

Abstract: In an electric toaster (1), a carriage (18) which supports the bread slices (8) and (10) to be toasted is movable automatically from a toasting position to a first position (FIG. 1a) where larger slices (10) can be removed and then manually to a second position (FIG. 1b) where smaller slices (8) can be removed.

Abstract: A toaster with one control system for toasting one slice of bread and another control system for toasting two different slices of bread in which the one slice control system and the two slice control system can be operated independently and together so that between one to three slices of bread can be toasted.

Abstract: Toaster comprising a housing (1), a heating resistance controlled by a switch (2) associated with a timer, a breed carriage (3) guided within the housing and adapted to occupy at least two positions, namely a toasting position in which the carriage (3) closes the switch (2) actuating the timer, and in which the carriage (3) is moved by the user and maintained during the toasting cycle by a catch (5) operated by an electromagnet (6) which comes into engagement with an abutment (7) of the carriage (3), or a rest position into which the carriage (3) is moved by a return spring (8), at the end of the toasting cycle, when the catch (5) frees the abutment (7).

Abstract: Apparatus and method for broiling whole chickens which have been severe along the breast bone for opening into a generally flat condition includes a housing having opposing laterally spaced sets of upright gas-fueled infrared heaters defining therebetween a cooking chamber and an endless chain conveyor for transporting chickens suspended by their legs through the chamber. To prevent burning and promote uniform cooking of the chicken meat, a screen is interposed between one set of heater panels and the path of movement of the chickens in the region of the chicken thighs and back, which have a sub-skin concentration of fat, to modify the cooking energy emitted from the laterally adjacent region of the heater panels.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a bread toaster with a removable crumb tray, including devices which prevent operation of the bread toaster when the crumb tray is not inserted and, secondly, which ensure that operation of the bread toaster is stopped when the crumb tray is removed during toasting.

Abstract: A compact oven for preparing freshly baked cakes, muffins, and breads from a pourable batter or vertically oriented disk-shaped molds. A hinged cover completes the enclosure. Heat is applied to each vertical side of the molds.

Abstract: A heating unit, in particular for bread toasters, with a useful heat emitting area (2) and a waste heat emitting area (12), comprising an insulating body (1) and a heat conductor wound thereon. In bread toasters the efficiency of such heating units is considered unsatisfactory, and undue heating of the housing occurs since the radiation of heat in the waste heat emitting area is not directed to the material being toasted but to the housing walls. To avoid this shortcoming, it is proposed to short-circuit the heat conductor portions (12) extending in the waste heat emitting area.

Abstract: Equipment for holding or staging a bicompartmented sandwich package is disclosed. The equipment comprises supporting structure for supporting several packages, and heating elements for applying heat to only a part of the package. The support includes an uninterrupted floor supporting the warmed or hot compartment of the package, and shelving structure for supporting the unwarmed or cool package compartment. Heaters are disposed above and below the hot compartment. The support structure is arranged to retain the heat around the warmed or hot compartment. One embodiment, the floor structure is inclined so as to urge packages in the structure to slide downwardly to a pre-determined pick-up point.

Abstract: Equipment for the controlled and uniform cooking of foods of lesser thickness so that cooking occurs uniformly on the whole upper surface of the food and uniformly on the whole lower surface of the food comprising a base having a hole; a lower burner disposed below the hole; a heat conducting plate disposed over the hole, a lower surface of food resting on the plate being uniformly cooked by the thermal conduction from the lower burner through the plate; a chamber having an open bottom spaced from the plate; an upper burner disposed in the chamber; a fume deflector device mounted to the chamber and mounted between the upper burner and the heat conducting plate for deflecting and evenly distributing hot fumes generated by the upper burner so that a uniform column of hot fumes descends vertically toward the heat conducting plate and strike perpendicularly over an upper surface of food resting on the plate; and a deflector ring encircling and concentric with the chamber and having a lower end in contact with at

Abstract: A grilling apparatus comprising a plurality of confronting pairs of heat emitters, a continuous conveyor therebetween having a plurality of spaced suspended hooks for conveying meat. At predetermined spacings, ramps are provided for tilting and releasing the hooks and suspended meat only as to those having sufficient lengths of lateral arms as to be engageable with the ramps. Shorter length lateral arms will clear the ramps to enable longer cooking of the suspended meat.

Abstract: An oven for preparing food products such as pizza including three chambers which are serially connected and through which a conveyor carries a food product which may be received in an open-topped pan or which may be placed directly on the conveyor. The center chamber includes steam impingement structure for impinging jets of hot steam onto the top surface of the food product. The center chamber also includes a hot air impingement structure for impinging jets of hot gas onto the bottom surface of the container of the food product. The first and last chambers in the oven include hot air impingement structure for impinging hot jets of air onto both the top surface of the food product and the bottom surface of the pan.

Abstract: A compact two-sided cooking device is disclosed for use with an existing grill to permit two-sided cooking of food products, such as hamburger patties, on a relatively limited basis. The device includes a cooking assembly having an electrically-powered cooking platen which can be selectively positioned on food products on the grill for effecting accelerated two-sided cooking thereof. The present cooking device has been particularly configured for use in conjunction with, and for rocking movement on, a commercially-sized restaurant grill, and provides greatly reduced cooking times so that a customer's order can be freshly and efficiently prepared even during relatively slow business hours.

Abstract: Food articles tending to exclude fat are heated in cooking apparatus provided with a floor removable for cleaning and of double-walled construction so that cooling air can be blown through to reduce or eliminate the risk that fat collected on the floor will ignite. The air flow is controlled so as to occur only when the floor temperature is above a predetermined level.

Abstract: The invention provides a machine for preparing culinary specialties in the form of flat cakes, for example, potato cakes, and is characterized in that it comprises a first station for supplying to a recess in a cooking plate constituents required for cooking the cake, and means for moving the plate successively from the supply station to a plurality of other stations at which the cake is cooked on both sides and discharged from the machine.

Abstract: A confectionery grill having upper and lower hinged heating elements in which the upper heating element or grill unit can be adjustably spaced at its hinge from the lower heating element or grill unit during the cooking cycle.

Abstract: A broiler for cooking food products has an upper heating unit located in a spaced relationship from the food and a lower heating unit in a close heat transfer relationship with the food. The upper unit is preferably a U-shaped radiant fire tube with a gas-fired power burner mounted at one end as a heat source. Hot flue products exiting the radiant tube are directed to the lower heating unit which is preferably a heat pipe assembly with evaporator and condenser zones for a working fluid. In one form the condenser zone includes a generally flat wall portion with a cooking surface defining a set of upwardly facing grooves. In another form the condenser zone is a series of generally parallel pipes that extend under the food in a horizontal, mutually spaced relationship. A movable rack supports the food and moves it into and out of a cooking relationship with the condenser zone of the heat pipe assembly.

Abstract: An easily cleaned and serviced belgian style waffle iron has a cast aluminum base provided with a hollow interior opening downwardly between support legs of the base, an electrical power source component including a housing which is removably secured within the base cavity and includes a pair of electrical conduit plug receiving receptacles, a power line for connection to a source of electrical power, electrical conduit means for electrically connecting the receptacles to the power line and fasteners for holding the housing in the base cavity, a pair of waffle grid providing members are pivotally mounted on the base by a support shaft extending between spaced journal blocks which in turn are removably mounted to the waffle iron base in such a manner to allow easy removal of the blocks, shaft and grid providing members for cleaning or servicing thereof and a pair of detachable thermostat-electrical conduit members are provided to supply electrical power from the electrical power source component to heating ele

Abstract: An improved food oven and method of preparing food is disclosed characterized by a double-oven compartment structure with each compartment having multiple infrared heating rod arrays and a smoker unit adapted to prepare food disposed within the compartment. Operation of the heating rod arrays and smoker units are monitored by a novel electronic control system which permits independent baking, broiling, barbecuing, smoking and hold-warming of foods disposed within each compartment. The compartments further incorporate a unique vent system which automatically generates a convectional airflow through each of the compartments to reduce isolated temperature gradients within the compartments and effectuate a generally uniform preparation of food.

Abstract: An oven in a cooking machine has a pair of spaced parallel endless conveyor chains mounted therein and driven by a motor. Pivotally supported baskets for holding food are connected normal to the conveyor chains. Electrical heating elements disposed between and above the baskets are supported in the oven for cooking the food products. Guide rails maintain the baskets horizontally disposed as the baskets move adjacent to the heating elements. A sauce tank disposed in one end of the oven receives the baskets containing the food products. Each of the baskets is immersed in the sauce once during each cycle of operation. To remove the cooked food products from the oven, spaced runners are shifted over the sauce tank to prevent the baskets of food products from being dipped into the sauce. A movable collar connects and disconnects the conveyor chains to the motor. A door at the front of the oven has counterweights to facilitate opening and closing of the door by an operator.

Abstract: Food articles are heated by radiation in the near infrared wavelength range of 0.72 .mu.m to 2.5 .mu.m. Food articles can be thawed, heated or fully cooked direct from the frozen condition in this way. Hamburger patties are cooked in a conveyor cooker between rows of sources of such radiation. The sources are energized at half voltage during standby periods so that the conveyor is held at a temperature such that it has a searing effect on patties cooked by exposure to the radiation. Full energization is effected by operation of a switch in response to placement of a patty on the conveyor through a flap connected with the switch. A separate conveyor carries hamburger bun halves beneath a third row of the sources. In a static area employing sources of the radiation, reflector and screening arrangements provide even diffuse radiation in the heating zone and control of the heating effect is obtained by selective energization of the sources for selectively variable periods.

Abstract: An electric oven toaster construction wherein an interrupt mechanism is provided for interrupting operation of a toast timer controller when the oven toaster door is opened. An interrupt lever is positioned between a door operated rod and a heat-up/cool-down bi-metal timer controller so that when the door is opened the interrupt lever moves the toasting period controller to its off position. Thus, when the door is opened during a toasting cycle operation, the toasting period controller is returned to its off position so that a user is required to reset a new full-toast cycle when the door is reclosed. This arrangement prevents undertoasted bread that could result if fresh bread is inserted in the middle of a toasting cycle.