JP2000005079A - Oven toaster - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make patterns by means of burning on bread, and to put in and out bread without touching a pattern plate by means of hand by moving a grill forward and backward by means of linking with the opening and closing of a door and opening and closing the pattern plate by means of linking with it. SOLUTION: An oven toaster 1 is provided with the grill 7 which is moved forward and backward by linking with the opening and closing of the door 3 between heaters 5 and 6. In the toaster 1, the movement route of the grill 7 is set to be high in a rear part and low in a front part, the pattern plate 11 where the patterns are punched is arranged in the upper part of the grill 7, the rear part of the pattern plate 11 is pivotally-supported in the rear part of the grill 7 so as to be freely rotatable, the side edge of the pattern plate 11 is supported by a projection 16 which is disposed on the inner side surface of a case 2 so as to be freely slidable, the pattern plate 11 is moved forward and backward with the grill 7 which is moved forward and backward by linking with the opening and closing of the door 3 and the front part of the pattern plate 11 is rotated upward as against the grill 7 by the operation of the projection 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an oven toaster, and more particularly to an oven toaster which can produce a picture or a character pattern by baking on the surface of the bread when the bread is baked.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when bread is baked with a toaster, there is a type in which a pattern due to browning can appear on the bread. Examples of such a toaster include Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-68439 and Utility Model Registration No. 30.
One described in Japanese Patent Application No. 02192 is known.

[0003] All of these are pop-up toasters. When a pattern plate obtained by punching a pattern on a metal plate and bread are stacked and baked, only the punched portion is scorched and the pattern appears. Things.

[0004]

However, all of the publications described in the above-mentioned publications relate to pop-up toasters, and there is no known oven toaster that has been used frequently in recent years and that exhibits a pattern. .

When a bread is baked in an oven toaster, a similar pattern can be obtained by placing a pattern plate on the bread, but after the bread is baked, the pattern plate is also hot, and the pattern plate is removed. It is difficult. A burnt pattern can also appear on the bread by adding a pattern to the grill, but when cooking anything other than bread, the heat is shielded by the pattern plate, and cooking may not be performed properly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an oven toaster in which a pattern board can be separated from and brought into contact with a pan in conjunction with opening and closing of a door to easily show a brown pattern on the pan. It is intended to do so.

[0007]

According to the oven toaster of the present invention, a pair of upper and lower heaters is provided in a case,
In an oven toaster provided with a grill that moves back and forth in conjunction with opening and closing of the front door between the heaters,
The movement path of the grill is set high at the rear and low at the front, and a pattern board punched with a pattern is arranged at the top of the grill, and the rear of the pattern is rotatable to the rear of the grill. And the side edge of the pattern plate is slidably supported by a projection protruding from the inner surface of the case, and the pattern plate is accompanied by a grill which moves back and forth in conjunction with opening and closing of the door. Also moves forward and backward, and the front of the pattern board is rotated upward with respect to the grill by the action of the projections.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the pattern plate is removably supported on a grill. Further, it is preferable that the pattern plate is attached to the grid so that the distance between the two is variable.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. 1 is an oven toaster of the present invention, 2 is a case, a front opening 4 of the case 2 is closed by a door 3, and the door 3 is rotatably supported by a lower edge of the opening 4. Have been.

Inside the case 2, a pair of heaters 5, 6 are arranged above and below, and a grill 7 is arranged between them. The grill 7 is moved forward and backward in conjunction with opening and closing of the door 3. It is designed to move.

That is, the grill net 7 has an arcuate shape in which the front end is locked by a locking projection 8 on the back surface of the door 3 and the projection 9 protruding from the rear side is formed on the side surface of the case 2. Slit 10
The grille 7 moves forward and backward while keeping the horizontal level in conjunction with the opening and closing of the door 3, and when the door 3 is opened, the grille 7 is at a lower position than when the door is closed. It is supposed to be.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a pattern plate formed by punching an appropriate pattern 15 on a metal plate 14, as shown in FIG. A substantially U-shaped locking portion 12 is formed at the rear edge of the pattern plate 11,
Since the locking portion 12 is locked to the bar 13 at the rear end of the grill 7, the pattern plate 11 is rotatable and detachable with respect to the grill 7 at the rear end of the grill 7. It is pivoted on.

The pattern plate 11 is located above a protrusion 16 protruding from the inner surface of the case 2 and is slidably supported by the protrusion 16.

In the example of the drawing, the pattern board 11 is
The locking portion 12 can slide up and down with respect to the bar 13,
In addition, by positioning the pattern plate 11 slightly above the protrusion 16, the interval between the pattern plates 11 can be changed while keeping the pattern plate 11 parallel to the grill 7.

In the drawing, reference numeral 17 denotes a grill
Inside, it is a spring which always urges backward.

[0016]

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a state in which a pan 18 is baked by the oven toaster 1 of the present invention.

In this state, the door 3 is pivoted upward to close the opening 4, whereby the grill 7 is moved rearward, and the projections 9 of the grill 7 are connected to the rear end of the slit 10. It is located in.

A pan 18 is placed on the grill 7, and a pattern plate 11 is placed on the pan 18. FIG. 1 shows a state in which a relatively thick bread 18 is baked. However, when the bread 18 is thin, the bar 13 slides inside the locking portion 12 and the pattern plate 11 can move downward. 11 is always bread 1 regardless of the thickness of bread 18
8.

When the heaters 5 and 6 are energized in this state,
The bread 18 is heated and baked from both upper and lower surfaces. At this time, since the pattern board 11 is placed on the upper surface of the bread 18,
In the portion where the pattern 15 of the metal plate 14 is punched,
Since the heat of the heater 5 directly acts on the pan 18, it is strongly heated and dark browns. Further, the portion where the metal plate 14 remains is shielded from the heat by the metal plate 14.
Is heated to a lesser extent, and the brown spots on the bread 18 become thinner, and the surface of the bread 18 shows a pattern due to the shading of the brown spots.

When the door 3 is opened forward after the bread 18 has been burnt, as shown in FIG. 3, the door 3 is pulled by the door 3 so that the grill 7 is pulled forward from the opening 4 and the door 3 and the slit 10 are opened. And the grill 7 moves to a lower position while keeping the horizontal state.

In the initial stage of the forward movement of the grill 7, the pattern plate 11 moves forward while being placed on the pan 18, but the grill 7 moves downward, so that the pattern plate 11 is moved to the side of the pattern plate 11. The edge hooks on the projection 16.

Thereafter, when the grill 7 moves further forward and downward, the central portion of the pattern plate 11 cannot be moved downward by being supported by the projections 16, while the rear end of the pattern plate 11 is The pattern plate 11 is moved forward by sliding while being supported by the projections 16, and the front end of the pattern plate 11 is moved upward as shown in FIG. It is pulled out in the open state.

Accordingly, the bread 18 is pulled out with the pattern plate 11 removed from its upper surface, so that the hot pattern plate 11 is removed.
, The bread 18 can be taken out from the grill 7 and the next bread 18 can be placed on the grill 7.

When the pan 3 is placed on the grill 7 and the door 3 is closed, the movement of the door 3 and the action of the spring 17 cause
The grill net 7 moves rearward and upward while keeping the level, and the pattern plate 11 moves upward at its rear end with the projection 16 as a fulcrum. Placed on

[0025]

According to the present invention, an oven toaster 1
In the above, a pattern due to scorching can be displayed on the bread 18. The grill 7 moves back and forth in conjunction with the opening and closing of the door 3, and the baked bread 18 is placed on the grill 7 and pulled out, and the pattern board is linked with the longitudinal movement of the grill 7. 11 opens and closes, and the bread 18 can be taken in and out without touching the pattern board 11.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the pattern plate 11 is detachable from the grill 7 so that bread without a pattern can be baked by removing the pattern plate 11, and the bread can be used in addition to the toaster. The pattern board 11 does not get in the way even when cooking is performed.

In the third aspect of the present invention, the distance between the pattern plate 11 and the grill 7 is variable, so that the bread 1
The pattern plate 11 is always in the pan 18 regardless of the thickness of the
And the bread 18 with the pattern can always be baked appropriately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view showing an embodiment of an oven toaster of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a combined state of the grill and the pattern board in the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a central longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which a door is opened in the embodiment of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Oven toaster 2 Case 3 Door 5, 6 Heater 7 Grid net 11 Pattern board 16 Projection

Claims (3)

[Claims] A pair of upper and lower heaters (5, 6) are provided in a case (2), and a grill which moves back and forth between the heaters (5, 6) in conjunction with opening and closing of a front door (3). (7)
In the oven toaster (1), the moving path of the grill (7) is set to be higher at the rear and lower at the front, and the pattern plate (11) having a pattern punched out above the grill (7) is provided. ) And place the pattern board (1)
1) A projection (16) that rotatably supports the rear portion of the grill (7) on the rear portion of the grill (7), and that protrudes the side edge of the pattern plate (11) from the inner surface of the case (2). The pattern board (11) also moves back and forth along with the grill (7) that moves back and forth in conjunction with the opening and closing of the door (3), and the pattern is formed by the action of the projections (16). An oven toaster characterized in that the plate (11) has its front part pivoted upward with respect to the grill (7). 2. The oven toaster as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pattern plate (11) is detachably supported on a grill (7). 3. The oven toaster according to claim 1, wherein the pattern plate is attached to the grill so that the distance between the two is variable.