Breville Pty Limited

Duncan Bruce Hellmers

Stephen John Mcclean

Pierce James Barnard

Johnson Thie

Richard Lehonde Hoare

Gerard Andrew White

Stephen J McClean

Norman Oliveria

Giovanni Baez

Robert Grassia

Con Psarologos

Tristan Brega

James George Morton

Ali Tofaili

Andrew Robert Morgan

Tee Smith

Caroline Valentina Vasta

Sam Walker

Alastair Dover

Sathia Thangamuthu

Philip McKnight

Eugenie Barnet

Andrew Domenic Gregorace

Stephen John McClean

Caroline Valentina

A kitchen device () having: a base () with a coupling () for receiving an accessory (), the accessory () comprising a magnet and being configured for performing an operation when operated by the kitchen device (); a controller configured to operate the kitchen device (), and thereby the accessory (), to perform the operation; and a magnetometer located in the base () and configured to interact with the magnet when the accessory () is coupled to the base () to provide an accessory signal indicative of a presence of the accessory () to the controller, wherein the magnetometer comprises a magnetoresistor.

Kitchen device having a magnetometer

A slow cooking appliance device. The device including: a body having a base, the body receives within it a removable cooking vessel; a movable heating element supported by the base; and a lift mechanism within the base for raising and lowering the movable heating element, such that the heating element is movable between an upper position and a lowered position.

Slow cooker

An appliance including: a vessel to receive a liquid, the vessel having a longitudinal axis, a bottom wall, and a side wall at least partly enclosing a chamber within which the liquid is heated, the chamber having an upper region axially spaced from the bottom wall, and a lower region located between the bottom wall and the upper region; a heating element within the chamber; a heater base including at least a portion of an induction coil; connections to deliver an alternating current to the induction coil to deliver a magnetic field to the lower region; the element being movable relative to the coil between an operative position at which the element is located within the lower region to be energised by the magnetic field to cause heating of the element, and an inoperative position at which the element is located in the upper region to not energize the element.

Induction kettle

A decanting vessel has an internal pump for recirculating a beverage such as wine and aerating it within the decanter.

Wine decanter

An induction heating circuit for an appliance, the induction heating circuit comprising: an AC power supply with an AC monitoring output connected to the active line of the AC power supply, the AC monitoring output providing an indication of current being drawn from the AC power supply; a control circuit comprising at least one processor and a semiconductor current sensor, the semiconductor current sensor arranged to i) detect the current being drawn from the AC power supply and ii) output an output voltage based on the detected current; and an induction driving circuit for driving an inductor of the appliance comprising a semiconductor switch, wherein the semiconductor switch is controlled by the processor based on, at least, the output voltage.

Induction heating circuit, protection circuit and cooling system for an appliance

There is disclosed herein a frothing assembly () to froth milk in a container (). The assembly () includes: a body (); a motor () fixed to the body and having an output shaft () that is rotatably driven about a longitudinal axis () of the shaft (); a frothing device () rotatably driven by the shaft () and to be submerged in the milk in the container (); and a perforated member () at least partly surrounding the frothing device () and spaced from the frothing device () by a clearance (), wherein rotation of the frothing device () causes movement of milk in the clearance () and movement of milk through the perforated member () to be circulated back through the container () and the clearance () to cause frothing of the milk.

Milk frothing device

A coffee puck removal device () to remove a coffee puck () from a portafilter () is disclosed herein. The coffee puck removal device () has an open compartment () containing the coffee puck (), the coffee puck () having an exposed major outer face () and a major inner face () when the coffee puck () is located in the open compartment (). The device () includes: a body () having a rim () surrounding an aperture (), with the rim () being configured to engage the portafilter (), with the open compartment () facing the body () to inhibit air passing between the portafilter () and the rim (); and a vacuum source () to remove air from the aperture () so that air pressure applied to the major inner face () is greater than air pressure applied to the exposed major outer face () so that the coffee puck () is removed from the portafilter ().

Coffee puck removal device

There is disclosed herein a toaster () including: a housing (); a pair of opposing food guards () located within the housing () and defining a toasting cavity () for receiving foodstuff to be toasted; a pair of heating elements () located within the housing (), each heating element () being located on a respective side of the pair of food guards (), wherein each food guard () is spaced from the corresponding heating element () by a clearance (); and wherein each food guard () has an upwardly-extending portion () that extends upwardly to a portion () that extends transversely from the upwardly-extending portion so as to extend above the corresponding heating element (), the transversely-extending portion () of each food guard () projecting away from the opposing food guard ().

Toaster

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Alexandria, Australia

Duncan Bruce Hellmers