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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2000
David Wanat, Meriden, CT (US);
Arthur J. Sansone, Stamford, CT (US);
Theodore B. Mulle, New Milford, CT (US);
Conair Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A toaster broiler oven with an NTC temperature probe located within the oven chamber and a controller that controls the heater of the oven in a thermostat operation for non-toasting modes and in a variable toasting interval length operation in the toasting mode. When the toaster start switch is activated in the toast mode, the controller determines if the oven chamber temperature is greater than a predetermined temperature, such as room temperature. If not, a first toast interval is selected. If so, a second shorter toast interval is selected. The length of the second interval is chosen so that the toaster oven consistently produces toast of a selected color from one toast cycle to the next, regardless of the elapsed time between consecutive toast cycles.