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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1999
Alan Sherman, St. Louis, MO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A toaster includes a toaster body having a top wall, at least one toasting chamber in the top wall, a bottom, side walls, and end walls. A seat is adjacent to, and extends along at least a portion of one of the side walls (and preferably along both of the side walls). The seat allows toast to be placed in contact with the wall of the toaster to be kept warm by heat radiating through the toaster wall. In one embodiment, the seat is simply an exposed shelf. In another embodiment, the seat forms a bottom surface of an enclosed warming chamber. The warming chamber is defined by an outer wall which is spaced from the toaster body side wall, a top wall, a front wall, a back wall, and the seat. A door is provided to allow access to the chamber. Preferably, the door can be removed from the toaster. The toaster includes oversized controls (a start lever and a darkness control lever) to allow the controls to be easily seen and manipulated. To make the controls even easier to be seen, the color of the control levers will contrast with the color of the toaster body.