Patent Application
20180125297
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The disclosure and prior art relates to toasting devices and more particularly pertains to a new toasting device for toasting a depression into a bun.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a toaster that may have a plurality of buns positioned therein. The toaster is structured to form a depression in the buns. A heating coil is positioned within the toaster to toast the buns thereby facilitating the depression to be permanently toasted into the buns.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The top surface 18 has a pair of first wells 30 extending toward the bottom surface 20 and each of the first wells 30 has a bounding surface 32. The bounding surface 32 is concavely arcuate such that each of the first wells 30 has a hemispherical shape. Each of the first wells 30 is positioned closer to the front side 24 than the back side 26 and a top half 34 of the buns 14 is selectively positioned in a selected one of the first wells 30.
The top surface 18 has a pair of second wells 36 extending toward the bottom surface 20. Each of the second wells 36 has a lower bounding surface 38 intersecting with a peripheral bounding surface 40. The peripheral bounding surface 40 is concavely arcuate between the top surface 18 of the first panel 16 and the lower bounding surface 38. The lower bounding surface 38 is flattened and a bottom half 43 of the buns 14 may be positioned in a selected one of the second wells 36.
A second panel 44 is provided that has an upper surface 46, a lower surface 48 and an exterior edge 50 extending therebetween. The exterior edge 50 has a forward side 52 and a rearward side 54 and the rearward side 54 is hingedly coupled to the back side 26 of the first panel 16. The second panel 44 is selectively positioned in a closed position having the lower surface 48 abutting the top surface 18 of the first panel 16. Moreover, each of the first panel 16 and the second panel 44 are comprised of a thermally conductive material.
The lower surface 48 has a pair of first lobes 56 extending outwardly therefrom. Each of the first lobes 56 is convexly arcuate with respect to the lower surface 48 such that each of the first lobes 56 has a hemispherical shape. Each of the first lobes 56 is aligned with an associated one of the first wells 30 to form a depression 57 in the top half 34 of the buns 14 when the second panel 44 is closed. The lower surface 48 has a pair of second lobes 58 extending outwardly therefrom. Each of the second lobes 58 has a first surface 60 and the first surface 60 is flattened. Each of the second lobes 58 is aligned with an associated one of the second wells 36 to form a depression 57 in the bottom half 43 of the buns 14 when the second panel 44 is closed.
A heating coil 62 is provided and the heating coil 62 is positioned within the second panel 44 such that the heating coil 62 is in thermal communication with the second panel 44. The heating coil 62 is aligned with each of the first lobes 56 and each of the second lobes 58. The heating coil 62 heats the second panel 44 when the heating coil 62 is turned on to toast each of the top half 34 and the bottom half 43 of the buns 14. In this way the depression 57 formed in each of the top half 34 and the bottom half 43 of the buns 14 is permanently toasted into the bun. The heating coil 62 may be an electric heating coil 62 that has an operational temperature ranging between 150 degrees Fahrenheit and 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
A plurality of feet 64 is provided and each of the feet 64 is coupled to the bottom surface 20 of the first panel 16 and each of the feet 64 abuts the support surface 28. A handle 66 is coupled to the first panel 16 and the handle 66 may be gripped thereby facilitating the first panel 16 to be opened and closed. The handle 66 may be positioned on front side 24 of the first panel.
A power cord 68 is coupled to and extends outwardly from the second panel 44. The power cord 68 is electrically coupled to the heating coil 62 and the power cord 68 has a distal end 70 with respect to the second panel 44. A plug 72 is electrically coupled to the distal end 70 of the power cord 68 and the plug 72 may be electrically coupled to a power source 74. The power source 74 may be a female electrical outlet or the like.
A button 76 is coupled to the second panel 44 and the button 76 may be manipulated. The button 76 is electrically coupled to the heating coil 62 such that the button 76 turns the heating coil 62 on and off. The button 76 may be positioned on the forward side 52 of the second panel 44.
In use, the top half 34 of the buns 14 are each positioned in the first wells 30 and the bottom half 43 of the buns 14 are each positioned in the second wells 36. The first panel 16 is closed and the first lobes 56 form a depression 57 in the top half 34 of the buns 14. Each of the second lobes 58 forms a depression 57 in the bottom half 43 of the buns 14 when the first panel 16 is closed. The button 76 is manipulated to turn the heating coil 62 on. In this way the heating coil 62 permanently toasts the depression 57 into each of the top 34 and bottom 42 halves of the buns 14. The depression 57 in each of the top 34 and bottom 42 halves of the buns 14 contains condiments, meat, or other ingredients used to make a hamburger, sloppy joe or other bun based sandwich. In this way the depressions 58 inhibit the condiment, meat and other ingredients from sliding out of the buns 14 when the bun based sandwich is eaten.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
