Abstract:
A bread maker including a main body having an oven compartment with a front opening, a door to open and close the front opening of the oven compartment, a pair of kneading drums spaced apart from each other inside the oven compartment and winding a mixing bag filled with ingredients for bread thereon, a drum driver driving the kneading drums to rotate, a heater heating the inside of the oven compartment, and a heater driver driving the heater to operate. The bread maker includes a door sensor sensing whether the door is open or closed; and a controller controlling the drum driver and the heater driver to suspend the kneading drum and the heater, respectively, when the door sensor senses that the door is open. With this configuration, the bread maker and a method of controlling the same, suspends heaters and kneading drums when a door is open while the bread maker operates, thereby increasing safety and decreasing loss of heat and electrical energy.
Abstract:
A bread maker having upper and lower rollers, a baking tray, a housing forming an oven chamber, a door attached to the front of the housing, a baking tray detachably mounted in the oven chamber, and a sensor. The sensor senses whether the baking tray is mounted in the oven chamber. The sensor is mounted in at least one of the housing and the door and moves back and forth a predetermined distance depending on contact with the baking tray. A sensing switch which senses the movement of the sensor.
Abstract:
A bread maker having a main body forming an oven compartment, a door, a pair of parallel kneading drums, a barcode reader to read a barcode printed on a mixing bag and a reader holder. The reader holder includes a holder body, a sensing lever adjacent to a kneading drum with one end connected to one end of the holder body and the other end protruding from the main body towards the door, the sensing lever being pushed back by the door when the door is closed, and a reader supporting part extending from the holder body towards the door and supporting the barcode reader. The barcode reader moves into a reading position near the adjacent kneading drum when the door is opened and moves into a releasing position distant from the adjacent kneading drum when the door is closed.
Abstract:
A bread maker including a main body divided into an oven compartment and an electric component compartment; a pair of parallel kneading drums spaced apart from each other inside the oven compartment, each kneading drum having a holding part holding opposite ends of a mixing bag containing ingredients for bread, and reversing rotary direction periodically; a drum driving part in the electric component compartment rotating the kneading drums in clockwise and counterclockwise directions; a kneading drum control part allowing a user to control rotation of the kneading drums as desired; and a controller controlling the drum driving part to rotate the kneading drums according to user control of the kneading drum control part.
Abstract:
A bread maker includes upper and lower rollers and a bar code scanner. The upper and lower rollers wind a mixing bag containing bread ingredients to form dough. The bar code scanner reads a bar code attached to the mixing bag so that, as the mixing bag is wound by rotation of the upper and lower rollers, the bar code scanner reads the bar code while being in contact with the bar code wound around one of the upper and lower rollers. The upper roller includes flat and arcuate portions. The flat portion is provided with an arcuate guide section to form a circular track together with the arcuate portion.
Abstract:
A bread maker with hot air circulating means, comprises a housing defining the outer appearance of the bread maker; a baking oven; a bread barrel; a stirring bar; a drive mechanism; a upper assembly; a control panel assembly; a control unit and a circulating means being mounted on the side wall of the baking oven, and the air communication port of the circulating means being disposed on the position adjacent to the inlet and outlet of the baking oven. The circulating means comprises a fan and an air duct. The fan is mounted inside of said air duct and an air communicating port of the air duct is disposed adjacent to the inlet and outlet of the baking oven. The air inlet and outlet of the baking oven are formed on the side wall of the baking oven. The hot air inside of the baking oven is directed into a loop airflow by the rotation of the fan disposed in the circulating means. The bread maker of the present invention allows the bread barrel to be evenly heated and the color of the baked bread is evenly distributed. Moreover, the maker of the present invention is easily put into practical use and is bound to be competitive in the market.
Abstract:
A bagel making apparatus for making bagels at home either by baking or boiling the dough. The bagel making apparatus includes a housing having a front side wall, back side wall, a top side, a top wall covering a portion of the top side, end walls, a bottom wall, an opening in the top side, and a baking chamber being disposed therein with the housing further having a water container compartment disposed therein and being accessible through the opening in the top side and with the front side wall having an opening extending therethrough into the baking chamber of the housing; and also includes a lid having a main wall, side walls, and end walls, one of the end walls being hingedly attached to the back side wall with the lid being closeable over the opening in the top side with the lid further having a plurality of apertures being spaced apart and extending through the main wall and further having a handle securely attached to the other of the end walls; and further includes a drawer-like tray support member being slidable into the baking chamber through the opening in the front side wall; and also includes tray members being removably supported upon the drawer-like tray support member; and further includes a heating assembly for heating the baking chamber and the water container compartment for making bagels; and also includes a bagel hole maker for making holes in the bagels.
Abstract:
A bread making machine having an automated dispenser unit and a pause function is described. The automated dispenser unit is integrated within a chamber lid covering a bread making chamber in which bread making ingredients are mixed, kneaded, and baked. The automated dispenser accepts certain ingredients, such as fruit and/or nuts, which are automatically added to the bread making chamber after significant processing of other ingredients in the bread making chamber has occurred. The automatic dispenser unit includes a dispenser door adjacent to the bread making chamber. The dispenser door is held in a closed position by a latch assembly. The latch assembly is mechanically linked to a solenoid core, which moves in response to a control signal issued by electronic control circuitry, causing the dispenser door to open. The bread making machine includes a pause function, which allows a user to temporarily suspend the bread making operation at any time, by pressing a pause key on a user interface keyboard. The bread making operation resumes after a selected time interval has elapsed. The selected time interval may be determined either by the user or by the electronic control circuitry.
Abstract:
A metallic supplementary pot having superior heat conductivity is newly provided which is attached in the conventional nonmetallic specialized pot which is placed on a turn table mechanism of the microwave oven. When bread is made in the microwave oven, the supplementary pot containing material is attached in the specialized pot before cooking, and the specialized pot is attached to the drive shaft of the turn table mechanism in the oven cavity. Since the tip of the drive shaft is fit into the supplementary pot in this case, a vane member is attached to the drive shaft in the supplementary pot. When cooking is started, the vane member is turned with the rotation of the drive shaft and the material is kneaded into dough. Thereafter, the dough is heated uniformly and in a short time in the supplementary pot, and bread is completed. Since the inner circumferential surface of the supplementary pot is provided with a fluorine resin coating, the material is not adhered to the inner circumferential surface, and it can smoothly be removed from the supplementary pot. Further, easy cleaning of the supplementary pot is ensured.
Abstract:
An automatic convection heating baking apparatus for bread or cake making with greatly improved automatic-baking quality is disclosed. Baking in this apparatus is achieved by two hot air streams each covering about half of the baking chamber space. Hot air circulation is produced by forming suction and blowing regions within the baking chamber by placing an electric fan within a single ventilation compartment. The machine is compact and low-cost since only a single electric fun is needed to cause circulation and to produce two hot air streams, premature hot air return to the ventilation compartment is prevented by using air-regulating means. Dual timer for mixing and baking is provided to improve cake fluffiness by controlling heating during ingredient mixing.