Systems for buttering and toasting bread

US10427313B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Creator, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Aaron Engel-Hall · San Francisco, US
• Alexandros Vardakostas · San Francisco, US
• John Lawrence McDonald · Abilene, US
• Matthew Robert Williams · Carp, CA
• Steven Frehn · San Francisco, US
• Abigail Elizabeth Soong · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 1, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B26D7/34
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

One variation of a system for buttering and toasting bread buns includes: a butter stage including: a vessel containing liquefied dairy fat and defining a permeable surface, a pressure supply fluidly coupled to the vessel, and a first paddle assembly configured to catch a bun crown dispensed into the butter stage, to compress a sliced face of the bun crown directly against the permeable surface, and to release the bun crown from the butter stage; and a toast stage including a toasting surface arranged vertically below the permeable surface, a heating element arranged behind the toasting surface, and a second paddle assembly arranged vertically below the first paddle assembly and configured to catch the bun crown released from the first paddle assembly, to compress the sliced face of the bun crown directly against the toasting surface, and to release the bun crown from the toasting surface.