Automatic bread maker and ingredient box for the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10426173-B2
Application number	US-201615250060-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2016
Priority date	Sep 19, 2012
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

An automatic bread maker includes a housing; a baking pan disposed inside the housing to mix or heat bread ingredients and disposed with an upwardly facing entrance; and a hanging rack disposed inside the housing that accommodates a bread ingredient box and a stock bin disposed below the hanging rack and above the upwardly facing entrance. The hanging rack is disposed with a sawtooth blade that faces upwardly to pierce the bread ingredient box and the stock bin is disposed with a drop opening that faces the upwardly facing entrance and that has a size that is smaller than that of the entrance so that, when the bread ingredient box is pierced, the bread ingredients drop down into the stock bin, and wherein a driver is further disposed to control opening and closing of a cover of the stock bin to discharge at least a portion of the bread ingredients.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An automatic bread maker, comprising:
a housing;
a baking pan disposed inside the housing to mix and heat bread ingredients and disposed with an entrance that is upwardly facing; and
a hanging rack disposed inside the housing that accommodates a bread ingredient box and a stock bin disposed above the hanging rack and above the entrance of the baking pan;
wherein the hanging rack is disposed with a sawtooth blade that faces upwardly to pierce the bread ingredient box and the stock bin is disposed with a drop opening that faces the entrance and that has a size that is smaller than that of the entrance so that, when the ingredient box is pierced, the bread ingredients of the bread ingredient box drop down into the stock bin,
wherein the stock bin includes a tubular wall and a cover coupled to the drop opening of the stock bin at a bottom portion of the tubular wall, and
wherein a driver is further disposed to control opening and closing of the cover of the stock bin relative to the tubular wall to discharge at least a portion of the bread ingredients contained inside the stock bin through the drop opening when the driver opens the cover or to retain the bread ingredients contained inside the stock bin when the driver closes the cover.

2. A bread ingredient box applied in the automatic bread maker according to claim 1 , wherein the bread ingredient box with bread ingredients inside is disposed with a hard side wall having two ends that are respectively disposed with a first wall that is a film that can be pierced and a second wall, and wherein the film is applied together with the sawtooth blade of the hanging rack so that, when the second wall is pressed down, the sawtooth blade pierces the film of the first wall.

3. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the film has a thickness that ranges from 0.01 to 0.05 mm.

4. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the film has a shape that is coupled to that of the sawtooth blade.

5. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the bread ingredient box has two accommodating rooms, and two first walls that respectively correspond to the accommodating rooms, and wherein one accommodating room of the two accommodating rooms is loaded with the bread ingredients and another accommodating room of the two accommodating rooms is loaded with bread accessory materials including fruit.

6. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the bread ingredient box has an exterior that is disposed with a formula mark that is machine readable.

7. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the first wall is disposed in a plane, and wherein the film is coupled to a periphery of a top surface of a mouth of the bread ingredient box.

8. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the hard side wall of the accommodating room has an inclined surface that gradually widens from top to bottom or an inclined surface that widens in sections.

9. The bread ingredient box according to claim 8 , wherein the inclined surface gradually widens and has an angle of inclination that ranges from 3° to 20°.

10. The bread ingredient box according to claim 8 , wherein the inclined surface gradually widens and has an angle of inclination that is 7°.

11. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the hard side wall has a rectangular shape.

12. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the second wall and the hard side wall are applied with respective hard materials that differ.

13. The bread ingredient box according to claim 2 , wherein the second wall and the side wall are applied with respective hard materials that are the same.

Assignees

• Tsann Kuen Zhangzhou Entpr Co

Inventors

• Zhang Zhonghua
• Gao Shangqian
• Cui Fudong
• Chen Shihchin

Classifications

• A21C1/02

  with vertically-mounted tools; Machines for whipping or beating · CPC title

• A21B7/005 Primary

  in combination with mixing or kneading devices · CPC title

• A21D8/00

  Methods for preparing or baking dough (treatment of flour or dough by adding materials A21D2/00) · CPC title

• A21D10/002

  Dough mixes; Baking or bread improvers; Premixes · CPC title

• A21C1/006

  Methods · CPC title