Patent ID: 6279466
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
An upright toaster having a casing, a plurality of heating elements within the casing spaced from one another, a plurality of wire guards, one located beside each heating element in each space between two adjacent heating elements, the wire guards being made from material which is flexible with a natural spring such as to restore them to an unstressed condition when they are moved from it, adjacent wire guards in a common space between two heating elements defining between them a slot for receiving bread to be toasted, the wire guards defining at least one of the slots having arms which slope downwardly and inwardly of said slot so that said at least one slot is wider at its top than at its bottom, which arms are movable outwardly of the at least one slot at the bottom of the slot to increase the width of said slot at the bottom, the natural spring of the material of each such guard acting to restore the guard to a position in which its arm slopes downwardly and inwardly of said slot after it has been displaced from such position.