Patent ID: 8109206
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: A21B,A47J

Abstract:
1. A waffle iron comprising an upper baking sub-assembly and a lower baking sub-assembly, both of said baking sub-assemblies each comprising an electrical heating resistance and having a baking plate, each said baking plate having teeth oriented in a direction of teeth on the other baking plate when both upper and lower baking sub-assemblies are in closed proximate position, and throats which delimit said teeth, each upper and lower baking sub-assembly being pivotable with respect to one another between an open position allowing a deposit of a swelling dough to be baked and a removal of a waffle, and said closed proximate position in which they define a baking chamber extending between said teeth and throats and which, when heated, said dough swells and reaches the upper baking plate, the lower baking sub-assembly bearing an outer peripheral wall which extends in a direction of said upper baking sub-assembly when in the closed proximate position and which laterally delimits said baking chamber, said upper baking sub-assembly having an outer peripheral wall which extends in a direction opposite said lower baking sub-assembly, which is disposed in an opening defined by said outer peripheral wall of said lower baking sub-assembly, and which slides inside said outer peripheral wall of said lower baking sub-assembly irrespective of the position of the two baking sub-assemblies between the closed proximate position and a closed spread position in which they are spread from one another due to swelling of the dough which pushes the upper baking sub-assembly upwards, so as to form the baking chamber with a variable volume.