Patent ID: 6962290
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: A21B

Abstract:
1. A bread maker, comprising: a main body forming an oven compartment; a pair of parallel kneading drums spaced apart from each other inside the oven compartment, to which are attached opposite ends of a mixing bag containing ingredients, the kneading drums reversing rotary direction periodically; a bar code scanner near one of the kneading drums to read a bar code printed on, or applied to, the mixing bag; a drum driving part rotating the kneading drums in clockwise and counterclockwise directions; a bar code reading checking part sensing whether the bar code scanner is reading the bar code; and a controller determining whether the bar code scanner is reading the bar code based upon a sensed signal output from the bar code reading checking part, and controlling the drum driving part to rotate the kneading drums at a predetermined bar code reading speed while the bar code scanner reads the bar code, and to rotate the kneading drums at a dough kneading speed that is faster than the bar code reading speed when the bar code scanner has completely read the bar code.