CONTACT TOASTER WITH INFINITE ADJUSTMENT

摘要

A contact toaster has a housing (10) with a product inlet, product outlet and at least one toasting chamber (20) defined in the housing. A heated platen (19) is mounted in the housing and has a platen surface arranged for toasting the food products. A flexible endless belt (22), which when rotated, is arranged to pass the food products in a toasting path along the platen (19) between the belt (22) and the platen (19). An infinite controller (40) acts to selectively displace the belt to adjust the distance between the belt and the platen to any value between minimum and maximum distance limits to accommodate food products of different widths. A guide (21) is situated between the belt (22) and the infinite controller (40) so that the controller is in contact with at least one area of the guide. The infinite controller (40) includes a variable distance element (41A-41D) with a cam surface which is settable to any selected point of the cam surface between minimum and maximum cam radial limits to move the guide and belt to any belt to a selected platen distance that can have any value equal to or intermediate the maximum and minimum distance limits.