Improved food appliance and a coding system therefor
CA 2328963 A1 · Owner: Yung, Simon Kwok Choi · Inventors: Yung, Simon Kwok Choi
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A versatile food appliance includes a set of hardware components common to a plurality of single-purpose food appliances. The set of hardware components is controlled by a microcontroller executing a program from a repertoire thereof stored in the general-purpose food appliance. Many processing programs are stored for operating the appliance in different modes and for processing different kinds of food by using different ingredients. Each processing program is assigned a code and can be selected by specifying the code associated with it from a control panel. The programs may be further modified parametrically by a group of process parameters. Ingredients to be used in each of the …
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- Filed April 16, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 16, 2019.
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