(under subclass 324) Cooking apparatus provided with means to initiate, maintain and/or terminate an operation thereof in accordance with the functioning of timing means and/or condition-responsive means.
(1) Note. For purposes of this classification, the timing mechanism must be of the chronometric type, normally found, per se, in Class 368, Horology: Time Measuring Systems or Devices, and not mere cycling means, such as a cam device, nor a thermal time delay device, such as an independently heated thermostat.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
280+, for beverage infusors having automatic controls.
285, and 342+, for cooking apparatus having timing means to actuate signals or alarms.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 73, Measuring and Testing,
29.02+, for hygrometers and hygrostats.
126, Stoves and Furnaces,
351, and 374 for automatic control of liquid heating vessels.
219, Electric Heating,
446.1+, for an electrical heating device having an exposed planar support surface (e.g., hot plate, etc.) having a sensor means that may also include condition responsive means.
236, Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation, appropriate subclasses.
337, Electricity: Electrothermally or Thermally Actuated Switches,
