View source for US Patent 4538509: Automatic Bread Baking Machine

== Homework 1: My Selected Patent ==

Patent 4,538,509 <br>
Automatic bread baking machine <br>
Filing date: Jun 28, 1984 <br>
Issue date: Sep 3, 1985 <br>

This was the first patent for a bread maker issued in the United States.  This invention interests me because I enjoy baking and eating bread, and without this invention, home bread-baking would be much more tedious and difficult.  The patent claims a variety of things necessary for bread makers, such as a rotary dough kneader, a square-tubular baking pan, and a control panel.  However, the patent also claims some things that are no longer included in modern-day bread makers, like an ice cooled water tank.

The patent may be found at Google Patents here: [http://www.google.com/patents?id=gYs1AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]