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		manaskarekar on Sept 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing Have you seen this patent on 'refreshing a bread product by heating ...': http://www.google.com/patents/US6080436?hl=en

yk on Sept 28, 2012 [–]

To be fair, that patent claims:

  b) setting the temperature of the heating elements 
  between 2500 F. and 4500 F

So it is using light bulbs to heat the bread. Which is somewhat imaginative compared to using an oven.

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