Editing Toaster (section)

=== Dual-side toasting and automated pop-up technologies ===
[[File:United States patent 1,394,450, "Bread-Toaster", 1921.pdf|thumb|[[United States patent law|United States patent]] #1,394,450. "Bread-Toaster", patented 18 October 1921 by [[Charles Strite]].]]
In 1913, [[Lloyd Groff Copeman]] and his wife Hazel Berger Copeman applied for various toaster patents, and in that same year, the Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced a toaster with an automatic bread turner.<ref name="lloydcopeman">{{cite web |url=http://www.lloydcopeman.com/biography/bio3.html |title=Lloyd Groff Copeman |author=Copeman, Kent L. |publisher=LloydCopeman.com |access-date=18 October 2011}}</ref> Before this, electric toasters cooked bread on one side, meaning the bread needed to be flipped by hand to cook both sides. Copeman's toaster turned the bread around without having to touch it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/lloyd-groff-copeman-the-patent-man/ |title=Lloyd Groff Copeman: The Patent Man |work=Absolute Michigan |publisher=Leelanau Communications, Inc |date=5 May 2006 |access-date=18 October 2011}}</ref>

The automatic pop-up toaster, which ejects the toast after toasting it, was first patented by [[Charles Strite]] in 1921.<ref>[[:File:United States patent 1,394,450, "Bread-Toaster", 1921.pdf|United States patent 1,394,450, "Bread-Toaster", 1921]]</ref> In 1925, using a redesigned version of Strite's toaster, the Waters Genter Company introduced the Model 1-A-1 Toastmaster,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.toaster.org/tmaster_when.html |title=Toastmaster Toasters: When They Were Made |publisher=Toaster Museum Foundation |access-date=19 October 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929100544/http://www.toaster.org/tmaster_when.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> the first automatic, pop-up, household toaster that could brown bread on both sides simultaneously, set the [[heating element]] on a timer, and eject the toast when finished.{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}