Deep fat frying apparatus with improved under-fryer cooking liquid pumping and filtration system
US4974501A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 20, 1990 |
| Grant date | Dec 4, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 20, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S210/08
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A deep fat fryer structure includes a floor mounted housing having an upper internal portion in which a side-by-side pair of large capacity metal frypots are operatively supported, each of the frypots having an upper, heated cooking portion from which an unheated well depends. Cooking liquid may be drained from the wells for filtration purposes by a valved drainage conduit system having an open outlet end. Filtered cooking liquid may be returned to the upper frypot portions, or their depending cold wells, through a valved supply conduit system connected to the outlet of a height-adjustable filtration pump disposed within a lower rear portion of the housing. An open-topped, wheel supported overflow pan nestingly receives an open-topped cooking liquid receiving container and may be rolled into the housing directly beneath the frypots to receive cooking liquid drained therefrom, the receiving container having a filtration structure supported on its bottom wall. Aligned outlet openings in the bottom walls of the overflow pan in the receiving container are sealingly communicated by interenagable O-ring slip fitting members which permit cooking liquid downflow through the outlet openings…
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