Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Combined
Patent
1992-02-11
1994-05-31
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Combined
99327, 99407, 99451, 99476, 99483, 219214, 219400, 221 82, 221150A, 221203, A47J 3700
Patent
active
053159195
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an arrangement for the frying or warming of articles of food which mainly comprise small parts which are loose with regard to each other. Examples of such articles of food are french fries, chips, little potato balls, croquettes, bake ware and similar.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
With the arrangement according to the invention the articles of food have already fried beforehand and/or are provided with a small coating of fat; frying or warming according to the invention is done by means of infrared and/or hot air.
Such an arrangement is known from patent application WO-A-86/07648. The articles of food are fried or warmed in a receptacle which rotates around a vertical axis. Organs hang in the receptacle and take care that the articles of food are continuously in movement. The receptacle, however, must make a downward movement before being filled with articles of food and in order to be emptied the receptacle must make a downward movement and a rotation around a horizontal axis. Hence the filling and emptying requires a complex mechanism which harms the compactness of the arrangement.
A similar arrangement is further known from patent application WO-A-89/10085. Here the receptacle rotates around an oblique axis. The bottom of the receptacle is provided with roughnesses which take care for the continuous movement of the articles of food. The filling of the arrangement is done rather simply by means of a funnel and a blockable slide. This funnel and slide are above the obliquely arranged recipient. This increases the distance between heating elements and the articles of food and harms the thermal efficiency of the arrangement. On the other hand, a--although limited--rotation of the receptacle is still necessary for the emptying of the receptacle. This rotation is further only possible for a limited dimension of the receptacle. If the receptacle is greater, it has to make a downward movement before rotation can start. This complicates the required mechanism and harms the compactness. Another drawback is that when the receptacle returns to the frying position after emptying, the partitions of the receptacle must form a good shutting off with the bell-glass, otherwise hot air gets lost during frying or heating. Such a shutting off is not always easy to realize.
Still another drawback of the above-mentioned arrangements according to the state of the art is that the arrangements are only suited to fry or to warm one determined quantity of articles of food each turn. If one wishes to fry or to warm a greater quantity, more frying or warming turns are necessary.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to avoid the above drawbacks.
The present invention provides an arrangement for frying or warming articles of food which mainly comprise small parts which are loose with regard to each other. The arrangement comprises a receptacle where the articles of food may be introduced. This receptacle comprises a bottom which may be subjected to a rotation around a central, oblique axis. The bottom comprises separate segments which are separated from each other. At least a part of the bottom of each segment is jointed for pivotal movement into an open condition to empty the fried or warmed articles of food.
The advantage of such an arrangement is that the arrangement may receive, warm or fry and deliver separate portions. The maximum number of portions which may be treated simultaneously is equal to the number of segments. But it is also possible to treat a smaller number of portions.
According to a preferable embodiment of the invention, the arrangement is further provided with a stationary plate and with at least one bottom cut off valve. The stationary plate is underneath the bottom and comprises at least one recess which allows the pivoting of the bottom each segment. The bottom of cut off valve is also underneath the bottom, is rotatable around the central axis and is able to prohibit the pivoting of a segment if the bottom cut off valve is at the leve
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Hoeberigs Jean M. M.
Simone Timothy F.
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