Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1987-01-21
1988-06-07
Hunter, H. Hampton
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99341, 99357, 99404, 99407, 99443C, A47J 2700, A47J 3712, A23L 300
Patent
active
047489022
ABSTRACT:
A hot foot dispenser including structure for storing foodstuffs at below-freezing temperatures, transferring a portion of the foodstuffs from the storage structure to a cooking tank, and delivering the cooked foodstuff portions from the cooking tank after completion of a rapid cooking thereof to a dispensing position. Different forms of conveyors are illustrated for transferring the foodstuff portions selectively from any one of a plurality of different storage elements containing different foodstuffs as selected by a customer. Structure is provided for maintaining the cooking fluid sanitary. Structure is provided for effecting an automatic transfer of the cooked foodstuff portions to the dispensing position as an incident of the reception of a food-receiving receptacle thereat. Air circulating structure is provided for flowing air through the apparatus and filtering the air before discharging the same to ambient atmosphere. The food container may permit manual selection thereof or automatic delivery to the dispensing position in different forms of the disclosed invention. A condiment dispenser is provided for providing condiments onto the prepared foodstuffs in the receptacle, as desired by the customer. An auger-type dispenser for transferring foodstuff portions to the transfer structure is also disclosed.
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