Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1983-07-08
1984-12-18
Wilhite, Billy J.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99353, 99404, 99407, 99408, A47J 3712
Patent
active
044884788
ABSTRACT:
A frying unit for continuously frying potato chips and other snack foods such as corn chips and sweet potato chips is disclosed. The unit is compact, may be easily cleaned and serviced, and automatically controlled at an external control station. The unit consists of an elongated frying kettle covered by a hood and having, optionally, a slicer at an entrance end. A product delivery conveyor is disposed at an exit end. Twin paddle wheels are provided within the kettle for breaking up the sliced product as it enters an oil bath therein. Downstream of the paddle wheels a submersion conveyor is provided having depending flytes mutually spaced therealong for conveying the product through the oil bath to the delivery conveyor at the exit end. The entire product conveyor system, paddle wheels and conveyors may be pivoted upwardly as a unit, out of the kettle, by a linear actuator mounted on the external side thereof. A flexible drive coupling is provided to facilitate this pivotal movement. Oil within the kettle may be recirculated through a heat exchanger. Separately, oil within the kettle may be recirculated through a filter, and an oil level within the kettle is maintained automatically by an internal sensor which controls a filling means.
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J. C. Pitman Company, Inc.
Wilhite Billy J.
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