Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1989-01-03
1991-05-28
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
62159, 62380, 99327, 99330, 99357, 99404, 99407, 99443C, 99477, 99517, 134134, 134126, 1983461, A47J 3712
Patent
active
050184385
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
Cooking and cooling transfer apparatus at will for automatic introduction and evacuation of containers which contain foods or products having a variable duration of cooking and cooling.
There are known processes of steam cooking tunnels or submerged water which are continuous, and likewise apparatus or containers containing the products to be cooked, are displaced by chains or by rollers by gravity, accomplishing a cooking cycle. These cookings follow one behind the other, and each has its own time determined by the product to be cooked, one can therefore not mix the products, each product having its predetermined cooking duration different from one another.
The example of braised meat whose cooking is three hours, cannot be introduced with the "chicken" whose cooking is a half-hour. It is for this reason that these apparatus are required to cook by "cooking family".
The apparatus which will be described avoids all of these inconveniences.
It is constituted by a closed enclosure, containing a container, which can be filled to two levels of water, depending upon the desired cooking: low level for gentle steam cooking and high level submerged water cooking. This container is flow heated, by the desired means, electric gas manifold quills, or likewise by a double full envelope of oil heated by electric quills submerged in this thermal oil.
An introduction and evacuation conveyor brings baskets or containers provided with a handle, and carriers of the products to be cooked, in front of an access gate of the apparatus, this gate slides, and at this moment, a carrier arm, provided with a hook comes to sieze the basket to introduce it into the cooking container. Each basket being introduced one after the other can contain products having a different cooking duration.
This cooking having been programmed on a console, for each product of the basket, once this has ended, the carrier arm provided with the hook siezes the handle of the basket in the cooking container and evacuates through the gate and deposits it on the evacuation conveyor. Within the enclosure, a cover is activated by a motor axis, so as to lift it, to allow the basket to descend or to come out of the container. In the upper portion of the container a hood makes it possible to evacuate the vapors.
This apparatus thus makes it possible to introduce baskets, with products in a random cooking order, these cooking products with gentle steam or flowing can be different and placed side-by-side, without the odors becoming mixed, and by respectively keeping their vitamin and mineral salts.
The robot or carrier arm, having introduced the baskets in disorder, will likewise evacuate them in the same disorder, according to the times which will have been established by a programmable timer which will have put into the memory the cooking times. Thus, but way of example: the first introduction which has just been positioned can contain braised meat with a cooking time of three hours.
The second introduction can be frozen green beans with a duration of forty minutes of cooking.
The third can be chicken with a duration of thirty minutes cooking.
The fourth can be cauliflower with a duration of thirty-five minutes of cooking.
The fifth can be a fish with a duration of fifteen minutes of cooking.
And the sixth can be potatoes with a duration of twenty-five minutes of cooking.
It is thus that the basket introduces a fifth position and whose programmed time of fifteen minutes is the shortest, will be evacuated first, then the sixth introduction at a time of twenty five minutes, will be evacuated second, etc.
Once the products have been cooked and evacuated, one can imagine that an identical apparatus, but equipped with a refrigeration system will take these products in their basket, and will introduce them into the environment of a refrigerated enclosure, equipped with a cooling fan and compressor, evaporators being placed so as not to disturb the carrier robot-arm. The time of the cooling system being programmed in a manner identical to the cooking, but with the duratio
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