Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1995-10-16
1996-12-17
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
55DIG36, 126299D, 210167, 210DIG8, A47J 3638, A47J 3712
Patent
active
055842348
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to cooking appliances, such as fryers for domestic use for example, comprising an open casing able to be closed off by a lid, a cooking container disposed inside the casing and closed in a substantially sealed manner by the lid during the cooking phase, and a condensation device for cooking vapours placed outside the casing.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In known appliances of this type, the condensation device is generally mounted on the side of the casing and eliminates through condensation the vapours which are emitted during cooking and which contain unwanted odorous substances. This device of the condensing type constitutes in itself a particularly effective anti-odour device since it permits total and continuous elimination of vapours containing the unwanted odorous substances, and this outside the cooking appliance, in contrast with the conventional anti-odour filter incorporated in the lid of the apparatus.
For appliances of this type using as an anti-odour device a condensing device positioned laterally on the casing containing the cooking container, it then proves necessary to establish, between the container and the condensing device, a narrow passage suitable for allowing the outflow or discharge of the cooking vapours through the closed casing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention therefore proposes to produce, in a simple and active manner, this passage designed for the outflow of cooking vapours from the cooking container to the condensing device.
According to the invention, this result is attained owing to the fact that the cooking appliance, of the type outlined above, also comprises at least one outflow duct for the cooking vapours connecting the upper volume of the cooking container to the condensation device, and having a so-called upstream section which forms an integral part of the lid and whose two ends each open out from the said lid, one of these ends of the upstream section opening out into the upper volume of the container, and a so-called downstream section which connects the other end of the upstream section to the condensation device.
Through this integration of the upstream section of the duct into the lid, a path for the cooking vapours within the lid is obtained which is simple, easy to establish, and perfectly channelled. Such simplicity of design is, moreover, well suited to the mass-production of appliances.
The lid is preferably mounted so as to be removably hinged on a top edge of the casing, so that, once removed, the lid including the upstream section of the duct is easily cleanable, even in a dishwasher.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will, moreover, emerge from the description that follows of a particular embodiment taken as a non-limitative example, illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic perspective view of a cooking appliance, such as a fryer, according to the invention, the lid being open; and
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view in vertical section, to a larger scale, of the fryer of FIG. 1, the lid being closed.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The cooking appliance shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 1 and 2 is a domestic fryer which comprises a casing or receptacle 1, substantially parallelepipedal in shape, having, at a short distance from its top edge 2, an opening 3 in which is placed a metal container 4 containing a cooking bath 5. The casing 1 is supported by a base 6, preferably produced in a single piece with the casing, and is designed to be closed off by a lid 8, of thickness e, mounted so as to be removably hinged on the flat top face 9 of the casing by means of demountable hinge means (not shown).
The lid 8 has on its internal face 10 a joint 11, shaped so as to produce a seal between the lid and the cooking container 4 when the lid is closed.
The casing 1, the base 6 and the lid 8 are moulded from a plastic material such as, for example, polypropylene, which is particularly economical and easy t
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Baillieul Philippe L. R.
Bouffay Alain
Chartrain Pierre
Collas Guy
Moulinex (S.A.)
Simone Timothy F.
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