Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1977-12-02
1979-05-15
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
99353, 99427, 99443C, A47J 3712
Patent
active
041541537
ABSTRACT:
A taco fryer in which an endless conveyor having a pair of parallel drive chains connected by spaced parallel transverse rods with flexible porous web sections extending between the rods has a portion passing through an elongated vat of cooking oil. Each rod pivotally supports a plunger which rotates between an open position extending away from the web and a closed position lying in contact with the web between the rods. Movement of the conveyor is by a single pair of drive sprockets which engage the respective chains where they pass along a pair of spaced longitudinal slots. As the chains emerge from the slots under the force of the drive sprockets, support of the rods and associated plungers and web section is transferred to spaced tracks. The compressive force on the chains as they are pushed out of the slots causes the chains to buckle and the rods to move together, thereby successively collapsing the sections of web between the rods. Each plunger is tilted from the open position to the closed position prior to the associated rod passing the sprocket drive, so that each folded section of web wraps around the plunger. A tortilla placed on the surface of the web between each adjacent pair of rods is thus folded around the plunger as it enters the cooking oil.
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Henderson Arthur O.
Hornsby Harvey C.
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