Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1998-11-05
1999-12-07
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
99330, 126299D, 126391, A47J 3712
Patent
active
059964774
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FILED OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to apparatus for electrical cooking apparatus, such as for example deep fat fryers for household use, which comprise an open housing adapted to be closed by a cover during the cooking phase and which is provided with a base, a cooking vat disposed in the housing and heated by electrical heating means, and a device for condensation of the cooking vapors which is associated with said housing and which communicates with the vat by conduit means permitting the flow of cooking vapors.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For known cooking apparatus of this type, it has already been proposed to use a removable condensation device, of the heat exchange type, and adapted to eliminate the vapors containing bad smelling substances emitted in the course of cooking, against one of the external surfaces of the housing, and particularly the rear external surface of the housing, by suitable securement means. However, this mounting of the condensation device is difficult to carry out and the securement members used are relatively complicated so as to ensure the permanent holding of the condensation device. Moreover, the fact of adding externally and intimately the condensation device to the housing of the cooking apparatus contributes to rendering particularly cumbersome the apparatus thus provided with its condensation device, and considerably impairs the usual appearance of the cooking apparatus in question, for example a deep fat fryer.
The invention has in particular the object of overcoming these drawbacks.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, an electrical cooking apparatus of the type described above, is more particularly characterized in that the condensation device is retractably mounted in the base of the housing.
Thus, the invention cleverly makes use of the existence of the base of the housing to incorporate therein in a simple manner the condensation device which, in the inserted position, is less cumbersome and fits in perfectly with the overall appearance of the cooking apparatus in question.
According to a preferred embodiment, the condensation device is horizontally slidably mounted in slideways disposed in a recess provided in the base of the housing, and is removable.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The characteristics and advantages of the invention will become more apparent from the description which follows, by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view in vertical cross section of an electrical cooking apparatus, such as a deep fat fryer, according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view partially in perspective, on an enlarged scale, of the condensation device of FIG. 1, showing the refrigerating box in open position; and
FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the cooking apparatus of FIG. 1, without the cover of the housing.
The electrical cooking apparatus 1 shown schematically in FIG. 1 is a household electric deep fat fryer which comprises an open housing or receptacle 3, of generally substantially parallelepipedal shape, in which is disposed a metallic vat 5 adapted to be heated by electrical heating means, such as a heating resistance 6, and containing a frying bath 7. The housing 3 is supported at its bottom 8 by a base 10, better shown in FIG. 3, also of substantially parallel-epipedal shape and preferably made of a single piece with the housing, and is adapted to be closed, during frying, by a cover 12 mounted swingably removably on an upper edge 13 of the housing thanks to disassemblable articulation means (not shown).
The cover 12 comprises on its internal surface a joint 14 shaped so as to provide sealing between the vat 5 and the cover 12 when the latter is closed, as shown in FIG. 1.
The housing 3, the base 10 and the cover 12 are molded of a plastic material such as for example polypropylene which is particularly economical and easy to use.
The fryer 10, FIG. 1, also comprises a vapor condensation device, of the heat exchange type, design
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Bois Bernard Marcel
Collas Guy
Moulinex (S.A.)
Simone Timothy
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