Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With signal – indicator or tester
Patent
1996-10-23
1998-04-07
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With signal, indicator or tester
99330, 99353, 99357, 99407, A47J 2700, A47J 3700, A47J 3712, G01F 1100
Patent
active
057351929
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention object of this specification refers to an automatic French fries dispensing machine, that fries them cut in pieces rather than based on a previously formed mass, not ruling out other related applications such as to fry squid and fish pieces.
2. Description of Prior Art
It is fitted with a cold store with potato dosing equipment, being this equipment of the Roman balance type, frying device with filter and means to dispense containers, forks and bulk condiments from sauce and salt containers, machine in which, once the frying type and the condiments have been selected using the selector push buttons and the price of the desired portion or consecutive portions has been inserted in the cash collection slot, a frying procedure takes place at the completion of which an optical signalling device lights up and a sound emitting device goes off with the appropriate message and the various products are duly dispensed, an external access lid is lifted and the user--consumer, only has to remove the food tray and accompanying fork from the dispensing window or, consecutively, the various food trays requested.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
There are automatic machines, of the coin operated type, that fry potato pieces within them and then proceed to dispense them out, together with condiments selectively picked by the user, even if they are not widely used.
Normally these machines tend to operate using hot air, so that it would not be possible to refer to frying machines in the most strict sense. There are other machine types that do indeed fry the product, coinciding all of the above machines in that they share the same basic product, namely potato paste conveniently rehydrated and shaped in accordance with the size and taste predominant in the various countries in which they are used.
The applicant is not aware of any French fries dispensing machine, of the automatic coin operated type, that would actually fry previously peeled and cut up potatoes.
The frying machine is normally fitted with a radially turning blade distant from the resistance placed forming a dihedral angle and at the diagonal corner opposite to where the potato dosage feeding point is located, normally having a minimal water level, which is required to absorb the residual products of prior frying operations and to prevent any contamination to the flavour of the dispensed product.
The blade turning speed is regulated so that the selected cooking time matches a full blade rotation turn, so that at the end of its turn it will emerge under the fries, collect them, pull them out of the frying oil and lift them until the blade reaches its vertical position, when the force of gravity causes the fries to fall into the outlet hopper, centrally arranged in respect of the frier and with its slope slantingly arranged towards the outside.
Despite the fact that the cooking time is short, normally some forty to sixty seconds, depending upon the machine, it would nevertheless be appropriate to fit them with selective dispensing means, whether through the repetition of a second cycle overlapping the first one, through the simple introduction of twice as much money into the cash collection device or through a double serve, caused by the selection of two serves at the selector located at the front of the machine.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is a problem easily solved using conventional mechanical and electronic means, no other machine is known that would allow the user to purchase food for a companion without having to duplicate the handling and automatism operation cycles.
On the other hand, tray dispensing, from their piled up storage, tends to suffer from the sporadic but bothersome inconvenient of letting them drop slanted, so that the potato pieces fall out of their container and spread around the collection window, which is also the case with the sauce and salt containers, also normally dispensed by these machines, causing further inconvenience to users.
The reason for this is that the v
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Patatas Chef, S.L.
Schwartz Robert M.
Schwartz, PA Robert M.
Simone Timothy F.
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