Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Imperforate sheet or griddle type
Patent
1986-10-21
1988-03-29
Kee Chi, James
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Imperforate sheet or griddle type
99424, 99353, A47J 3710, A21B 142
Patent
active
047336080
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to apparatus for manufacturing cooked foodstuffs and in particular to apparatus for manufacturing foodstuffs of the kind made from batter such as for example, crepes.
The traditional method of manufacturing crepes involves pouring a desired amount of pre-made batter into a preheated frying pan, manually wobbling the pan to distribute the batter evenly over the pan surface, placing the pan on a heat source to cook the underside of the crepe and then inverting the crepe to cook the other side. The traditional method requires particular culinary skills on the part of the chef in order to produce a good quality crepe. A good quality crepe according to the connoisseur is very thin and of an even thickness and whilst the present invention is not limited to apparatus exclusively for making crepes, it is intended to be capable of manufacturing a good quality crepe.
Various forms of apparatus have been proposed in the past for manufacturing foodstuffs of the general kind in consideration here such as pancakes, pikelets, crepes, and so called "skins" for use in making "chicken rolls" and the like. All the known forms of apparatus suffer from one or more of the following disadvantages. Either they are complex and hence costly to manufacture, they are not fully automatic in the sense that they still require an operator to perform some of the operations manually, or they are not capable of manufacturing a crepe of good quality as defined above. The complexity and hence cost of manufacture generally renders the known apparatus unsuitable for use as a domestic appliance and usually limits use to large commercial use or perhaps use in an industrial situation where foodstuffs are manufactured for sale as frozen foodstuffs.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved apparatus for manufacturing cooked foodstuffs of the kind made from batter, which apparatus overcomes one or more of the aforementiond disadvantages of known apparatus.
Accordingly, one broad form of the invention which may be preferred provides a machine for manufacturing cooked foodstuffs in the form of crepes and the like, characterized in that, said machine includes a first hot plate in the form of a rotatable disc, a pouring tube over said plate for dispensing a predetermined amount of a pre-made food mixture onto an upwardly directed cooking surface of said plate, said surface is inclined to the horizontal and has a shape adapted to form said mixture thereon into a substantially disc-like configuration during rotation, said pouring tube extends substantially radially over said plate and the direction of rotation relative to said tube is such as to carry said mixture upwardly on the slope of said inclined surface, the pouring tube being adapted to dispense a substantially constant quantity of mixture per surface area of the plate, whereby a substantially constant thickness of mixture is achieved on said surface, and said first hot plate is adapted for movement to an inverted position, when one side of said foodstuff is cooked, wherein said partly cooked foodstuff is released so as to fall onto a second hot plate for cooking the other side thereof.
In order that the invention may be more readily understood, one particular embodiment will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein,
FIG. 1 is a perspective front view of apparatus for manufacturing crepes,
FIG. 2 is a perspective rear view of the apparatus of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a perspective side view of the apparatus of FIG. 1,
FIG. 4 is a perspective plan view of the apparatus of FIG. 1,
FIGS. 5 to 14 are perspective views from various different angles showing the machine in different stages of operation,
FIG. 15 is a part sectional side elevation through the centre of the apparatus,
FIG. 15(a ) is a section on the line 2--2 of FIG. 15,
FIGS. 16 to 19 are similar to FIG. 15(a) and show various positions of the clutch mechanism of the apparatus,
FIGS. 20 and 21 are part sectional views of the apparatus showing operation of a skimmer or spatul
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