Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Imperforate sheet or griddle type
Patent
1996-10-22
1997-11-18
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Imperforate sheet or griddle type
99353, 99407, A47J 3700, A47J 3706, A47J 3710, A21B 148
Patent
active
056876408
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an improvement of an apparatus for making pancakes. The present invention is more particularly concerned with a pancake batter dispensing device.
Pancake making is well-known to all and consists of pouring liquid batter on a hot, greased griddle; the batter, because of the heat from the griddle changes consistency becoming the finished product. The hot griddle is either a frying pan or a hotplate. In commercial pancake making, it is always a hotplate which is used and customers have been able to buy pancakes as such, the vendors making the pancakes to the order and in front of the customer. This type of pancake making is quite craftsman-like, the vendor using a simple hotplate on a platform, while the pancake batter is kept in a bowl where the batter is withdrawn little by little with a ladle which contains enough batter to make a pancake. Thus, the device used is neither practical, nor aesthetic, nor hygienic.
Therefore, the present invention attempts to resolve the inconveniences of the traditional devices and suggests a batter dispenser which is particularly simple, practical, reliable and hygienic; and that a device is equipped with such a dispenser.
Thus, the pancake batter dispensing device for an apparatus for making pancakes according to the invention includes a hotplate and is constituted by a container which contains the batter and includes a flow outlet with an opening and closing assembly and the means of controlling the flow of batter.
According to one of the corresponding characteristics, the pancake batter dispensing device is movable in relation to the hotplate, between a resting position in which the container is outside of the zone occupied by the hotplate, and a dispensing position in which the flow outlet is placed above and in the center of the hotplate, and according to the preferred device, it is pivotly mounted around a vertical axle on which it is retained by a retaining arm.
According to another corresponding characteristic, the flow outlet includes a stopper in a closed position where the flow of batter contained in the container is prevented, and which is movable to an open position which permits the flow of said batter, the movement of the said stopper being controlled by a control means including a handlever linked to the stopper by a transmission device, which includes, for example, a transverse axle connected to a handlever, the transverse axle being linked to a vertical shaft connected to the stopper.
Furthermore, the invention is also concerned with an apparatus for making pancakes which includes a dispensing device and a work unit constituted by a platform which includes at least one opening in which at least one heating mechanism is fitted, the said apparatus including a lower housing which houses the heating mechanism and includes a sliding drawer for eventual recovery of excess batter and drippings caused by cooking which are scraped off after the pancake is made. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the device includes refrigeration means for refrigeration of the container of batter which introduces, it is well-understood, an additional advantageous improvement in the matter of hygiene; that which permits a better conservation of the batter and stops the eventual development of bacteria. For this purpose, the container is surrounded by a coil in which circulates a refrigerated fluid, like, for example, a refrigeration unit.
Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will be disclosed in the description which follows with regard to the following drawings which are given only as examples and not for limitation.
FIGS. 1 through 5 illustrate an apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view, the batter dispenser being in a resting position.
FIG. 2 is a frontal view, the batter dispenser being in the center position of distribution.
FIG. 3 is a top view illustrating more particularly the possible movement of the dispenser.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view according to IV--IV of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5
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