Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cereal-puffing – Corn-popper type
Patent
1991-06-17
1992-11-17
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cereal-puffing
Corn-popper type
99348, 366252, 366326, 366331, A23L 118
Patent
active
051633574
ABSTRACT:
A popcorn popper (10) for more effectively popping popcorn by agitating the popcorn during the heating process with a floating stirring system, the floating stirring system being designed to avoid jamming while the popcorn is being agitated and popped and to draw unpopped kernels to the center of the popping surface, including those kernels which tend to remain about the periphery. The popcorn popper (10) includes a popcorn receptacle (12) into which unpopped kernels are placed for popping. The lid assembly (14) includes a pair of doors (54 and 56) attached to a spine (40), the spine (40) being releasably secured to the popcorn receptacle (12). A stirring assembly (16) is provided for agitating the popcorn in the popcorn receptacle (12) and includes a handle (80) for gripping the popper (10), a cooperating drive shaft (94) and stirring shaft (124), and a floating stirring rod (138) for engaging the popcorn kernels, the floating stirring rod (138) being driven by the cooperating shafts (94 and 124). The floating stirring rod (138) is designed to push unpopped kernels toward the center of the popcorn receptacle (12) and to prevent unpopped kernels from remaining about the periphery.
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Felknor Wilson A.
Williams Michael L.
Felknor International, Inc.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Spisich Mark
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