Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1989-09-13
1991-04-30
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99357, 99407, 99511, A41J 3712
Patent
active
050108050
ABSTRACT:
A potato chip maker comprises a heated container having a cover. The container encloses a two-piece basket including a separately supported bottom wall and a side wall. Both walls are suspended from a shaft centrally depending from the cover.
The shaft is driven from outside the container by a crank through a one-way clutch and may be stepped around as the crank is pivoted back and forth over a blade in the cover. The crank has means to hold a potato which is cut into chips and other shapes by being brought back and forth across the blade. Because of the rotation of the basket, successive chips land in separate areas of the basket and do not contact and stick to each other. After the chips are cooked the basket is manually drawn upwardly above the oil for a centrifugal draining spin as the crank is again manipulated. Thereafter the bottom wall of the basket is raised separately from the side wall to a level at least as high as the top of the side wall. At this position the bottom wall is in line with the bottom of an opening in the side cover of the container. The opening may have a "spout" angled tangent to the container and in the direction of most natural spin of the basket. The basket assembly is then spun by the crank to eject finished chips out of the opening in the side or the cover of the container.
The apparatus of the invention also has more general application. For instance, in the cooking of French fries, other vegetables, fish, chicken, etc. the basket may be raised above the oil, drained and cranked around to centrifically spin off the residual oil.
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Hoopes Dallett
Simone Timothy F.
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